Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] is of " in BNC.

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1 This should make life a little easier for the prosecutor , but let's not forget that the prosecutor only deals in terms of the crimes , with violence that has occurred , and the violence that has occurred is of course something which has gone wrong in society .
2 The number of relatives a person may be expected to have is of importance to all students of kinship and the family in the past and in the present , and especially to those concerned with kinship support of the elderly .
3 What Eleanor Darcy has to say is of course monstrous , fascist .
4 Anything else the guard may have remembered is of no value for he was killed in the crash .
5 There is one ailment where learning to relax is of special importance , and that is asthma .
6 The Jet project is formally er continuing until the end of 1992 but in recent months we 've had some very great successes in Jet , the work we 've done is of very high quality and , and certainly world leading , and we can see the way ahead to building an experimental reactor after Jet but there are some very important experiments that need to be done before then .
7 His reaction to my essay , on the other hand , brought me up with a jolt ; and although what I had written is of no interest — I seem to have lost the manuscript , so that is the end of the matter — I carne to value his negative appraisals .
8 we , we , we , we , we 've , we 've , we 've got one decision I think which we are making , which is that we should n't at the moment , make any recruitment until we 've got confirmation that we can guarantee employment next year , se , secondly I think we 're saying that the first appointment that we do want to make is of a complaint examiner , and that if further investigators leave us , then we would n't be seeking to replace them as investigators , we 'd be seeking to replace with the complaint examiner , that , that , that ,
9 How could freedom of expression be put at risk merely by the Government 's saying to any one individual ( the Second Vice-President was here referring to foreign capitalist press owners ) that ‘ what you have said is of no relevance in this country and will stir up trouble and mar the peace ’ ?
10 In fact much of the detail in the lengthy description of the Smith family that you have read is of absolutely no value in resolving their problems .
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