Example sentences of "been of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Bible instruction to the lad had been of no avail . |
| 2 | There were entire countries , reigns , religions , philosophical systems , centuries , species and schools of art contained in its files , which had been of no interest whatsoever to the human race since it emptied its records , museums and libraries into their Al dump bin . |
| 3 | She supports the Christian Democrats ( CDU ) , who until recently have been of no consequence at all in Lauchhammer . |
| 4 | ‘ If my memory serves me correct , it was you who declared that it had been of no consequence and to wipe it out , ’ he said , the adoring fiancé replaced by an aloof accuser . |
| 5 | As she grew up , her father had been of no account to her . |
| 6 | Of those it is worth singling out D. 32.95 and D. 33.2.34.1 , in which the jurist indicates ( in the first case implicitly , in the second explicitly ) that the use of the clause has turned out to have crucial consequences for the effectiveness of the testator 's will : for without it his will or some of its dispositions would have been of no force . |
| 7 | Or , if prototype wingflaps worked to break the animal 's fall , you can not say " Below a certain size the flaps would have been of no use at all " . |
| 8 | I think that one important strand in the rejection of feminism by many women has been a feeling that feminists are saying that their lives have been of no value , and that their activities and concerns have been trivial . |
| 9 | His first impression of Galvone had been of a mobster , but Newman had met other reasonably honest Americans holding high positions who had made the same initial impression . |
| 10 | Lately , he had been of a mind to trace his son Arnold Thomas , but until such a day as he might be fortunate in that respect , he had no one except the lily-livered David . |
| 11 | A great deal of diversification has been of a conglomerate , ‘ unrelated ’ nature , but it seems hard to find any justification for unrelated diversification . |
| 12 | Saner , Engineer to the Weaver Navigation , in his report to the Royal Commission on Inland Navigations in 1906 mentions Foxton Lift and its costly foundations , which might have been greatly reduced had the subsoil been of a nature or had there been available experience such as that gained in the course of the project . |
| 13 | yes , I think it 's been of an assistance to the court yes , assistance to me that erm Mr has been at least only to of explain the background which erm is not entirely , not an easy matter , so er if it 's necessary I 'll give a certificate |
| 14 | The baby bulge birth cohorts have been of an age to have children for some time . |
| 15 | It had been a deep and tub-like pram , and they had used it to convey her from place to place long after she had been of an age to be confined in such a vehicle . |
| 16 | She had wanted to speak to Debbie after the others had left , and all the talk over lunch had been of the trip to the Tate . |
| 17 | Although in recent years total government capital spending has been of the order of £20 billion per annum , Brown and Jackson ( 1983 , p. 138 ) point out that this represents a real reduction of approximately one half over the past 20 years . |
| 18 | The total losses have been of the order of 25,000 , but the fact remains that there are still more than 140,000 people directly involved in the defence industry and more than 120,000 indirectly involved . |
| 19 | Now to the house itself , one of the early observers gives us a clue when mentioning the house he writes of the fine Elizabethan chimneys still standing , these I believe are those which collapsed in 1973 after having previously been lowered owing to their dangerous condition , on the collapse of these some fine timber framing was discovered in the older parts of the house showing considerable blackening , and Mrs Lingham informed me that vestiges of a gallery were discovered , and it was suggested that this part of the building may have been of the hall type . |
| 20 | Herluin might hold it against the boy that he had disgraced Ramsey not so much by attempting theft , but by making a botch of it , but Herluin had also been of the abbot 's party . |
| 21 | The audience were no surer of this than they had been of the song . |
| 22 | If Sinead had wanted to do a Benetton shocker , the photograph used would have been of the boy 's body . |
| 23 | Such success as it had from its first performance in 1936 onwards has been of the kind discouragingly dubbed as ‘ of esteem ’ . |
| 24 | Vamplew ( 1979:2f ) states that , of the five types of disorder classified by Mann and Pearce , ‘ all but remonstrance can be found at soccer grounds in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , though the majority of incidents appear to have been of the frustration or confrontation varieties ’ . |
| 25 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 26 | She went upstairs to change , thinking how proud Arnold would have been of the way she had coped with the water shortage . |
| 27 | Compulsory ‘ liberal studies ’ was , however , not to remain a distinctive feature of CNAA degrees as they had been of the Diploma in Technology . |
| 28 | Because the Directive is based on Articles 42 and 43 of the Treaty of Rome , MAFF has always been of the opinion that environmental measures can not be aided financially , since these two Articles relate solely to agricultural policy . |
| 29 | I have never been of the opinion that an artist is great simply because he works in New York or Paris . |
| 30 | Her superiors in pastoral studies had , on the whole , been of the opinion it was not merely officious but often dangerous to move a drunk from the place he had chosen to lie down into one where he had not . |