Example sentences of "is of [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same implications attach to the playing of games or the membership of clubs and so on , although what is of even more interest are the ‘ unwritten ’ rules which underwrite the more formal , quasi-legal , ones . |
| 2 | This is of even more moment if , instead of acts of real violence , displays of weapons or aborted action-sequences are produced within a ritual framework . |
| 3 | Whilst this may be attractive for the marketing companies it is of very little help to the consumer . |
| 4 | ‘ A copy of the letter is of very little use to our scientific experts . ’ |
| 5 | Robert Sharpe , for example , quotes from a major review by the toxicologists Zbinden and Flury-Roversi : ‘ For the recognition of the symptomatology of acute poisoning in man , and for the determination of the human lethal dose , the LD50 is of very little value ’ ( 1989 : 104 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Believe me , Alice , it is of very little value , ’ Félix interrupted her . |
| 7 | But her evidence by itself is of very little value . |
| 8 | It needs to be emphasised that in marking intonation , only stressed syllables are marked ; this implies that intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit and that the pitch of unstressed syllables is either predictable from that of stressed syllables or is of so little importance that it is not worth marking . |
| 9 | This rationale , however , is of considerably less significance now . |
| 10 | For a philosopher , whether an idea is logical or illogical is very important , but for an historian of ideas this concern is of relatively little significance . |
| 11 | For example , whilst advertising is very important in reaching out to consumer markets , it is of relatively little significance to industrial markets , where personal selling is the most popular method . |
| 12 | Like ‘ mere ’ compatibility , ‘ mere ’ incompatibility is of relatively little interest : the fact that affix and volcano are incompatibles is not specially informative . |
| 13 | It has been argued that death-feigning in natural circumstances is of comparatively little use and far too risky to become a major defence strategy . |
| 14 | At the presentation , Sir Humphry did not pass up the chance to impress upon the business world the great value of science to their endeavours : ‘ Science , gentlemen , is of infinitely more importance to a state than may at first sight appear possible ; for no source of wealth and power can be entirely independent of it ; and no class of men are so well able to appreciate its advantages as that to which I am addressing myself . |
| 15 | In the visual arts , for example , I believe that the work of Barnet Newman is of immeasurably more value than that of Andy Warhol . |
| 16 | From the user 's point of view , the source of a requested item is of far less interest than speed of supply . |