Example sentences of "be of [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife is travelling without a maid or nurse and I am of little use in a sickroom . ’ |
| 2 | The growth of labour-only sub-contracting has been of mutual benefit to both employers and employees . |
| 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 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 5 | Confidentiality for the client has always been of paramount importance within the CAB and is accepted by all workers as an essential part of their work . |
| 6 | The first defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the deputy judge had been wrong in law in holding that for the substituted section 9 ( b ) of the Wills Act 1837 to be satisfied the testator had to make his signature after making the dispositive provisions ; and ( 2 ) there was no sufficient evidence upon which the deputy judge could have found that the testator had not been of testamentary capacity at the time he had made and signed the alleged codicil on 18 April 1986 . |
| 7 | The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful . |
| 8 | ‘ Pray think of a right man wt out regard to recommendations , which hitherto have not been of great service to me in the like cases , ’ the duke suggested . |
| 9 | ‘ He has been of great service to the Reich , ’ Himmler said . |
| 10 | Conflicts of both interest and duty are not new to the City of London ; indeed , they have traditionally been of great concern to financial market regulators . |
| 11 | K2 had the necessary experience of working with Chameleon and could also boast skills in software design that have , according to Stan Taylor , senior manager of European information systems at Intergraph , ‘ been of great benefit to the company . ’ |
| 12 | The nature and extent of housing programmes in the post-war years has therefore been of great significance for urban form , community life and degrees of individual happiness . |
| 13 | This , together with an appreciation of the steeper slopes , soil erosion and the local changes in level and aspect , make for a finer assessment of the subtler aspects which may have been of great significance to the original selector 's choice of site for the particular settlement under study . |
| 14 | I am a family man , and mine has been of great help to me . |
| 15 | Again the design of the sea-lion enclosure has been of great help in the management of these attractive marine mammals . |
| 16 | For the next eighty years the argument that a tunnel under the silver streak of the Channel would pose a major security problem held sway , although a tunnel would have been of great advantage to Britain during the First World War . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was there that I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs Stella Gawthrop , who has not only the distinction of being a pathfinder for the breed in the UK , but having emigrated to South Africa , has also been of great assistance to the newly formed clubs there . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The distinction between blending inheritance and particulate inheritance has been of great importance in the history of evolutionary ideas . |
| 23 | The council convener , Robert Gough , who presented a plaque to the crew , said it was with regret that they said goodbye to the squadron , which had been of great comfort to people in difficulty on land and sea . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | These two treatises gave classic expression to the opposing arguments about the eucharist , and they have been of great interest to theologians ever since . |
| 26 | The prisoner 's dilemma — a game where two players have to decide whether to co-operate with each other or cheat — has long been of great interest to economists . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later . |
| 29 | But such links remained tentative and seem to have been of little relevance to policy development even if the symbolism was important . |
| 30 | At least one senior member , who for a time was delegated the task of convening its meetings , considered the panel to have been of little relevance in the first year or so : because the books were not on the shelves , so there was n't a great need for finding ways of stimulating the use of this material . |