Example sentences of "[be] of [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nature and extent of housing programmes in the post-war years has therefore been of great significance for urban form , community life and degrees of individual happiness . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The development of CD-ROM techniques has been of particular significance for students of texts : classics students can search the complete database of ancient literature by using the IBYCUS implementation of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae ; students of English can use the CD-ROM version of the Oxford English Dictionary to conduct searches which would take lifetimes if conducted on the twenty volumes of hard copy . |
| 4 | These verbs are of great interest for the present study because , unlike may , can , shall , will and must , they can shift from the bare to the to infinitive , according to the meaning they express in discourse , a fact which lends confirmation to the hypothesis that it is the meaning of the modals which explains their use with the bare infinitive . |
| 5 | Haselkorn has argued that the USSR has also established aerial staging networks which were used for the airlift of arms to Angola and Ethiopia in the 1970s and which are of paramount importance for Soviet access strategy in the Third World . |
| 6 | The ease of application , fluidity and prompt absorption are of prime importance for such products and the massaging action on the affected area helps to activate the ingredients of the cream and improve circulation . |
| 7 | The upper classes , who are just as exotic and who theoretically are of crucial importance for understanding the mechanism of social structure , tend to shut their doors on the enquiring social scientist . |
| 8 | At this level of specificity , therefore , these facts are of limited significance for a general study of lexical semantics . |
| 9 | However , they are of limited use for policy purposes . |
| 10 | Yet the books are of particular importance for Scottish primary schools . |
| 11 | Sometimes personal tours can be arranged in the company of a qualified member of staff , and these are of particular value for ‘ special subject ’ histories . |
| 12 | These titles are of particular value for recruitment , job searching and career management . |
| 13 | The investigators believe that the answers to these questions are of fundamental importance for all of economics . |
| 14 | His early concerns as a parish minister and his active involvement in the cultural and political turmoil of Germany in the 1920s and 1930s are of direct relevance for his theology , and in particular for the passionate conviction that ran through all his work from 1918 to 1968 : that Christian faith rests solely on the revelation of God in Jesus Christ , and that the task of theology is to allow that revelation to shine in its own light and stand on its own authority as the Word of God to us . |
| 15 | Many of the questions are of different difficulty for boys and girls . |
| 16 | Serum estimations are of proved value for all aminoglycosides and for the closely related agent streptomycin . |
| 17 | In addition , they control resources which can be withdrawn or redeployed at their discretion , and are of vital importance for workers ' livelihood and the revenue base of state expenditure . |
| 18 | Another explanation is that organizations are systems that are structured and composed of separate sub-systems , which are of vital importance for the survival of the total system , the organization . |
| 19 | When the signals involved are of low-enough frequency for reactive and other frequency-dependent effects to be negligible , the Z-parameters are given by the slopes of appropriate static characteristics at the operating bias levels . |
| 20 | Their true jaws are of obvious advantage for grasping prey . |
| 21 | Theoretically , it can serve as a source of ideas and insights which are of potential relevance for the formulation of principles : ideas emerging from disciplines devoted to the study of language and learning which might bear upon the definition of language as subject . |
| 22 | The implications of the work at Wharram Percy are of enormous interest for our understanding of how settlements and the landscape developed . |
| 23 | Elsewhere Genscher writes , ‘ Our actions , and above all our thinking , are of special significance for the future of our continent ’ . |
| 24 | Scotland 's churches are of special value for three reasons . |
| 25 | This apparently insignificant detail was to be of fateful importance for all subsequent human cultural and psychological evolution because it provided the first , albeit rather minimal , check on the egoism and mutual antagonism of males . |
| 26 | The companies act and the act on the stock exchange are considered to be of primary importance for the creation of a free market economy . |
| 27 | There would be no appeal against the Court 's decisions ; by rooting the whole ECSC structure in the last resort in the rule of law , the drafters of the treaty introduced a concept which was to be of tremendous importance for European integration as a whole . |
| 28 | The maintenance of high academic quality , especially in a period of expansion , must be of paramount importance for this University and must not be prejudiced by inappropriate or excessive efficiency measures . |
| 29 | In view of the ubiquitous expression of the divergent pou[c] transcription factor , it will be of great interest for future studies to elucidate the function(s) of pou[c] in transcription and/or replication and to determine whether pou[c] is involved in the regulation of a distinct set of target genes . |
| 30 | Therefore , a thorough analysis of the regulation of H1 transcription , both at the basal level and at the enhanced stage , would be of major interest for the understanding of the control mechanisms of gene expression at the transcriptional level . |