Example sentences of "[adv] it be of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 1982 ) and so it is of great concern to primary health care teams .
2 One of the things you will notice when watching the television is that close-ups are used very effectively , and so it is of vital importance that the actor has absolute control over his/her face and expression .
3 So it was of trivial significance as a means of realizing surplus .
4 Thus it is of considerable interest to ascertain if English law mandated this result and , if it did , whether , yet again , our legal practices fall below the minimum standards prescribed by the European Convention .
5 Or possibly it was of Norman origin , for it is known from a twelfth-century description of London that bull-baiting was practised by them .
6 Clearly it is of prime importance to know how and why this dramatic reversal of traditional attitudes has occurred , and to ask ourselves the question why our approval of democracy should be so automatic and unhesitating when , had we been born a century or so earlier , we would have been equally unhesitating in disclaiming any support for so dangerous and radical a notion .
7 This can be traced back as far at least as Lord Mansfield , who said : ‘ In all mercantile transactions the great object should be certainty and therefore it 's of more consequence that a rule should be certain , than whether the rule is established one way or the other .
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