Example sentences of "be of [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 One of the concepts which gained new prominence in the mid-1980s , and which was to be of concern to Labour traditionalists , was that of ‘ heterosexism ’ .
2 It says that , given Hongkong Bank 's good profits , ‘ its purchase of another less profitable bank is believed to be of concern to major shareholders ’ .
3 Huge grants of land to the church became rarer ( but so did the chances of resuming what had once been granted ) ; from the middle of the century , gifts were more likely to be of consuetudines from ecclesiastical lands or of other tolls and dues .
4 This should be of benefit to small businesses , since it is a cheap way of connecting single PCs and sharing expensive resources such as printers and fax modems .
5 Of course , Work Experience should be of benefit to young people in making career decisions and a good Work Experience report from an employer may be a reference in itself .
6 This is for two reasons : first , these strategies largely ignore the political conditions of their implementation , and second , they fail to answer the question of whether such a ‘ regeneration ’ is possible and whether , if possible , it can take place under conditions which will be of benefit to socialist politics .
7 In the long term , the use of ursodeoxycholic acid has been reported to be of benefit in primary sclerosing cholangitis , but the mechanism by which ursodeoxycholic acid exerts a beneficial effect is unknown .
8 Thymectomy has previously been reported to be of benefit in ulcerative colitis , but it is possible that it may also have a beneficial effect in Crohn 's disease .
9 Other workers have also found steroids to be of benefit in fibrotic overlap syndromes , and cyclophosphamide has been used with success to suppress fibrosis affecting the thyroid , face and orbit .
10 Self-consciously , I shifted the ground to literature , regretting that the emblems of alchemy were now too arcane to be of service to modern writers .
11 If the teacher had had no obvious part in planning or organising an activity , it was difficult to see what might be learnt from it that would be of help to other teachers .
12 It may be of significance to hon. Members with constituencies in the King 's Cross vicinity that , at the very least , the alternative Baxter scheme will be no less disruptive to homes , highways and places of work than the BR proposals .
13 The result is that the publicly available information resource that might be of relevance to strategic decision making presents an extremely confusing picture to the executive decision maker .
14 For grammar to be of relevance to English teaching , it should be :
15 The heterogeneous increase of urokinase type plasminogen activator in oesophageal and stomach carcinomas , together with the recently described association of urokinase type plasminogen activator in tissue extracts of breast carcinomas with aggressiveness and prognosis , may be of relevance to prognostic studies in oesophageal and gastric cancer .
16 The results will be of interest for descriptive and theoretical reasons .
17 The interest on offshore cash funds , building society and bank accounts is received gross , which will provide cash flow advantages for taxpayers and be of interest to low taxpayers as well as to certain non-taxpayers who are unable to obtain interest gross in the UK .
18 I suggest that he and his friends in Ealing , North — which he has represented so well for so many years — put together a festival that would be of interest to young people , and also to the important artists whom he mentioned .
19 A member of the Society has drawn attention to a point which arises in connection with the payment of sickness benefit under the National Insurance Acts which may be of interest to other members of the Society .
20 In addition , she undertook to research and deliver lectures on any medical aspects of history that were likely to be of interest to fellow members .
21 I am embarking on a number of projects which I hope to be of interest to fellow treasure hunters .
22 Gender in Society will be of interest to advanced level students wishing to study gender issues within a social science framework .
23 Political correspondence can be a vital source for political history , but for specifically sociological purposes there are likely to be few types of correspondence these days which would be easily available and which would be of value for social research .
24 This project will explore the strategies deployed by three institutions committed to developing more equitable staff policies and practices in the hope that illumination of particular change contexts will be of value to other institutions wishing to make similar changes .
25 The research aims to explore the possibilities of trip chain analysis sufficiently to establish in what ways the technique may be of value to practising transport planners .
26 Suggest one type of shop which is missing and which would be of value to young people in your area .
27 The establishment of compulsory specialist training for solicitors in commerce and industry is in prospect and such training is likely to be of value to young solicitors whatever career paths they finally adopt .
28 Re-equipment is now in progress , and the purpose of studying it is to see what practical lessons can be learned , which will be of value in future projects .
29 The heterogeneous increase of urokinase type plasminogen activator antigen concentrations in homogenates of endoscopical biopsy specimens from carcinomas of the upper gastrointestinal tract , which was not associated with several other prognostic determinants , as presented in this study , might perhaps be of value in determining prognosis in ( early ) oesophageal and gastric cancer .
30 Presumably such breeds could be of value in developing areas of the world where veterinary surveillance is poor .
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