Example sentences of "[verb] been of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Locke 's discussion of personal identity , which was added in the second edition of the Essay on the suggestion of Molyneux , has been of lasting interest to philosophers .
2 The staple crop has for centuries been rice , and wet-rice agriculture has been of crucial significance in the evolution of Japanese society .
3 The growth of labour-only sub-contracting has been of mutual benefit to both employers and employees .
4 Indeed , their use of common law has been of especial importance in outlining and protecting certain rights of the individual .
5 Section 4 assistance to the industry has tripled from £1 million to nearly £33 million during the same period and has been of great advantage to the economy of Wales .
6 I am also grateful for the continuing support of the other Board members , particularly Michael Lunn who has been of great assistance to me in his capacity of Deputy Chairman .
7 Again the design of the sea-lion enclosure has been of great help in the management of these attractive marine mammals .
8 I am a family man , and mine has been of great help to me .
9 Although he admits having joined the authority as a complete outsider to the health service , his wide experience in the business world has been of great help .
10 ‘ He has been of great service to the Reich , ’ Himmler said .
11 Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’
12 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 .
13 The distinction between blending inheritance and particulate inheritance has been of great importance in the history of evolutionary ideas .
14 Over recent years , the parish has been of great interest archaeologically and excavations have revealed signs of occupation from neolithic man to the Middle Ages .
15 Sir , — It has been of great interest for me to read of small company audits in recent issues , and especially the approaches of other members .
16 ‘ This knowledge has been of great use .
17 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 .
18 But staff here agree the assessment has been of little value .
19 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 .
20 My experience over this past year has been of closed doors .
21 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 .
22 Although I am anxious to avoid entering into aesthetic theory or acting theory to any large extent it has to be conceded that the topic I have been tackling here , the logical relationship between emotion occurring and emotion described has been of central interest to aestheticians and acting theorists alike .
23 We apply such a combination here to an issue which has been of central interest to urban sociology : the state , its concentration of power , and its relation to people 's daily lives .
24 The standard model of local government since the war has been of multi-functional authorities with an elected council supervising the direct provision of services .
25 Gozitan wine is cheap but just recently has been of variable quality .
26 However the research has been of variable quality , there are conflicting findings , and the full implications for practice remain unclear .
27 Contract law has been of major importance in underpinning the market , although other areas of law have also had a bearing .
28 At present any member of the public can consult it all day long , all year round , and there is no doubt that it has been of invaluable help not only to scholars but also to the art trade .
29 The government-run NORP is still in operation today , however the observation that this programme is not mentioned in much of the post-1985 literature on oral rehydration therapy in Bangladesh , suggests that it has been of limited value to the people of Bangladesh .
30 As lack of resources has been a perennial problem since the beginning the boost given to the financial status of the BDA by the patronage of The Princess of Wales has been of incalculable value .
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