Example sentences of "the [noun sg] have [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority had been of wood and most of these were lost through fire . |
| 2 | Why his Lordship should have concluded that the facts did not give rise to the issue is unclear , but subsequent events have shown that the decision has been of much greater importance for the scope of the right of public meeting than his Lordship imagined it would be . |
| 3 | But staff here agree the assessment has been of little value . |
| 4 | However the research has been of variable quality , there are conflicting findings , and the full implications for practice remain unclear . |
| 5 | Even in countries where housing standards have improved immeasurably , and the promotion of safety in the home has been of long-standing concern , the problem of accidents is one of some magnitude . |
| 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 | In his first schoolboy poetry the theme had been of love withered and decayed — practically the last lines he ever wrote were of " the certainty of love unchanging " . |
| 8 | My Bible instruction to the lad had been of no avail . |
| 9 | No there was a vision and I think the , the Apostle had was of the third heaven |
| 10 | The standard model of local government since the war has been of multi-functional authorities with an elected council supervising the direct provision of services . |
| 11 | Over recent years , the parish has been of great interest archaeologically and excavations have revealed signs of occupation from neolithic man to the Middle Ages . |
| 12 | Doctors have not always welcomed the establishment of computer systems in hospitals — computers have often proved difficult to use , and the information has been of more use to managers than to clinicians . |
| 13 | The Judge held that the prosecution had been under a duty to disclose the video whether it had been demanded or not , that the view the camera had was of an area of the club that was relevant to the res gestae , that the tape would have contained matters of relevance to the defendants and that it was wrong for the police officer to have formed the view that it was of no relevance . |
| 14 | Most of the talk around the world has been of " stages " , as though these units , though of no defined dimensions , are the ultimate in stratigraphical correlation on a world-wide scale . |
| 15 | About half the planting under the scheme had been of broadleaved trees or native pinewoods . |
| 16 | At least one senior member , who for a time was delegated the task of convening its meetings , considered the panel to have been of little relevance in the first year or so : because the books were not on the shelves , so there was n't a great need for finding ways of stimulating the use of this material . |
| 17 | Although any one assignment which the company has is of short duration , the company itself continues in being , following up that assignment by another . |