Example sentences of "[prep] be [prep] special " in BNC.

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1 If you served at RAF Valley , Mona , Bodorgan , Llandrog , Penrhos , Hell 's Mouth , Llanbedr or Tywyn , or if you would like to know more of the aviation heritage of North Wales , you might well find Roy Sloan 's researches to be of special interest .
2 Worse , the end of communism removed Greece 's claim to be of special interest to the democracies of the West .
3 With the Soviet Union accounting for 33 per cent of Romania 's foreign trade , the visit to Moscow in May 1990 of Alexandru Margaritescu , then Minister of Foreign Trade , was seen to be of special significance .
4 Departments have agreed to notify the local planning authority of development proposals which are likely to be of special concern to the authority or to the public ; for example where there could be a very substantial effect on the character of a conservation area , or where there could be a significant planning impact , visually or otherwise , beyond the department 's own site .
5 Many of these buildings are now considered to be of special interest by current standards — particularly where they possess ‘ group value ’ — and are being added to the statutory lists as these are revised .
6 At this stage , services are liable to be restricted to those assumed to be at special risk' or whose circumstances warrant special priority ( p. 45 ) .
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