Example sentences of "have [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 2 | Of all the wonderful cricketers to come from the West Indies , it is fair to say that five have been of outstanding importance . |
| 3 | These two treatises gave classic expression to the opposing arguments about the eucharist , and they have been of great interest to theologians ever since . |
| 4 | Could anti-Semitism , so pivotal in Hitler 's ‘ world view ’ , have been of only minor significance in forming the bonds between Führer and people which gave the Third Reich its popular legitimation and plebiscitary base of acclamation ? |
| 5 | Perhaps it 's no coincidence that some of your readings that have made the most indelible impression on your audiences have been of works like the Berg Three Orchestral Pieces , the Honegger Liturgique . |
| 6 | In any case , if enterprise zones are the model , the overwhelming evidence is that financial incentives have proved the driving force , and that liberalized planning regimes have been of limited significance . |
| 7 | All the 15 records since 1948 have been of single birds and the most in any year was four in 1952 . |
| 8 | Although once most usually seen in winter , nearly all records since 1938 have been of passage birds at the coast . |
| 9 | I hope we have been of assistance to you . ’ |
| 10 | But , whatever their idiosyncrasies and complexities , this highly individual body of printers served the book well and , if they sometimes failed in their human relationships , achieved in print a beauty and harmony that have been of inestimable benefit to us all . |
| 11 | It can not be doubted that the post-war black migrations have been of considerable economic benefit to Britain , just as the migrations from North Africa , Turkey , Greece and Italy have boosted the economies of Western Europe . |
| 12 | For us the fertilizer business has been a good business , in many parts of the world over many years , and even its downturns have been of fairly limited duration . |
| 13 | On the other hand , such issues of Media Development as ‘ Video for the People ’ ( 4/1989 ) and ‘ Radio — the Sound of the People ’ ( 4/1990 ) have been of direct relevance to communication practitioners . |
| 14 | However , they have been of considerable value in that they have challenged the assumptions of many gerontologists and policy makers and forced a closer examination of our knowledge about health and ageing in later life . |
| 15 | Deer have been very much part of my life , and I hope these notes have been of interest and helpful in understanding why stalking takes place . |
| 16 | I think that one important strand in the rejection of feminism by many women has been a feeling that feminists are saying that their lives have been of no value , and that their activities and concerns have been trivial . |
| 17 | The baby bulge birth cohorts have been of an age to have children for some time . |
| 18 | The rapidity of Japan 's economic and political transformation and the enduring influence of Tokugawa practices and ideas into this century mean that in Japan , as in other late industrializers such as the USSR , agricultural issues and the impact of the rural sector have been of crucial importance throughout the past 150 years . |
| 19 | The Liberal governments of 1906–14 introduced new principles of social policy which have been of lasting importance , but in accordance with no conscious grand design directed at Cabinet level . |
| 20 | Declining costs of information have been of critical importance in spurring the international growth of service firms and the service functions within manufacturing firms . |
| 21 | Indeed it would be surprising were we able to do so , since there are some fairly clear empirical examples of industries where publicly owned concerns have been of superior or equal efficiency to private ones , as we shall see in chapter 7 . |
| 22 | Most locality studies have been of relatively compact free-standing towns or of discrete neighbourhoods in great cities . |
| 23 | Among these colour and texture have been of prime importance , but durability has always been valued in civilized societies concerned with maintaining wealth . |
| 24 | Very rightly , Mr. Beloff has presented arguments to the court , which have been of considerable assistance , and which were in favour of the plaintiffs and not of the Bank of England on the main issue of principle . |
| 25 | Most alternative and oppositional groups have been of type ( ii ) , though there are early cases of type ( i ) and some later cases of type ( iii ) . |
| 26 | Within these phenomena four main areas of study have been of interest to rural geographers ; first , and most enduring of all , the study of rural population change ; second , and more recent in its concern , the study of rural communities ; third , and of more general relevance to other chapters in this book , the classification and definition of rural areas by both their population and employment characteristics ; and fourth , the study of employment in rural areas . |
| 27 | Attempts to test the state subsidy theory of strikes have been of two kinds : studies attempting to show the correlation , if any , between levels of benefits and strike activity over the years ; and studies exploring the views of strikers in relation to benefits and strike activity . |
| 28 | The context suggests that he must already by then have been of age and so was born in or before 1260 . |
| 29 | But not all station encampments have been of rail travellers . |
| 30 | The effect of these Standing Committees has been that debates have been of a much more highly focused and objective quality . |