Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] [adj] importance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , their use of common law has been of especial importance in outlining and protecting certain rights of the individual . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The first is that the social purpose framework — of raising collective working-class consciousness through critical , liberal educational processes — has been of central importance in the development of community adult education practice in Britain . |
| 6 | Contract law has been of major importance in underpinning the market , although other areas of law have also had a bearing . |
| 7 | This ambiguity — not yet fully dispelled — has been of immense importance both to the international community and to Japan herself . |
| 8 | Inevitably , priorities also shifted as a result of civil strife , which has been of fundamental importance to at least twelve of sub-Saharan Africa 's forty-one countries . |
| 9 | He also said in evidence that the quote , parental contribution has been of fundamental importance , unquote . |
| 10 | Whereas libertarian historians have devoted relatively little attention to this question , for the traditional liberal and Soviet schools it has been of vital importance . |
| 11 | In Japan , the role of MITI has been of particular importance in vertically co-ordinating enterprises in the achievement of longer-term , macro-economic , industry-wide planning ( Dore , 1986 ) . |
| 12 | This issue has been of particular importance within central government in recent years as the traditional task of the civil service — that of offering objective , impartial advice — has come under scrutiny . |
| 13 | MIND has been of enormous importance in widening understanding of the social aspects of the problem of mental disorder and stimulating progressive work in this held . |
| 14 | No doubt his electoral leadership was of value ; but can it have been of decisive importance ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The class of people for whom this may have been of paramount importance was not the traditional aristocracy which had never been involved in work , having merely inherited their estates , but those termed the nouveaux riches , the use of which term implies a much more direct involvement in the work process as the basis for capital accumulation . |
| 17 | But most importantly , no information was given on the location of recurrence of the disease which may have been of prognostic importance . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If the person is considered to have been of outstanding importance to the nation then days of mourning might be decreed . |
| 20 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 21 | It had been of considerable importance to the development of the District 's confidence and reputation in East Anglia in the early twenties . |
| 22 | The areas in which slavery or serfdom had been of marginal importance or genuinely ‘ uneconomic ’ — e.g. northern and southern Russia or the border states and the south-west in the United States — adjusted readily to its liquidation . |
| 23 | The Liberal governments of 1906–14 introduced new principles of social policy which have been of lasting importance , but in accordance with no conscious grand design directed at Cabinet level . |
| 24 | Declining costs of information have been of critical importance in spurring the international growth of service firms and the service functions within manufacturing firms . |
| 25 | Of all the wonderful cricketers to come from the West Indies , it is fair to say that five have been of outstanding importance . |
| 26 | The rapidity of Japan 's economic and political transformation and the enduring influence of Tokugawa practices and ideas into this century mean that in Japan , as in other late industrializers such as the USSR , agricultural issues and the impact of the rural sector have been of crucial importance throughout the past 150 years . |
| 27 | Among these colour and texture have been of prime importance , but durability has always been valued in civilized societies concerned with maintaining wealth . |
| 28 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |