Example sentences of "[to-vb] is of " in BNC.

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1 The ability to observe is of far greater importance and is readily enhanced by practice .
2 There is one ailment where learning to relax is of special importance , and that is asthma .
3 The number of relatives a person may be expected to have is of importance to all students of kinship and the family in the past and in the present , and especially to those concerned with kinship support of the elderly .
4 The feeling to emphasise is of a three-piece action .
5 What Eleanor Darcy has to say is of course monstrous , fascist .
6 we , we , we , we , we 've , we 've , we 've got one decision I think which we are making , which is that we should n't at the moment , make any recruitment until we 've got confirmation that we can guarantee employment next year , se , secondly I think we 're saying that the first appointment that we do want to make is of a complaint examiner , and that if further investigators leave us , then we would n't be seeking to replace them as investigators , we 'd be seeking to replace with the complaint examiner , that , that , that ,
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