Example sentences of "[conj] this be of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Although this is of considerable importance , particularly if the ballet is to be presented in a large theatre , too much concentration on certain of the dimensions ( height , depth or breadth ) may deprive some members of the audience of much of the pattern . |
| 2 | Evidence from recent empirical research suggests that siblings do provide a source of support in adult life , although this is of less importance between parents and children . |
| 3 | It could be argued that this is of little moment , as only popular texts are involved . |
| 4 | But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future . |
| 5 | Now , a true Brit like Brian may delude himself that this is of no great consequence since Scotland is just a part of Britain and no different from a region of England . |
| 6 | But there is a very urgent sense in which the Caribbean family fails to encourage sufficiently or places too much pressure on their offspring at school ; and there is every reason to surmise that this is of general relevance — not just to sportsmen . |
| 7 | Note that this is of limited use as it implies that the data is held only in the index or in the main file . |
| 8 | A high prevalence of bile acid malabsorption has been reported in patients with otherwise unexplained diarrhoea and it has been suggested that this is of pathogenetic importance and predictive of improvement with cholestyramine . |
| 9 | Now all I 'm suggesting to him is that there is here apparently a requirement laid down by the treaty which ca n't be aggregated by any one individual member state which could actually only be enforced by reference to a court of justice and what I 'd like to ask is in the light of this very deep seated concern by the French about Strasbourg er and the European parliament building and the knowledge that this is of such importance to the er of er voting and of representation in the community of the European elections . |
| 10 | Thank you sir erm in that the government and the opposition front bench want to move this measure erm fulfilling their commitments to the Maastricht treaty , I accept the methodology and the precedent that the government cites , I think that 's appropriate , erm I just wanted to very briefly say that this is of course a vote no longer like the generality of the population voting for the membership of a golf club in which we have varying degrees of er interest . |
| 11 | My Lords I I 'm to say that this is of course erm a very controversial area and it is quite frank that it should be controversial too . |
| 12 | Tim Reagan , who would not have dared to give his French wife as little time as Claudia Yeo got , murmured that this was of course important and good luck to them , indeed . |
| 13 | This group of fish was also fully fledged in the Devonian , and this is of particular significance because the origin of all land vertebrates has been considered as lying within a species of this group . |
| 14 | At the present stage of development of US television , on the other hand , the schedules of the majority viewing channels ( and this is of course complicated by the much wider dissemination of cable ) are stripped in a way which concentrates particular genres and subgenres within the same time-slot : the competition is directed quite blatantly at the same demographic group or taste constituency , and , characteristically , for the network viewer , the choice is within genres and subgenres rather between them . |
| 15 | Another function of the advisory service for visually handicapped children involves working with parents and families , and this is of particular importance in the case of the pre-school child with defective vision . |
| 16 | And this is of course , as if I agree with the view that you expressed yesterday in a general context , although it was made specifically then in relation to one village , any recommendation I make in relation to that village , if it is based on the general principle , must apply by analogy also to Skelton , and I would have little choice but to recommend to the councils that they may wish or indeed they should , reconsider this question of washing-over or insetting elsewhere . |
| 17 | I have mentioned research , and this is of prime importance in gold prospecting . |
| 18 | In telling such stories , people display the ways in which they think about health and illness , and this is of central interest to this study . |
| 19 | The petition can be signed by the parliamentary agent himself , and this is of value because last-minute instructions are frequently received , and I have known cases where the client has not even seen the petition until after it was deposited , although he has of course cleared the content by telephone . |
| 20 | Thus carnitine is crucial for mitochondrial energy production , and this is of particular importance in skeletal and heart muscle . |
| 21 | The time taken for development from infection until mature adult parasites are producing eggs or larvae is known as the prepatent period and this is of known duration for each nematode species . |
| 22 | And you can see that 's where the main tracks where and this is of course where we had er sort of sidings and er other things and er and the main yard . |
| 23 | However early in the novel he has an experience which makes him aware of a significantly different kind of memory , and this is of course the famous incident in which as a young man he dips a small cake , a madeleine , into a cup of tea . |
| 24 | Consequently , and this was of critical significance for all those who were concerned about the various aspects of the youth question , ‘ His education , which is the means whereby he becomes a citizen , is thus one of the State 's foremost concerns . ’ |
| 25 | If payable it will be assessed on the difference between the purchase price of the new house if this is of an appropriate category and the estimated ( lower ) price they would have paid in their existing location for a broadly equivalent house . |
| 26 | If this is of limited interest , say a knitting wool , you would find it wasteful to go on TV because so many viewers would not be knitters . |
| 27 | They fall squarely into the category requiring prevention but long-term effects of one offence , if this is of a minor nature , are far from inevitable . |
| 28 | Please let me know if this is of any interest to you ; and if you need any more information , I will be glad to provide it . |
| 29 | Divergent oblique-slip motion leads to extensional ( normal ) faulting and subsidence and if this is of sufficient magnitude a pull-apart basin may be formed . |
| 30 | Speaking of hearing in Gertrude Stein 's prose the ‘ hypnotic ’ ‘ rhythms ’ of ‘ the saxophone ’ he concluded that if this were of the future , then the future was ‘ of the barbarians ’ . |