Example sentences of "[verb] [been] of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one may also say , from the fact that this has needed to be discussed — and from the fact that , as I say , throughout the greater part of Christendom women have not been ordained — it would be difficult to argue that the fact that this religion has had at its centre a male figure has been of little significance . |
| 2 | However , it seems plausible that this source of energy has been of little importance in the past because Jupiter is so very massive that it probably formed very hot , though Jupiter may now be sufficiently cool for helium separation to have recently become significant , or for it to become significant in the relatively near future . |
| 3 | But staff here agree the assessment has been of little value . |
| 4 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 5 | Can you say what the best things are from your drama school experience and what has been of most value to you during your first year in the profession ? |
| 6 | I mean , Diana herself has never in her lifetime uttered one statement that has been of any use to any member of the human race . ’ |
| 7 | I hope that this has been of some help if you were not too sure of which rib to use on what occasion . |
| 8 | The work of Norman Shneidman has been of some value in highlighting the way in which sport in Soviet society is ‘ directed towards the all-round development of the human individual ’ ( 1979 , p.7 ) . |
| 9 | On balance , I believe that Britain 's membership of the EEC has been of some benefit in terms of the home market which she has gained and will continue to gain as and when her partners honour their commitments to complete the Single Market ; however , as should be clear from the figures quoted in Chapter 5 , the assertion that EEC membership has been good for Britain is open to question . |
| 10 | Right in the course of our er er com our meetings Danny erm I will be asking you to recommend me to people but if , but only if you feel that this meeting has been of some benefit to you . |
| 11 | Doctors have not always welcomed the establishment of computer systems in hospitals — computers have often proved difficult to use , and the information has been of more use to managers than to clinicians . |
| 12 | In our view , routine casework unsupported by an active programme of service development would have been of little value and would probably have degenerated into a frustrating cycle of ‘ patch and mend ’ crisis management . |
| 13 | ‘ The brilliant inventiveness of the engineers and scientists … would have been of little avail if this strong industrial base had not existed . ’ |
| 14 | If the bands are reshuffled , the trials will have been of little practical value . |
| 15 | It would have been of little comfort to investors to learn that Chairman John Wheeler had , according to former business colleagues , been living a luxury lifestyle , spending almost £70,000 on refitting his yacht , and thousands of pounds renovating his six-bedroom house . |
| 16 | This book is useful but could have been of more value if it had been more clearly grounded in practice . |
| 17 | Gould 's arrangements for his own children were meticulously considered , which must have been of some consolation to his wife , who had dutifully resolved to accompany her husband to Australia . |
| 18 | A good response to training was associated with improved squeeze duration in our patients , but increased conidence in mastering anorectal function may also have been of some benefit . |
| 19 | It seems odd at first sight that Celsus senior should have been of this view , and odder that he managed to persuade Ducenius Varus ( consul in AD 95 ) and his colleagues that it was the correct one . |
| 20 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 21 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 22 | There was no one else in the hotel who could have been of any possible interest to the assassins . ’ |
| 23 | Nevertheless , it seems highly improbable that had it been pursued the ‘ revolutionary ’ alternative , deprived as it would have been of any significant outside help , would have proved any more successful . |
| 24 | But such links remained tentative and seem to have been of little relevance to policy development even if the symbolism was important . |
| 25 | At least one senior member , who for a time was delegated the task of convening its meetings , considered the panel to have been of little relevance in the first year or so : because the books were not on the shelves , so there was n't a great need for finding ways of stimulating the use of this material . |
| 26 | The conduct had also to be intended to provoke a breach of the peace or to have been of such a nature as to have been likely to have occasioned such a breach . |
| 27 | " Employment on the railways as in other sections of the transport industry can not be said to have been of such a character as to fit in with the theory of labour aristocracy . " |
| 28 | Whatever serious business was discussed by the two Emperors remains unrecorded , but it is unlikely to have been of much substance , for Napoleon III found that his host was constrained by the new constitutional structure which had emerged after the defeat of 1866 . |
| 29 | At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance . |
| 30 | The precise rating of the engine is not known , but Thomas had specified about 25 h.p. , and it appears to have been of that order . |