Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [modal v] be of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It now seems that the time of injection may be of crucial importance in determining the effects of melatonin . |
| 2 | While this survey has been concerned with public libraries , co-operation potentially encompasses a wide range of institutions , and an INSET network that concerned itself with training across the whole spectrum of librarianship would be of maximum value . |
| 3 | While the power of dismissal may be of limited use , where the government has been able to appoint a new rail chairman , it has the opportunity to shape a management team more in tune with its thinking . |
| 4 | ‘ The withdrawal from ERM and the subsequent devaluation of sterling should be of particular benefit to Scotland because of the higher propensity to export . |
| 5 | So massive a change of emphasis must be of fundamental significance , not only to the anthropologist and the social historian , but to the child psychologists , psychiatrists and psychotherapists whose very existence as a group depends upon the climate of opinion which regards their professional skills as valuable and necessary , and which places them on an equal footing in social esteem with the more anciently respected callings of the paediatrician and the pedagogue . |
| 6 | Standard definitions of use would be of significant value when considering consents . |
| 7 | [ more calmly ] I am now convinced that nothing but religious considerations and a resolution to watch over the very first appearances of evil can be of sufficient weight to keep steady to his good purpose a vain young man . |
| 8 | The most immediate practical benefits are likely to be in foreign language teaching , where clear statements of the rules of gender would be of great value . |
| 9 | This is because classical beams of radiation can be of arbitrary weakness . |
| 10 | In this situation , age-regression under hypnosis can be of immense value , allowing patients to free-float back under their own control to any past relevant events with which they feel they can cope , but not forcing the issue in any way . |
| 11 | Welford Beaton thought that its examination of the progress of cotton from field to factory would be of great educational value and he urged distributors to put the film into every motion-picture theatre in the world . |
| 12 | The other side of the reactivity coin is that change induced in respondents by evaluation may be of positive benefit . |