Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] of [det] significance " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be other reasons why forward and expected future spot rates may not be equal ( for example , Frenkel and Razin ( 1980 ) show that stochastic prices may result in a divergence between the two , but admit that this effect is of little significance in practice ) . |
| 2 | Road , air , and even river transport were of little significance by comparison with the railways . |
| 3 | The point is of some significance because a duty to balance the interests of present and future members would involve an expansion of the directors ' discretion , in effect , allowing them to justify their actions by reference to the well-being of the enterprise even though they are contrary to the interests of the existing members . |
| 4 | So perhaps you feel that while all this talk about kinship and affinity may make good sense in discussions of the social life of Australian Aborigines or of Trobriand Islanders in Melanesia , it really has very little relevance for ourselves who live in a social context in which , as a general rule , affinity is of little significance and the majority of social relationships outside the domestic family are coded in quite a different way . |
| 5 | There is hardly any need to begin a book on new technology with an explanation of why the topic is of such significance . |
| 6 | His personality and judgement were of most significance in the fields of foreign and military affairs . |
| 7 | Quite apart from the limitations on law reform in general which such an argument would appear to justify , if the views of the public are of any significance at all in this context , then it must be its view of what the law ought to be rather than what it is . |
| 8 | A yearly body clock is of most significance in the tropics , where there are few seasonal indicators to alert animals and plants to the passing of the year . |
| 9 | Not that the difference between the lowest and highest estimate is of any significance . |
| 10 | In tone and content Mr Patten 's speech was of some significance , coming like a breath of damp air into the dry and brittle atmosphere of the Winter Garden . |
| 11 | In any case , neither the Germanic nor the Slavonic mode of production was of much significance for Marx 's and Engels 's later work , and the same is true for most Marxist studies . |