Example sentences of "[adv] to [be] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few Tit for Tat individuals do n't meet each other often enough to be of mutual benefit . |
| 2 | Break 's conclusion was that the net effect of taxation rates ‘ be it disincentive or incentive , is not large enough to be of great economic or sociological significance ’ . |
| 3 | Nobody knows , precisely enough to be of scientific or medical use , how much radiation was released into the air , how far it spread , and what the original doses received by people underneath it might have been . |
| 4 | It was this sort of situation the Agency committee had in mind in justifying its activities because ‘ provincial associations have become inert and inefficient ’ with the result that local groups concluded ‘ their own individual exertions were too little sustained by those of similar bodies elsewhere to be of real utility ’ . |
| 5 | The overlap between tort and contract should be looked for particularly in problems involving the negligent carriage of passengers by rail , road or sea , and the sale ( or repair ) of goods or houses that turn out not to be of merchantable quality or reasonably fit and that cause physical injury to the buyer ( or owner ) . |
| 6 | Jan. 1587 , lie bound to good behaviour Elizabeth Watson of Halling 20 shillings and William Symons 10 shillings , also Henry Bray , Yeoman 10 shillings , all of Halling to appear at the next quarter sessions at Maidstone and in the meanwhile to be of good behaviour . |
| 7 | The aim is to contribute to anthropological understanding of the incest taboo and also to be of practical use to the therapeutic team . |
| 8 | The temple ritual turned out to be of passing significance to Judaism . |
| 9 | But they turn out to be of Ancient History , so the flies blunder moodily against the parlour window beyond which the June sun ripens tempting dinners at roadsides and down by the strong-smelling beach ; day after day after day . |
| 10 | Many of the boundaries surrounding the village earthworks have been sectioned , and surprisingly some have turned out to be of prehistoric and Roman date . |
| 11 | Like the absence of dilation in the pupils following a head injury , this apparently small , perhaps even seemingly trivial , symptom turns out to be of crucial importance . |
| 12 | If it does turn out to be of general significance at a variety of scales it will imply that the increased environmental stress associated in some way with regressions promotes an increase in extinction rate and corresponding vacation of ecological niches , with a consequent opportunity for new species to establish themselves . |
| 13 | They may turn out to be Of equal value to those who do . |
| 14 | That will turn out to be of huge significance for the action of chapter 4 . |
| 15 | Nisbet , with his first goal of the season , ultimately revived Rangers ' European ambitions and no matter how fortuitous his strike was , it may yet turn out to be of inestimable value to an Ibrox team who clung on bravely in the closing stages . |
| 16 | Muriel was favoured by all three partners , but the comments of her present employer turned out to be of particular importance . |
| 17 | These anomalous properties of water may turn out to be of considerable importance in the preparation of homoeopathic remedies . |
| 18 | And it certainly turned out to be of considerable scientific interest . |
| 19 | It has yet to be of proven value , but studies are currently in progress . |
| 20 | The association maintains that a full family history has proved over and over again to be of vital importance . |
| 21 | The lexicon system provided with the ANLT is sufficiently large however to be of comparable size to that used in the probabilistic system . |
| 22 | This attitude was also responsible for a new horological invention that was ultimately to be of far-reaching social significance . |
| 23 | The stylistic originality of the novel , although remarkable in itself , was judged ultimately to be of secondary importance . |