Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] be of [adj] importance " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a legend so old , discrepancies in dates can be expected and are of secondary importance . |
| 2 | There is a tendency in commercial organisations to regard the personnel function as being of secondary importance compared to production , finance and marketing . |
| 3 | When falsificationism was introduced as an alternative to inductivism in the previous chapter , falsifications , that is , the failures of theories to stand up to observational and experimental tests , were portrayed as being of key importance . |
| 4 | Essentially they wanted a consultancy service from a social worker who was basically a colleague sharing their frustrations and difficulties but also their joys and successes and recognising their own expertise and greater knowledge of detail ; a sounding-board off which to bounce ideas about how to solve a problem ; someone concerned about quality control , providing an inspectorial service so that the child 's interests could be safeguarded ( but this aspect they saw as being of prime importance at the approval and matching stage ) . |
| 5 | The State , albeit in an anti-metaphysical sense , was thus viewed as being of central importance . |
| 6 | The four areas identified as being of critical importance were : |
| 7 | All macro-level features which can not be made intelligible in this way are regarded as being of secondary importance to the outcome of the story . |
| 8 | As hon. Members may or may not recall , Conservative Members had a free vote , a conscience vote , because the Bill was regarded as being of sufficient importance to require people to make up their own minds . |
| 9 | The report nonetheless considers that some sort of control is necessary , and also favours the introduction of a legal pre-emption right on works of art regarded as being of national importance , and which risk leaving the country . |
| 10 | Monitoring of the state of and the changes in the environment is now universally recognized as being of profound importance to mankind ( Tickell 1986 , 1989 ) . |