Example sentences of "[verb] been of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Locke 's discussion of personal identity , which was added in the second edition of the Essay on the suggestion of Molyneux , has been of lasting interest to philosophers . |
2 | The staple crop has for centuries been rice , and wet-rice agriculture has been of crucial significance in the evolution of Japanese society . |
3 | The growth of labour-only sub-contracting has been of mutual benefit to both employers and employees . |
4 | Indeed , their use of common law has been of especial importance in outlining and protecting certain rights of the individual . |
5 | Section 4 assistance to the industry has tripled from £1 million to nearly £33 million during the same period and has been of great advantage to the economy of Wales . |
6 | I am also grateful for the continuing support of the other Board members , particularly Michael Lunn who has been of great assistance to me in his capacity of Deputy Chairman . |
7 | Again the design of the sea-lion enclosure has been of great help in the management of these attractive marine mammals . |
8 | I am a family man , and mine has been of great help to me . |
9 | Although he admits having joined the authority as a complete outsider to the health service , his wide experience in the business world has been of great help . |
10 | ‘ He has been of great service to the Reich , ’ Himmler said . |
11 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
12 | Quiet and reserved he may have been , but his determination to succeed has been of great importance to his colleagues , both on and off the field . |
13 | The distinction between blending inheritance and particulate inheritance has been of great importance in the history of evolutionary ideas . |
14 | Over recent years , the parish has been of great interest archaeologically and excavations have revealed signs of occupation from neolithic man to the Middle Ages . |
15 | Sir , — It has been of great interest for me to read of small company audits in recent issues , and especially the approaches of other members . |
16 | ‘ This knowledge has been of great use . |
17 | But one may also say , from the fact that this has needed to be discussed — and from the fact that , as I say , throughout the greater part of Christendom women have not been ordained — it would be difficult to argue that the fact that this religion has had at its centre a male figure has been of little significance . |
18 | But staff here agree the assessment has been of little value . |
19 | However , it seems plausible that this source of energy has been of little importance in the past because Jupiter is so very massive that it probably formed very hot , though Jupiter may now be sufficiently cool for helium separation to have recently become significant , or for it to become significant in the relatively near future . |
20 | The first is that the social purpose framework — of raising collective working-class consciousness through critical , liberal educational processes — has been of central importance in the development of community adult education practice in Britain . |
21 | Although I am anxious to avoid entering into aesthetic theory or acting theory to any large extent it has to be conceded that the topic I have been tackling here , the logical relationship between emotion occurring and emotion described has been of central interest to aestheticians and acting theorists alike . |
22 | We apply such a combination here to an issue which has been of central interest to urban sociology : the state , its concentration of power , and its relation to people 's daily lives . |
23 | Gozitan wine is cheap but just recently has been of variable quality . |
24 | However the research has been of variable quality , there are conflicting findings , and the full implications for practice remain unclear . |
25 | Contract law has been of major importance in underpinning the market , although other areas of law have also had a bearing . |
26 | At present any member of the public can consult it all day long , all year round , and there is no doubt that it has been of invaluable help not only to scholars but also to the art trade . |
27 | The government-run NORP is still in operation today , however the observation that this programme is not mentioned in much of the post-1985 literature on oral rehydration therapy in Bangladesh , suggests that it has been of limited value to the people of Bangladesh . |
28 | As lack of resources has been a perennial problem since the beginning the boost given to the financial status of the BDA by the patronage of The Princess of Wales has been of incalculable value . |
29 | The political moment — that period when moral attitudes are transformed into formally political action — can be of key importance in nuancing the regulation of sexuality , and at crucial times a moral schema has been of prime significance in political propaganda . |
30 | This ambiguity — not yet fully dispelled — has been of immense importance both to the international community and to Japan herself . |