Example sentences of "the [noun sg] have been 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | About half the planting under the scheme had been of broadleaved trees or native pinewoods . |
| 14 | 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 . |