Example sentences of "[det] is of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is of course in our own interests . ’ |
| 2 | All this is of great significance for exploring Leonard 's characteristics , for what was natural to Leonard 's incipient viewpoint and versification now found stimulating and corroborative encouragement . |
| 3 | This is of extreme value and should be used more often by young choreographers . |
| 4 | Although this is of considerable importance , particularly if the ballet is to be presented in a large theatre , too much concentration on certain of the dimensions ( height , depth or breadth ) may deprive some members of the audience of much of the pattern . |
| 5 | None of this is of any comfort to the unions , who are very strongly represented within the PTT and have been united in their rejection of the proposed reforms . |
| 6 | This is of course an extremely simplistic presentation of the after life but it may illustrate why many people , as they approach the end of their lives , are concerned to ‘ put their affairs in order ’ . |
| 7 | This is of course traumatic in itself and involves an interview with the Registrar which we will discuss in more detail in chapter 11 . |
| 8 | This is of course not always so . |
| 9 | This is of great advantage to good horse trainers , but a real bane to poor ones . |
| 10 | This is of course very useful diagnostically where the teacher does not know the class . |
| 11 | This is of particular importance on coach and motoring holidays . |
| 12 | For Italy or France this is of no particular significance , since the role of their parliaments is not great , but Britain would be depriving itself of its most important political institution . |
| 13 | This group of fish was also fully fledged in the Devonian , and this is of particular significance because the origin of all land vertebrates has been considered as lying within a species of this group . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose this is of Livesey . |
| 15 | At the present stage of development of US television , on the other hand , the schedules of the majority viewing channels ( and this is of course complicated by the much wider dissemination of cable ) are stripped in a way which concentrates particular genres and subgenres within the same time-slot : the competition is directed quite blatantly at the same demographic group or taste constituency , and , characteristically , for the network viewer , the choice is within genres and subgenres rather between them . |
| 16 | This is of importance since closer follow-up and longer treatment is needed in such cases . |
| 17 | It could be argued that this is of little moment , as only popular texts are involved . |
| 18 | On a macro scale , this is of course how Blacks were and to a large extent are still viewed : as a disruptive , damaging force disturbing the previously calm , stable landscape of cultural superiority . |
| 19 | This is of more value than infrequent formal contact |
| 20 | But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future . |
| 21 | This is of great interest from the aromatherapy viewpoint because there is no risk of solvent residues in the resulting extraction . |
| 22 | This is of course the area with which certain members of the library and information profession have sought to become intimately involved , and even to command the heights . |
| 23 | This is of course what architects are supposed to do . |
| 24 | This is of direct importance to the view of health and the function of disease in Homoeopathy . |
| 25 | This is of less importance but may confirm what was already clear or it may help to differentiate between two or more remedies which are equally close . |
| 26 | This is of course directly contrary to the past experience of most British ‘ curriculum managers ’ , certainly at secondary level . |
| 27 | ( This is of course , a local variant of concerns expressed by Johnson ( 1977 ) regarding the welfare state as a whole , and discussed in Chapter 2 , section 2.2 . ) |
| 28 | The painter has given us most interesting information of the types and uses of craft on the different lakes , but this is of secondary importance to his using the water as a well-lit stage to the main theme , the mountains . |
| 29 | This is of course the famous ‘ Principle of falsifiability ’ ( or as Imre Lakatos terms it in his immortal words ‘ sophisticated methodological falsificationism ’ ) . |
| 30 | This is of course a perfectly defensible approach , but it seems to me a limited one : inevitably one comes up against the micro-macro conundrum . |