Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [det] importance " in BNC.

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1 This means that information about food obtained by following others was most available to a given individual when it appears to be of least importance .
2 These promise to be of such importance that I shall briefly relate them here , before journeying north .
3 Why this should be of such importance in the minds of you and me , and all the others from the world of the nineteen-forties I do not know .
4 The size of the mare too seems to be of little importance , and mules are much more alike than their parents might seem to suggest .
5 Other conundra m–y appear rather less cosmically' relevant ; they may seem to be of little importance yet , like Mercury 's orbit , may prove in the long term to be extremely important .
6 ( The type and purpose of those structures may be of little importance . )
7 Japan could be of much importance in the event of war and it might be feasible for the Japanese to fight for the United States after a war had begun .
8 Secretion of bile is not usually considered to be of much importance in this response since the gall bladder procides a mechanism for rapid delivery of bile into the duodenum at mealtime .
9 Whether or not any special rule survives for trespassing cattle is not likely to be of any importance now that damages for personal injuries can not be recovered under that head .
10 In the Snowdonia National Park this latter consideration frequently appears to be of more importance than any other to the NP Committee when more controversial schemes are examined , in spite of a NPA having no statutory responsibilities for such policies .
11 In other words it is possible that local social and ecological facts may be of more importance when interpreting crime than broad processes such as modernization .
12 Thus the financial health of the company seemed to be of more importance than the community 's concern over the health of its children .
13 The definition of living space continues to be of more importance than its detail , and even Gothic novelists , who are fond of adjectives and often describe the landscape at some length , elaborate very little on interiors .
14 If they were genuine imports into prehistoric Britain then they would be of some importance in suggesting trade networks .
15 The building is supposed to be of some importance , architecturally .
16 As already noted , and as will be of some importance later in this inquiry , the temporal feature does not require that the constituents of the causal circumstance be simultaneous .
17 ( 1.4 ) They are distinct , however , from causal generalizations , which will be of some importance in what follows .
18 Since this second sufficient condition turns out to be of some importance , it might be useful to have an intuitive idea of what is involved .
19 However , the hidden messages in such a question may be of some importance in terms of conditioning the consciousness of the — largely working class — students for whom CSE mathematics courses are intended .
20 Grade III buildings were those which , whilst not qualifying for the first statutory list when compiled in 1949–69 , were considered nevertheless to be of some importance for planning purposes .
21 It may be of some importance to provide in the expert clause that the parties have the right to make representations .
22 What will be of greater value is a partial characterization which mentions only those features ( 9 , 5 , 8 , 7 , in order of appearance in the partial characterization ) which will be of most importance in what follows immediately .
23 For example , with respect to the first category of nomic correlates , the category which will be of most importance to us , there is the truth that if a necessitates b , then b is necessary to a .
24 The remit of the Technology Foresight steering group includes overseeing the collection of information on scientific opportunities and potential market applications , and with consultation from researchers and industrialists , to produce working documents that will advise CST on the technologies that they judge to be of most importance to the country 's economy .
25 Where the rocks exposed in the cliffs are incoherent , pressures produced by the waves may be of less importance and much of the erosion accomplished by the load flung against the cliffs and by the simple swilling action of the waves , which removes the finer matrix from gravel beds .
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