Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] [prep] great " in BNC.
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1 | However , the fact that the issue was raised at all by a US President , and in such an unequivocal manner , was widely considered to be of great significance . |
2 | One which I found to be of great value in my business life , until the advent of decimalisation , was learnt in Standard Four , in the usual sing-song fashion . |
3 | Following her arrival , she obtained a temporary job as a nurse in the Hospital of Hope , and this situation was destined to be of great use , not least to her future husband . |
4 | His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades . |
5 | Water quality does not appear to be of great concern to these hardy fish , although an approximate simulation of Amazonian habitats does encourage them to exhibit better coloration . |
6 | The United States seemed to be in great shape . |
7 | You are going to be in great danger until you have positive news of Clarion Call . |
8 | The tone of Tithonus ' words seem to be of great regret and self lamenting . |
9 | The continued marketing of products of dubious provenance , dubious efficacy , and dubious quality could bring discredit to a new approach to stopping smoking that seems to be of great potential benefit . |
10 | Employment prospects for electrical engineers are excellent due to the ever-extending applications of electronics , and Edinburgh 's graduates continue to be in great demand . |
11 | ‘ Your kitchens obviously continue to be in great demand , ’ Ashley said . |
12 | There is no doubt that gas has proved to be of great benefit to the Netherlands but as in the case of the UK , with its North Sea oil bonanza , various consequences of hydrocarbon wealth , such as a strengthening home currency , tended to precipitate industrial decline in some sectors of the economy and in the case of the Netherlands , the costs of developing a gas infrastructure outweighed the return for some years . |
13 | The items I have found on such sites have proved to be of great interest , and I have been logging them down very carefully . |
14 | It has proved to be of great popular interest and audiences of more than 200 people have attended the series of lectures on ‘ Studying the Scottish Home ’ , which were held in the Royal Museum of Scotland this winter . |
15 | In practice the phenothiazines and lithium proved to be of great importance in managing schizophrenia and mania , respectively , and in helping to restore many patients to everyday life . |
16 | The Kingman Report proved to be of great value to my Working Group . |
17 | This disturbing event proved to be of great significance , since it taught me never to allow ideas to become rooted in the mind . |
18 | And this problem of information usability continues to be of great concern : |
19 | Nevertheless , among the middle class , there were few institutions so revered as the schools , and their influence in clubs was held to be of great consequence as reformers regularly called for public-school men to come forward to work in the clubs . |