Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [prep] great importance " in BNC.
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| 1 | But new questions about the relations of language and what language represents are of great importance to our understanding of Renaissance culture . |
| 2 | Quiet and reserved he may have been , but his determination to succeed has been of great importance to his colleagues , both on and off the field . |
| 3 | The distinction between blending inheritance and particulate inheritance has been of great importance in the history of evolutionary ideas . |
| 4 | No one knew why , though the Dutch gunner Colonel opined that the reason for the Prince 's hasty departure could not have been of great importance , or else the Duke would surely have left with the Prince . |
| 5 | In all types of contracts , particularly the last , definition of the risks it is intended to cover and the manner in which they will be allocated is of great importance . |
| 6 | It is an example of his assiduous , hard-working and caring role as a constituency Member that he has raised this matter which he feels is of great importance to his constituents . |
| 7 | The foreign policy issues on which the left fought were of great importance to the activists but of relatively little salience to the mass of the working class , while nationalisation had faded in popularity — quite understandably , given the failure to develop a popular democratic alternative to conventional managerial practice in the nationalised industries , and to develop a coherent set of criteria for allocating resources with which to counter the charge that they were ‘ inefficient loss-makers ’ . |
| 8 | The requirement that wrappers should be sent was of great importance to the Nestle Co. ; there would have been no point in their simply offering records for 1s. 6d. each . |
| 9 | This observation is necessary not because the lines quoted are of great importance to her poetry , but to give a balanced view of her own conflicts as a domestic servant . |