Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good response to training was associated with improved squeeze duration in our patients , but increased conidence in mastering anorectal function may also have been of some benefit . |
| 2 | At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance . |
| 3 | There 's no doubt that the street-wisdom of the English forwards has been of huge value to them . |
| 4 | The ability to help or to harm was not the least of the tools in the politician 's inventory , and it may indeed have been of greater value than some of the more troublesome varieties of patronage , where a favour for one could easily anger others who were disappointed . |
| 5 | The controversies that have since arisen are of threefold origin . |
| 6 | Yet reading is of vital importance in language learning : it is through reading that children can acquire not only new vocabulary and structures , but a real ‘ feel ’ for the language . |
| 7 | Gozitan wine is cheap but just recently has been of variable quality . |
| 8 | Any landowners who had been successful in this kind of enterprise would certainly have been of immediate interest to Paulus in his search for enemies of the State , as exploiters of pagan superstition . |
| 9 | Most of the exceptional solutions that have been explicitly obtained are of algebraic type D , although the solutions of Feinstein and Ibañez are algebraically general . |