Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] be of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relation between this point and high tide level is of considerable importance in the interpretation of raised beaches and old high level marine-cut terraces . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the patient 's history and presentation , usually of clinical jaundice , pruritus , vague abdominal pain , anorexia , and weight loss are of limited value in determining the underlying aetiology . |
| 3 | This research programme is of fundamental importance for higher education . |
| 4 | Equity entry is of crucial concern to the large numbers of trained and talented drama school finalists seeking to enter the business every year . |
| 5 | This review should be undertaken by the relevant managers — the steps necessary to ensure employee safety being of crucial importance . |
| 6 | Although solute dependent sodium absorption via the cotransport mechanism is of major therapeutic importance during diarrhoeal states , sodium is mainly absorbed from the jejunum through other passive processes such as electroneutral sodium chloride absorption and solvent drag . |
| 7 | Until about five years ago most boats in general club use were of this sort . |
| 8 | This growing export trade was of great importance to the Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 9 | On the drive to Pelham Woods Rachel realised just how short the concentration span was of some members of the group . |
| 10 | Consequently , until 1935 the labour movement is of more interest when studied in its extra-parliamentary role , which centred largely around the issue of unemployment . |
| 11 | The wedding procession was of enormous size and enormous splendour , the largesse scattered lavish , the banquet which followed ‘ Lucullan ’ . |
| 12 | However , as far as churches and some other faith communities are concerned , City Challenge and the new Urban Partnership Fund are of limited significance ; the former because it is geographically limited to small areas of Bradford and Kirklees , and the latter because it is so meagre ; its national total of £20 million equals only twice the annual Urban Programme receipts in our three districts ( £10.8 million in 1992/3 ) . |
| 13 | The engine with constant speed prop is of conventional Lycoming origin , and standard King instruments and extras provide a full IFR panel . |
| 14 | In the section on specific speech systems , we shall see under what conditions the speech search problem is of this type . |
| 15 | The East African Rift System is of this type and its interpretation as an incipient site of plate rupture is further supported by its continuity with the divergent plate boundaries of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden . |
| 16 | While the complexity of the patterns of segregation suggest that Barron and Norris ' work is oversimplified , their focus on processes in the labour market is of great value . |
| 17 | The subclass composition of an IgG response is of biological significance because of the striking isotype related differences with regard to binding and activation of complement , promotion of phagocytosis , and mediation of antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity . |
| 18 | However , if the response to the HIV-1 major neutralisation determinant or to p24 core protein is of major interst , serum is better . |
| 19 | Of the diagnostic statistics reported for ( 2.2 ) , the RESET test statistic is of particular importance in that it fails to provide any evidence that relevant higher moments of the explanatory variables have been omitted from the equation . |
| 20 | The Enigma machine was of amazing complexity . |
| 21 | This means that expert determination is of little use in cases where international enforcement is required , as experts ' decisions can not be enforced like arbitration awards under the 1958 New York Convention or like judgments of courts of European Community countries under the 1968 Brussels Convention . |
| 22 | The relationship of small mammal diversity , as reflected in prey diversity , to habitat richness is of greater significance in this respect , and this will be considered in more detail below in connection with species representation of small mammals in prey assemblages . |
| 23 | The compensation claim was of symbolic importance to the Sandinistas and followed a 1986 ruling by the International Court of Justice that the US had broken international law and had committed illegal acts in its support of the former contras . |
| 24 | The largest winter flocks are in Chichester Harbour , where the winter peak was of 3,000 birds or more in each winter until 1974/75 , and the highest count was of 4,900 birds on 10 March 1968 . |
| 25 | The question of the recently introduced Actively Seeking Work legislation was of major concern to everyone . |
| 26 | The older houses and the village church are of local red brick . |
| 27 | The state of the Welsh road and rail infrastructure is of considerable interest to Northern Ireland given to Principality 's role as its landbridge to the Channel Tunnel . |
| 28 | Knowledge of the user group is of particular importance and influences the content , layout and indexing of a database . |
| 29 | Defragmentation is not a daily job anyway , so sophistication of user interface is of minor significance . |
| 30 | Orbits in Schwarzschild space–time are of general interest , and so the opportunity will be taken to include a number of comments not directly relevant to the calculation of Mercury 's orbit . |