Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In relation to what the hon. Member for Walsall , North ( Mr. Winnick ) said about the letters that I receive , very few of them to date , particularly since we have been televised , have been about bad behaviour in the House — rather the reverse — and I wish it to remain that way . |
| 2 | Lending Services , as the headquarters of the regional library system in Scotland , has been as active participant in VISCOUNT since its inception in 1985 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Again the design of the sea-lion enclosure has been of great help in the management of these attractive marine mammals . |
| 5 | The distinction between blending inheritance and particulate inheritance has been of great importance in the history of evolutionary ideas . |
| 6 | In Harry 's case , a pre-retirement course could have been of great value in encouraging him to accept his impending retirement and helping him decide how to redirect his energies before he finished working . |
| 7 | Whig Jacobitism , however , appears to have been of minimal significance in Scotland . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The staple crop has for centuries been rice , and wet-rice agriculture has been of crucial significance in the evolution of Japanese society . |
| 10 | Indeed , their use of common law has been of especial importance in outlining and protecting certain rights of the individual . |
| 11 | Of course quality of care has always been of professional concern in the NHS , but it was firmly placed on managerial agendas by the Griffiths management reforms in 1983 and given a substantial boost by WFP . |
| 12 | Declining costs of information have been of critical importance in spurring the international growth of service firms and the service functions within manufacturing firms . |
| 13 | Contract law has been of major importance in underpinning the market , although other areas of law have also had a bearing . |
| 14 | The successful rider and breeder , Henry Wynmalen , through his kind and intuitive approach to the handling and management of horses , has no doubt been of tremendous influence in England , Australia , and New Zealand , in reinforcing humane and commonsense ways of caring for and training horses , and in illustrating the greater pleasure and success produced by using such methods . |
| 15 | The resulting report was most constructive and has been of significant value in defining the Group 's plan of action in relation to HS&E initiatives . |
| 16 | They have been extremely efficient and effective in carrying out their onerous tasks , and they 've been of enormous assistance in ensuring the smooth running of this enquiry , and indeed it has run smoothly . |
| 17 | MIND has been of enormous importance in widening understanding of the social aspects of the problem of mental disorder and stimulating progressive work in this held . |
| 18 | Despite these difficulties , Foucault 's work has been of considerable influence in recent explorations of sexuality , and there are two areas which seem of particular significance . |
| 19 | The work of SCONUL in improving access to theses has been of considerable benefit in the communication of research results , but some work still remains . |
| 20 | However , they have been of considerable value in that they have challenged the assumptions of many gerontologists and policy makers and forced a closer examination of our knowledge about health and ageing in later life . |
| 21 | The health care issue had been of growing concern in the USA both because of its cost ( 12 per cent of GNP compared with around 8 per cent for most other industrialized countries ) , and its effect of binding employees to their employers through the fear of losing their health insurance , thereby making the job market less flexible and deterring people from starting new businesses . |
| 22 | How texts achieve their effects has been of particular significance in the teaching of literature , including drama . |
| 23 | In Japan , the role of MITI has been of particular importance in vertically co-ordinating enterprises in the achievement of longer-term , macro-economic , industry-wide planning ( Dore , 1986 ) . |
| 24 | The ethnographic data which Marxist anthropologists discuss under the headings " modes of production " and " relations of production " are of central importance in any kind of holistic , functionalist analysis . |
| 25 | It is considered that the self concept and the values a manager holds are of central importance in understanding motivation . |
| 26 | In fact , media education has often developed in a very explicit way concepts which are of general importance in English . |
| 27 | At this season by far the largest numbers are found in Chichester and Pagham Harbours , in both of which flocks of 100 or more are of regular occurrence in July and August ; the highest count recorded between 1964 and 1976 was a total of 295 on 20 August 1967 . |
| 28 | Corrosion , flammability , toxicity , governmental restrictions , temperature considerations , air sensitivity etc. , are of major importance in the selection of appropriate packaging . |
| 29 | Recent evidence suggests that phospholipids are of major importance in biliary pathophysiology . |
| 30 | Both of these pictures throw retrospective light on some of the problems faced in the Demoiselles ; and although , once again , neither of them is truly Cubist , they are of great significance in the emergence of the style . |