Example sentences of "[verb] been of a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Foley 's mill was probably the first erected in the midlands , and may have been of a new design . |
| 2 | They might almost have been of a different species . |
| 3 | It is not at all unlikely that some pressure was put on women in these two key firms , but it may have been of a persuasive rather than an intimidating kind . |
| 4 | Even the Palestine Liberation Organisation ( PLO ) , though working to a different agenda from that of other critics of the official line , felt that the Libyan contribution to the Lockerbie disaster had been of a low-level technical nature . |
| 5 | The fact that they have been invited shows me how stone-cold almost sure Conrad Black had been of a Tory victory . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | President , congress we should applaud the work of the Health and Environment department at National Office and in supporting this service report we must go swiftly forward into wide-ranging discussions at all levels of the G M B. The publications they have produced have been of a consistent high standard and are very user-friendly . |
| 8 | During 1990 , only two or three ( c. 1% ) BGQs have been of a commercial nature and have been charged for . |
| 9 | Most of the studies of relationships between R&D and production in recent years have been of a qualitative and often anecdotal nature . |