Example sentences of "[verb] been of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you say what the best things are from your drama school experience and what has been of most value to you during your first year in the profession ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Locke 's discussion of personal identity , which was added in the second edition of the Essay on the suggestion of Molyneux , has been of lasting interest to philosophers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sampling theory has been of value in various areas of museum work , from assessing the long-term resources required for conservation treatment of the British Museum 's large collection of Babylonian clay tablets , to ensuring that a given ‘ kill rate ’ in insecticides used for paper conservation will provide effective treatment . |
| 6 | Although I am anxious to avoid entering into aesthetic theory or acting theory to any large extent it has to be conceded that the topic I have been tackling here , the logical relationship between emotion occurring and emotion described has been of central interest to aestheticians and acting theorists alike . |
| 7 | ‘ This knowledge has been of great use . |
| 8 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 9 | I mean , Diana herself has never in her lifetime uttered one statement that has been of any use to any member of the human race . ’ |
| 10 | Even in countries where housing standards have improved immeasurably , and the promotion of safety in the home has been of long-standing concern , the problem of accidents is one of some magnitude . |
| 11 | Again the design of the sea-lion enclosure has been of great help in the management of these attractive marine mammals . |
| 12 | In some areas of the Southern North Sea Basin it is evident that post-inversion subsidence ( essentially Tertiary to Recent ) has been of sufficient magnitude to subject previously matured Carboniferous sediments to the depth/temperature regime to which they were originally exposed . |
| 13 | The standard model of local government since the war has been of multi-functional authorities with an elected council supervising the direct provision of services . |
| 14 | The Department of Employment in their Partnership Handbook publication , recommend and increase in the numbers of teachers undertaking secondment into industry as a key performance indicator of partnership activity , as it has been of the TVEI extension programme . |
| 15 | It is only the most recent work that has been of an acceptable standard in this respect , and the finding may be summarised as showing a modest correlation between the level of lead in the blood and hyperactivity in children , and between high blood levels and low intelligence , with the latter conclusion more firmly established . |
| 16 | I am a family man , and mine has been of great help to me . |
| 17 | Over recent years , the parish has been of great interest archaeologically and excavations have revealed signs of occupation from neolithic man to the Middle Ages . |
| 18 | Until now , Mr Major 's biggest fear has been of revenge attacks on the 2,400 British troops . |
| 19 | A great deal of diversification has been of a conglomerate , ‘ unrelated ’ nature , but it seems hard to find any justification for unrelated diversification . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | My experience over this past year has been of closed doors . |
| 22 | How texts achieve their effects has been of particular significance in the teaching of literature , including drama . |
| 23 | The government-run NORP is still in operation today , however the observation that this programme is not mentioned in much of the post-1985 literature on oral rehydration therapy in Bangladesh , suggests that it has been of limited value to the people of Bangladesh . |
| 24 | It has occurred to me to wonder what the previous experience has been of youngsters who savagely assault old people , whether they have ever been close to an old person . |
| 25 | Talk , though , has been of ‘ dozens of Hurricanes ’ with strong rumours of some examples still in their shipping crates ! |
| 26 | I hope that this has been of some help if you were not too sure of which rib to use on what occasion . |
| 27 | There 's no doubt that the street-wisdom of the English forwards has been of huge value to them . |
| 28 | The work of Norman Shneidman has been of some value in highlighting the way in which sport in Soviet society is ‘ directed towards the all-round development of the human individual ’ ( 1979 , p.7 ) . |
| 29 | Much of the literature in this area has been of US origin , and the more general applicability of such managerial strategies to other countries needs , therefore , to be considered in the light of evidence from cross-national studies . |
| 30 | Gozitan wine is cheap but just recently has been of variable quality . |