Example sentences of "[verb] be of [adj] importance [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But new questions about the relations of language and what language represents are of great importance to our understanding of Renaissance culture . |
| 2 | Indeed , their use of common law has been of especial importance in outlining and protecting certain rights of the individual . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The distinction between blending inheritance and particulate inheritance has been of great importance in the history of evolutionary ideas . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Contract law has been of major importance in underpinning the market , although other areas of law have also had a bearing . |
| 7 | Inevitably , priorities also shifted as a result of civil strife , which has been of fundamental importance to at least twelve of sub-Saharan Africa 's forty-one countries . |
| 8 | This issue has been of particular importance within central government in recent years as the traditional task of the civil service — that of offering objective , impartial advice — has come under scrutiny . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Again , ‘ The possibility of this universal love and joy in all that exists is of supreme importance for the conduct and happiness of life , and gives inestimable value to the mystic emotion , apart from any creeds which may be built upon it . |
| 12 | I now wish to consider something that I believe is of acute importance to every Member of the House and to millions of people beyond it — the negotiations in which we are currently engaged on the intergovernmental conferences . |
| 13 | Yet reading is of vital importance in language learning : it is through reading that children can acquire not only new vocabulary and structures , but a real ‘ feel ’ for the language . |
| 14 | It is an example of his assiduous , hard-working and caring role as a constituency Member that he has raised this matter which he feels is of great importance to his constituents . |
| 15 | The foreign policy issues on which the left fought were of great importance to the activists but of relatively little salience to the mass of the working class , while nationalisation had faded in popularity — quite understandably , given the failure to develop a popular democratic alternative to conventional managerial practice in the nationalised industries , and to develop a coherent set of criteria for allocating resources with which to counter the charge that they were ‘ inefficient loss-makers ’ . |
| 16 | If the person is considered to have been of outstanding importance to the nation then days of mourning might be decreed . |
| 17 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 18 | It had been of considerable importance to the development of the District 's confidence and reputation in East Anglia in the early twenties . |
| 19 | The requirement that wrappers should be sent was of great importance to the Nestle Co. ; there would have been no point in their simply offering records for 1s. 6d. each . |
| 20 | This observation is necessary not because the lines quoted are of great importance to her poetry , but to give a balanced view of her own conflicts as a domestic servant . |
| 21 | Declining costs of information have been of critical importance in spurring the international growth of service firms and the service functions within manufacturing firms . |
| 22 | The rapidity of Japan 's economic and political transformation and the enduring influence of Tokugawa practices and ideas into this century mean that in Japan , as in other late industrializers such as the USSR , agricultural issues and the impact of the rural sector have been of crucial importance throughout the past 150 years . |
| 23 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |