Example sentences of "[be] [prep] much [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 Japan could be of much importance in the event of war and it might be feasible for the Japanese to fight for the United States after a war had begun .
2 Secretion of bile is not usually considered to be of much importance in this response since the gall bladder procides a mechanism for rapid delivery of bile into the duodenum at mealtime .
3 In any case , as we shall see in Chapter 8 , strengths very greatly in excess of I per cent of the Young 's modulus may not be of much interest in practical engineering .
4 In opposition to centrally imposed ‘ local economic strategies ’ , these initiatives of the left explicitly recognize that what is appropriate in one place , may not be of much use in another .
5 A planning process which fails to accept this … is unlikely to be of much use in the realities of business life .
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