Example sentences of "[be] of [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , under Hugh MacLennan , he was able to form his judgment and turn his phrases under the eye of a skilful novelist , in Louis Dudek 's adroit hands he was able to fashion and test his poetic acumen to the full ; both were to be of absorbing interest to him . |
| 2 | But its disappearance will be of serious concern to the growing medium-sized business needing a serious injection of equity to continue to fulfil its potential and also the venture capitalist who may always have seen it as a desired exit route for an investment . |
| 3 | The miniscule middle-class membership was insignificant as a group , but the survival of the publishing arm of the organization and the influence of the society on Arnold Leese were to be of crucial significance to the development of racial fascism in Britain . |
| 4 | In particular , since the socialisation undergone by a human being in the early years of its life will obviously be of crucial influence in affecting the attitudes and behaviour of the social adult , then the family , as the first human group an individual in any society usually belongs to , is clearly a socialising agency of major importance . |
| 5 | It now seems that the time of injection may be of crucial importance in determining the effects of melatonin . |
| 6 | The former may well be of crucial importance in relation to ethnic minorities in the next decade , as the numbers of the very old in these groups increases . |
| 7 | Education can thus be of crucial importance in preventing violations . |
| 8 | This will be of crucial importance in 1992 when Common Market deregulation leads to open competition in Europe and a more mobile labour market . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Clearly it will be of crucial importance in any er court proceedings because the court will have to decide whether or not an auditor was in breech of his or her duty having regard to what is on the face of the statute . |
| 11 | This apparently insignificant detail was to be of fateful importance for all subsequent human cultural and psychological evolution because it provided the first , albeit rather minimal , check on the egoism and mutual antagonism of males . |
| 12 | Whatever you do at least be sure to make it stupendously high ; let it be of all columns in the world the most lofty . ’ |
| 13 | ( These diets could be said to have been half-right , in that they did cut out refined carbohydrates , but unfortunately without adding fibre-rich carbohydrate foods which we now know to be of such help to slimmers . ) |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The pressure of the streets was to be of decisive importance in the liberal revolution of 1820 , when it was organized by the secret societies . |
| 16 | These concepts came to be of prime importance with the introduction of non-abelian groups into topology , specifically via the fundamental group of a topological space . |
| 17 | It is clear that anything which affects the mind will be of prime importance in this ( see Chapter 1 ) as also will be anything that affects the person as a whole . |
| 18 | If the relationship had been especially close and happy , and if parents have continued to be of prime importance in a daughter 's life , then the shock will be all the greater . |
| 19 | ‘ And the Lord Henry Percy and his lady in especial greet your Grace , and pray you be of good cheer in this happy news , for that the price set upon these Scots prisoners , such as belong to the Lord Henry , shall be at your Grace 's disposal in the matter of the redeeming of their beloved kinsman , Sir Edmund Mortimer , out of his captivity in Wales . |
| 20 | The actual state of the market is that it 's flooded with property , so we have a case where supply has increased , demand is still at a fairly low level , so we 're having to be very honest with our clients , our vendors , and let them know that the situation is that their property has to be of good value in the market place . |
| 21 | They would seem to be of integral importance to any manager or coach handling black sportsmen , yet few theorize at any level other than the physiological or , more occasionally , the psychological . |
| 22 | The emphasis of this ‘ directed ’ ( or controlled ? ) research , it was announced , ‘ is to be on pragmatic , problem-solving enquiries ’ ( i.e. policy-orientated research ) , which , it was explained , ‘ would be of cost-effective advantage to the force ’ . |
| 23 | The companies act and the act on the stock exchange are considered to be of primary importance for the creation of a free market economy . |
| 24 | Heeding Lady Barber 's wish that the ‘ purchases for the Collection shall be of that standard of quality required by the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection ’ , the Trustees have succeeded in acquiring over the years a group of paintings , drawings , sculptures , and objet d'art of exceptional merit , a number of them undisputed masterpieces . |
| 25 | The following checklist will help the ‘ interviewer ’ be of genuine help to you . |
| 26 | No , but the point is that to in all our cases to provide a community resource which is going to be of genuine use to artists and the general public , erm one has to take care that the standards of work and the standards of community facilities are as high as they possibly can be if you want to attract maximum usage , and what we will be trying to do in circumstances like this encourage as many people to come up to the Gardener at weekends during the summer and have as enjoyable a time as possible . |
| 27 | The book is comprehensively illustrated with both contemporary and modern photographs , backed up with maps giving the locations of crash sites , which will be of invaluable use to hill walkers/aircrafts historians for generations to come . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | Rosie Fortinbras had proved to be of minimal use as a source of information . |
| 30 | If the Government can seriously contemplate investing £3,000 million in a company employing 100,000 people , they should also be prepared to start the discussion by studying the proposition with a view to supporting a project which could be of tremendous advantage to the nation as a whole . |