Example sentences of "is of great " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , a general consideration of the ‘ B ’ group is of great importance to both the serious and the casual trainer . |
| 3 | Tax rates differ enormously from country to country , and therefore the territory in which taxation is levied on a company is of great importance . |
| 4 | ‘ It is of great importance that the UK should not appear to turn its back on Europe , so that it can play its full part in negotiations , ’ the peers say in a report rushed out yesterday ahead of the Strasbourg talks . |
| 5 | For the Hungarian political parties , facing a general election in March , the issue is of great importance , while for the provisional government now in control in Bucharest the question of Romania 's sovereignty remains extremely sensitive . |
| 6 | In fact this is a commonly asked question , since shape is of great significance in the study of certain classes of ancient artefacts . |
| 7 | This bridge we 're guarding is of great strategic importance . |
| 8 | ‘ The eastern European farmer does not need lectures on how to farm , but our mechanisation and technology is of great importance to him , ’ claims Mr Colman . |
| 9 | This is of great advantage to good horse trainers , but a real bane to poor ones . |
| 10 | You are married to an Italian , you live in Italy , what happens here is of great importance to your future . ’ |
| 11 | The newer antiherpes agent , acyclovir , is of great interest , because it acts in virally-infected cells , but only to a negligible extent in healthy human cells . |
| 12 | Folic acid itself is of great interest to anyone concerned with the formation of red and white blood cells , and with the abnormal and excessive formation of white cells in leukaemia . |
| 13 | Peter once said that the true inner self is ‘ the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit , which is of great worth in God 's sight . ’ |
| 14 | As such it is of great interest to the oil companies but for China the discovery of a province as big as the North Sea province or the Alaskan province would be of inestimable importance . |
| 15 | This is of great interest from the aromatherapy viewpoint because there is no risk of solvent residues in the resulting extraction . |
| 16 | Fortunately , a framework was recently developed which is of great help in delineating appropriate value-adding roles for librarians and information scientists . |
| 17 | The rescript is of great utility in ensuring that the honour of a happily concluded marriage and indeed the faith of common children should not deceive a father who had thought better of the mother : therefore the emperor , most provident and most devoted to the cause of law , when he observed that the words of a trust were lacking , ruled by rescript that this expression should be treated as a trust . |
| 18 | The discovery that Roman law had anticipated the position in modern equity is of great interest . |
| 19 | So the search for the W and Z particles is of great significance . |
| 20 | Even without elaborate camouflage markings , this immobility is of great value to prey species because the eyes of prowling killers are more sensitive to movements than to static shapes . |
| 21 | This fact is of great importance , for it carries within it irrefutable evidence that whatever definition of ‘ god ’ is finally accepted , mankind must be , if not the sole architect of it , then at least to have had a very considerable influence on it . |
| 22 | The acceptance of the first of the three premises , that the god to be worshipped is not to be identified with the power which is assumed to have created the universe , will bring about a change from long established practice and is of great importance . |
| 23 | This point is of great significance in so far as any increase in the value of partnership property belongs to the firm . |
| 24 | Binocular vision is of great importance , for it is two visual fixes on objects in a three-dimensional world which give us a perception of distance . |
| 25 | Vernon , that simple , noisy creature , has hit upon a scheme that is of great service ; he has laid Folkestone cutters all round the coast , which are continually relieved and bring constant notice of everything that stirs . |
| 26 | When this situation exists the freedom to protest outside the parliamentary system is of great importance to such minorities . |
| 27 | Cleanliness is of great importance at all times . |
| 28 | ‘ It is of great importance that a child 's environment enables him to enlarge his living sphere , according to his own abilities and without being restrained by traffic , from his home surroundings to the neighbourhood and beyond . |
| 29 | The character of the leaders of the new churches is of great significance . |
| 30 | The church of All Saints stands in a hollow and is of great historic interest , dating from the 12th century . |