Example sentences of "[been] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you say what the best things are from your drama school experience and what has been of most value to you during your first year in the profession ? |
| 2 | Like many graduates stimulated by their experiences , he discovered that although he had been of sufficient calibre to acquire the offer of the scholarship in the first place , he now faced the inevitable service obsession with a rejection of academic prowess in preference for ‘ practical skills in the real world ’ ( ibid. 157 ) : |
| 3 | Alas , it was said to have been of not much practical value . |
| 4 | He personified the pre-war amateur at his peak , a kindly engaging man who was well placed to have been a major influence in the game had he been of a more forceful character . |
| 5 | His fantasy would more probably have been of Robyn as the first female , naked centre-forward for Birmingham City . |
| 6 | Inevitably , priorities also shifted as a result of civil strife , which has been of fundamental importance to at least twelve of sub-Saharan Africa 's forty-one countries . |
| 7 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 8 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 9 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 10 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 11 | His first feelings had been of shock and then fear . |
| 12 | Its chairman was John Grierson who had never been particularly interested in responding to the requirements of the commercial market-place , and production control was in the hands of John Baxter , a onetime director whose films had been of the prosaic but worthy variety . |
| 13 | By glimpses I learnt with awe and astonishment that he had once been of my age . |
| 14 | Locke 's discussion of personal identity , which was added in the second edition of the Essay on the suggestion of Molyneux , has been of lasting interest to philosophers . |
| 15 | Quiet and reserved he may have been , but his determination to succeed has been of great importance to his colleagues , both on and off the field . |
| 16 | If it is stretching the imagination to describe any West Indian fast bowler as a gentle giant he is nevertheless mild-mannered and easy-going , and it is significant that while the likes of Croft and Marshall were doing unpleasant things to batsmen 's heads , the damage that Garner inflicted was mostly confined to arms and hands ; obviously any broken bone is bad and obviously he sent down his share of bouncers , but there was never the suggestion that he was using his physical advantages maliciously ; six feet eight inches 12 metres ) tall and weighing seventeen stones ( 108 kilograms ) , the prospect of the carnage he might have caused had he been of an aggressive nature hardly bears thinking about . |
| 17 | Of all the wonderful cricketers to come from the West Indies , it is fair to say that five have been of outstanding importance . |
| 18 | For the next eighty years the argument that a tunnel under the silver streak of the Channel would pose a major security problem held sway , although a tunnel would have been of great advantage to Britain during the First World War . |
| 19 | My poetry had never been of so much practical use to me before . |
| 20 | Sampling theory has been of value in various areas of museum work , from assessing the long-term resources required for conservation treatment of the British Museum 's large collection of Babylonian clay tablets , to ensuring that a given ‘ kill rate ’ in insecticides used for paper conservation will provide effective treatment . |
| 21 | Faith had been of certain mind but easier to please . |
| 22 | These two treatises gave classic expression to the opposing arguments about the eucharist , and they have been of great interest to theologians ever since . |
| 23 | Could anti-Semitism , so pivotal in Hitler 's ‘ world view ’ , have been of only minor significance in forming the bonds between Führer and people which gave the Third Reich its popular legitimation and plebiscitary base of acclamation ? |
| 24 | If the person is considered to have been of outstanding importance to the nation then days of mourning might be decreed . |
| 25 | The successful rider and breeder , Henry Wynmalen , through his kind and intuitive approach to the handling and management of horses , has no doubt been of tremendous influence in England , Australia , and New Zealand , in reinforcing humane and commonsense ways of caring for and training horses , and in illustrating the greater pleasure and success produced by using such methods . |
| 26 | My Bible instruction to the lad had been of no avail . |
| 27 | Perhaps it 's no coincidence that some of your readings that have made the most indelible impression on your audiences have been of works like the Berg Three Orchestral Pieces , the Honegger Liturgique . |
| 28 | This was largely but not exclusively an obsession of Congregationalists , much as it had been of mediaeval bishops . |
| 29 | It had been of considerable importance to the development of the District 's confidence and reputation in East Anglia in the early twenties . |
| 30 | Sir James Matheson , who had made a fortune in the China trade , bought the Isle of Lewis in 1844 , and at least part of the large sums he spent there ( in addition to famine relief and assistance for emigration ) appears to have been of direct benefit to the islanders . |