Example sentences of "[noun pl] had be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His first feelings had been of shock and then fear . |
| 4 | All her fears had been of Adam dead , Adam never waking from his trance , Adam turned into an automaton . |
| 5 | If no organic being excepting man had possessed any mental power , or if his powers had been of a wholly different nature from those of the lower animals then we should never have been able to convince ourselves that our high faculties had been gradually developed . |
| 6 | From this she deduced that the earlier arrangements had been of hamlets with infields , but , following growth in population , settlements had been replanned on new sites with the coalescence of population and lands . |
| 7 | That particular snap prompted the memory , the afternoon returning as she stared at it — the sandwiches had been of marmite , Edward had found a hawk-moth caterpillar . |