Example sentences of "was [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This splendid achievement was due of course to exceptional wind conditions thrusting them along at the remarkable average speed of ninety miles per hour . |
| 2 | She was strong of wing and yet had about her a frailty that suggested illness . |
| 3 | He was tolerant of his brother Neil 's attempts to piggyback his way into the movies on the Connery name , and understanding of his mother 's very Scottish shame at his success ; she took to booking even her hair appointments in her maiden name . |
| 4 | Presbyterian in religion , he was tolerant of other sects , and supported proposals to abolish tithes and remodel the universities . |
| 5 | Eliot , who was tolerant of eccentrics as long as he was not expected to join their ranks , sometimes deplored the degree of ascetic zeal that was expected of the supporters . |
| 6 | I was expectant of something being done for me , it might even have been a creation of the DHSS . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , I can manage , ’ she replied positively , although she was apprehensive of being alone in the house . |
| 8 | And it was cruel of Teddy Taylor to cast into such a garden of refinement the used oil drum of a question about trains from Southend . |
| 9 | It was cruel of Miss Havisham to encourage me to hope , but I do n't think she meant to be unkind . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It was tactless of me . |
| 11 | She would continue to do that , for what was alive of Daniel was their past together and her memories of it ; to ignore her pledge , to reject their shared experience , would be to complete the work of the Nazis . |
| 12 | It was brazen of her . |
| 13 | ‘ It was rash of me to promise when I 'm constantly so strapped for cash . ’ |
| 14 | He was destructive of the other children 's toys and refused to have any personal belongings in his shared room in the home . |
| 15 | Having contemplated the relativity of all motions within the universe , Nicholas would have been astonished by any suggestion that a moving earth was destructive of a Christian world-view . |
| 16 | But although in that house there was eight of us |
| 17 | Initially she was supportive of the continuing claim to office of President Barre whose overthrow she did not at that stage recognise . |
| 18 | Jiang Zemin was supportive of the reform line , but was regarded as a political lightweight lacking deep roots in the party . |
| 19 | It was presumptuous of me , but I had to know , and now I had the opportunity . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it was unnecessary of him to say it — I 've spoken to an analyst about it and I 'll probably grow out of it , when I 'm bigger . |
| 21 | One was Eadric of Mercia himself . |
| 22 | The infant mortality rate in 1936 in Glasgow in that part of the city was ⅗ of the births . |
| 23 | The effect on the administrative classes was greatest of all . |
| 24 | I was shy of undressing in front of adults . |
| 25 | A heroine of popular culture in Britain and heralded as ‘ the White Queen of Okoyong ’ , she was shy of the publicity greeting her infrequent visits to her homeland and only reluctantly agreed to lecture to raise money and consciousness for pioneer missionary work . |
| 26 | It was very cold in the room , for Iskandara had given orders that a fire was not to be lit there as a matter of course and Alexandra was shy of asking Mary or little Annie to bring up a bucket of coals for her . |
| 27 | She felt the heat so the idea of swimming appealed to her but she was shy of exposing her swelled body in a bathing costume . |
| 28 | She had believed Thomas was shy of the Dane , but now she realised that the child gave nothing out because he received nothing back in return . |
| 29 | Was each of them waiting for the other to make the next move ? |
| 30 | There was an unspoken and unrecorded understanding between the two teams of far-divided intelligence men … anything was possible of those buggers he 'd inherited . |