Example sentences of "[vb mod] be of [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clarification of issues such as these should be of great significance to both business strategy and government policy . |
| 2 | The presence of Tracy Austin , America 's pig-tailed youngster of the late seventies , should be of great interest to the modern day tennis lover following her recent comeback exploits . |
| 3 | David Wray ( 1983 ) describes another program type which should be of great interest to the reading teacher . |
| 4 | The lessons learnt should be of great value to the analysis of other countries in the process of transition . |
| 5 | Play Therapy should be of great use to anyone involved in the care of children who might need counselling , and it would also be interesting reading for anyone working with children or interested in counselling them . |
| 6 | We have been liaising with those bodies who are surveying associated areas in this field , but the additional information we gather here should be of great use in future policy-making . |
| 7 | Facts selected should be of critical importance to understanding of a principle . |
| 8 | Instead of nutrient content per 100 g , the authorities have related their figures to average portion sizes , which should be of practical value to dietitians , health care workers and the food industry . |
| 9 | Why this should be of such importance in the minds of you and me , and all the others from the world of the nineteen-forties I do not know . |
| 10 | MITI believes that such exports should be of less concern to advocates of managed trade than consumer goods , because components increase the competitiveness — and therefore the export potential — of the industries that buy them . |
| 11 | ‘ The withdrawal from ERM and the subsequent devaluation of sterling should be of particular benefit to Scotland because of the higher propensity to export . |
| 12 | However , as it was intended that this study should be of particular use to the suppliers of information , it was therefore biased towards the first stage of environmental scanning ; that is , the gathering of information . |
| 13 | THE animals that live in caves , David Culver believes , should be of particular interest to biologists . |
| 14 | Obviously , in order that the trial should be of any value at all , both materials should be used in the way that will produce the best results . |
| 15 | It is corporate failures and the auditor 's role in them which should be of fundamental concern to professionals charged with protecting the public interest — not with their economic self-interest , which is a secondary issue in professionalised activity . |
| 16 | Obviously , all the team kites should be of identical design for aesthetic and performance reasons . |
| 17 | The maintenance of high academic quality , especially in a period of expansion , must be of paramount importance for this University and must not be prejudiced by inappropriate or excessive efficiency measures . |
| 18 | That must be of great concern to the yards which were not successful in the tendering process , whose problems will become similar to those that confronted Yarrow until this afternoon . |
| 19 | As the communal conscience is examined , in an avalanche of detail , after the death of little James Bulger , there are certain aspects of contributory neglect which must be of great concern to everyone . |
| 20 | But Tolkien would no doubt instantly have felt that Shakespeare had no copyright on the phrase , which must be of immemorial antiquity in English , ‘ as old as the hills ’ . |
| 21 | Only black-and-white prints are required ( min 8″ × 10″ , with camera and film speed quoted ) and must be of high quality for advertising reproduction purposes . |
| 22 | The item must be of sufficient quality to be displayed in a public collection whether national , local authority or university , and the owner has to agree to keep the object in the UK , preserve it and allow reasonable public access to it . |
| 23 | We have suggested that properly coordinated motility might be of crucial importance in promoting acid clearance , and could therefore be an unrecognised factor in the pathogenesis of duodenal ulceration . |
| 24 | Moreover , a secretary attached to a legation or an embassy and not to an individual minister or ambassador , and remaining at his post over a fairly long period , could become a valuable source of information about local conditions : this might be of great help to a new head of mission coming to a strange country of which he knew little . |
| 25 | An excellent comparison of Athenian and Spartan habits and philosophy is given by Thucydides , in the mouth of Pericles ( ii.39 ) : ‘ our city is open to the world , and we have no periodical deportations in order to Trevent people observing or finding out secrets which might be of military advantage to the enemy . ’ |
| 26 | In the high grade group , a Cox 's multivariate analysis was performed to identify which of the following variables such as age , extension to adjacent organs or serosal invasion , stage and mode of treatment ( surgery , chemotherapy , or the combination of both ) might be of independent significance in predicting mortality . |
| 27 | Were there any things that were given away , that might be of high value to the opposition , given away for less than nothing . |
| 28 | Hum. , 1908–13 ) for the purpose of giving graduates of the College opportunity to travel at such time in their careers as might be of most value to them either by enabling them to broaden their experience of other countries and their peoples or to carry out research . |
| 29 | ‘ Good luck , ’ he murmured , and then suggested that he might be of further help to her . |
| 30 | If you have any information which might be of special interest to our readers please send it to the Presbytery . |