Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb mod] [be] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It now seems that the time of injection may be of crucial importance in determining the effects of melatonin . |
| 2 | While this survey has been concerned with public libraries , co-operation potentially encompasses a wide range of institutions , and an INSET network that concerned itself with training across the whole spectrum of librarianship would be of maximum value . |
| 3 | While the power of dismissal may be of limited use , where the government has been able to appoint a new rail chairman , it has the opportunity to shape a management team more in tune with its thinking . |
| 4 | ‘ The withdrawal from ERM and the subsequent devaluation of sterling should be of particular benefit to Scotland because of the higher propensity to export . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you feel your study of statistics will be of long-term benefit to you in the job market ? ’ |
| 6 | So massive a change of emphasis must be of fundamental significance , not only to the anthropologist and the social historian , but to the child psychologists , psychiatrists and psychotherapists whose very existence as a group depends upon the climate of opinion which regards their professional skills as valuable and necessary , and which places them on an equal footing in social esteem with the more anciently respected callings of the paediatrician and the pedagogue . |
| 7 | The bill of quantities may be of limited use because many items of the work will be presented in a summarised form . |
| 8 | Standard definitions of use would be of significant value when considering consents . |
| 9 | [ more calmly ] I am now convinced that nothing but religious considerations and a resolution to watch over the very first appearances of evil can be of sufficient weight to keep steady to his good purpose a vain young man . |
| 10 | A work on the birds of Europe might be of limited scientific value , as Gould himself confessed — it could hardly uncover any startling revelations — but it would be bound to attract the crucial number of subscribers . |
| 11 | The most immediate practical benefits are likely to be in foreign language teaching , where clear statements of the rules of gender would be of great value . |
| 12 | This is because classical beams of radiation can be of arbitrary weakness . |
| 13 | Expressed in the Dreikaiserbund and in the hands of a Bismarck , the self-interest of monarchs could be of European significance as a force for peace . |
| 14 | But in advising that the switched cable links into homes should be of narrow band width coaxial cable rather than optical fibre , the information-technology panel was being short sighted , according to some observers . |
| 15 | In this situation , age-regression under hypnosis can be of immense value , allowing patients to free-float back under their own control to any past relevant events with which they feel they can cope , but not forcing the issue in any way . |
| 16 | In contrast , generation of exon-enriched probes from YACs will be of great interest to identify new genes located in regions of medical importance . |
| 17 | Welford Beaton thought that its examination of the progress of cotton from field to factory would be of great educational value and he urged distributors to put the film into every motion-picture theatre in the world . |
| 18 | He had studied closely the threat posed by a reorganized Wednesday side but insisted that his own presence at Sheffield would be of psychological value to Arsenal on the Saturday . |
| 19 | The other side of the reactivity coin is that change induced in respondents by evaluation may be of positive benefit . |