Example sentences of "were [prep] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , looked at from the perspective of the 1980s , it is not at all clear that groups which styled themselves upon Mussolini 's movement in the 1920s were of greater significance than certain more obscure British nationalist organizations of the period , since these provided crucial financial and ideological legacies for later gener-ations of British fascists , most notably anti-semitism . |
| 2 | Subsequently McAdam and Whitaker ( 1971 ) demonstrated that prior to the production of various test words summed negative wave potentials were of greater magnitude over the left than the right hemisphere . |
| 3 | Some of the lesser priced Modernist works were of greater interest , Edward Hopper 's 1926–28 watercolour , ‘ Gloucester houses ’ ( lot 143 est. $300–400,000 ) , bought cheaply by the Jordan-Volpe Gallery , for $300,000 ( £187,500 ) was a brilliant example of what was to be one of his most popular subjects . |
| 4 | Moreover , research rather suggested that the former groups mounted one-off campaigns targeted at parliament or public opinion , whereas the latter groups ( and especially the trade unions and employers associations ) were of greater power and were likely to be in regular day-to-day contact with ministers , government , and the permanent administrative side of the state machine . |
| 5 | Society had changed from the earlier structure where primitive valuables were of greater importance . |
| 6 | Looked at from the ground , however , a rather different picture emerges , since it is clear that in many constituencies local issues were of greater importance , and even where national issues played a role , they were often distinctively shaped by peculiar local circumstances . |
| 7 | As the next chapter shows , by the late 1980s other mechanisms for restructuring the older industrial areas were of greater appeal to the government . |
| 8 | In Wales the nature of the war was largely dominated by physical factors : in mountainous territory foot soldiers were of greater use than heavy cavalry would ever be . |
| 9 | After hearing details of the figures last night , Scotland 's home affairs minister , Lord Fraser , said any criminal statistics indicating a rising trend were of great concern . |
| 10 | Root crops were of great significance only in Speyside where 83% of the farmers considered turnips an important ingredient in winter stock diets . |
| 11 | Before the days of intensive quarrying , natural rock outcrops were of great significance . |
| 12 | In institutional terms these procedural manoeuvres were of great significance ; the executive was strengthened while the legislature , to some extent , was reduced to the rubber stamp status craved by Stockman . |
| 13 | There were occasions when the leagues were of great help to the Conservatives , but their relationship to the party was often ambivalent and sometimes hostile , and it was not always easy to control their activities . |
| 14 | There were times when the bikes were a pain but , also times when they were of great benefit . |
| 15 | The duke immediately saw an opportunity to improve relations with the powerful Buchanan family , none of whose members were of great wealth , but several of whom were freeholders in Dunbartonshire and Stirlingshire . |
| 16 | The Book of Kings and Chronicles , several passages in which are echoed in the dictum , were of great assistance both to the bishops and to the kings ; and anyone who wishes to understand medieval kingship should study these books very closely . |
| 17 | He had lectured on philosophy in the university and had made numerous friendly contacts which were of great use to myself , though I was unable to follow on his very able lectures to university students . |
| 18 | Although these were of great use to the profession the benefit was reduced by the fact that |
| 19 | This was a serious threat to the homeland 's security as well as to its prestige , for England 's North American possessions were of great importance to the Royal Navy . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | The contrast can not be explained entirely in terms of personalities ; nevertheless the characters of the rulers concerned were of great importance in this connexion . |
| 22 | Turnbull 's calls were of great interest to the government at the time any calls to him from Britain would be separated from the surrounding chaff and monitored . |
| 23 | These were of great value not only regarding the history of the architecture of the fabric and fitments , but also the matrimonial alliances of long-dead notables . |
| 24 | There we were welcomed as if the old collars were of great value . |
| 25 | I think also that he liked Kelham — provided it were a short visit , for he was by nature and inclination a townsman — because he felt that such establishments were of great value in carrying on , in addition to theological instruction , the classical tradition . |
| 26 | There is little question that overseas markets , by and large the trophies of war , were of great value for the growth of English manufacturing over the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | But he denied that closing times after 1.30am were of great value to tourism . |
| 28 | Even the wars and internal reforms of Peter I , bitterly unpopular as they were with great masses of his people , could not eradicate the feeling that the Tsar was , in some ultimate sense , the father and protector of the ordinary Russian . |
| 29 | Although Botham 's sponsored Mercedes was the victim of a nocturnal break-in on Newcastle quayside within days of him taking delivery , both superstars were in great heart during the early weeks , Jones 's infectious enthusiasm extending to initiating some dumbfounded team mates in the incomprehensible fielding routines practised by the Australians . |
| 30 | First of all it comes from the top , I think all of us were in great sympathy with what Harris and the American generals had to do . |