Example sentences of "[prep] be [prep] [adj] importance " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice the phenothiazines and lithium proved to be of great importance in managing schizophrenia and mania , respectively , and in helping to restore many patients to everyday life . |
| 2 | These are likely to be of great importance when prescribing the remedy for a patient . |
| 3 | It was to be of great importance to countries like France and Switzerland where a shortage of mineral fuels could be offset by an abundance of hydroelectric power . |
| 4 | In this respect England 's relations with Brittany were likely to be of great importance , not only for the positive reason that a friendly duke of Brittany would allow the use of his duchy as a stepping-off place into the mainland , but for the negative one that a hostile duke might cause untold harm to English maritime interests , both military and commercial , by failing to stop the activities of Breton pirates and privateers whose ships gave much trouble at sea , as complaints in Parliament and in some of the political literature of the time , notably The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , testify . |
| 5 | My feeling is that two separate matters sometimes get mixed up : the practice and study of connected speech is agreed by everyone to be of great importance , but this can sometimes result in some relatively unimportant aspects of speech ( e.g. assimilation , juncture ) being given more emphasis than they should . |
| 6 | Sheep used to be of great importance to the British economy . |
| 7 | Many of the characters considered had been shown by other workers to be of selective importance in white clover or another species of Trifolium ( e.g. Cahn & Harper ( 1976b ) had presented evidence suggesting that sheep selected between leaf marks ; Dirzo & Harper ( 1982a ) and others have shown that slugs select between cyanogenic and acyanogenic forms ; Black ( 1960 ) had shown the selective value of long petioles ) . |
| 8 | Certainly almost all of the characters that Burdon lists have been shown to be of selective importance either in clover or in some related species , though sometimes under very specialized circumstances . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What seems to be of primary importance is the gentleness not only of the scene , but of the forces that surround the child , and himself . |
| 11 | As screening procedures prior to recruitment had ensured that mentally ill or emotionally disturbed men were not enlisted , it was reasonable to see stress , rather than predisposition , to be of critical importance ( Weissman and Klerman , 1978 ) . |
| 12 | Responsibility for these plans was divided between the tiers of local government after reorganization so that counties , metropolitan counties and the Scottish regions were responsible for the structure plans , which were understood , at first at least , to be of strategic importance , providing the framework within which local plans might be prepared by district councils . |
| 13 | Community investment which without modesty , er , I can say is a phrase coined by I B M , is seen to be of strategic importance to many leading companies . |
| 14 | In other words it would have to be job beneficial , it would have to be of strategic importance and and all those other things we 've been discussing . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Management could be faced ‘ with severe economic losses if it failed to take into account their views , or to win their consent on issues which were felt to be of major importance by the workforce ’ ( p. 314 ) . |
| 17 | But despite this , Foucault 's essay on The History of Sexuality does offer a most stimulating challenge to traditional historical accounts , partly because of its undermining of conventional approaches , partly because it is an aspect of a much wider intellectual effort , whose implications are likely to be of major importance . |
| 18 | The EAT has proved to be of major importance in clarifying and elaborating the rules contained in the statutory material . |
| 19 | The interplay of these enzymes and their activators and inhibitors and the disruption of normal hepatocyte-matrix interactions is currently thought to be of major importance in the pathogenesis of liver injury . |
| 20 | The task of relieving avoidable distress and creating a caring and heartening environment in residential and nursing homes is going to be of increasing importance in determining the quality of the last year of people 's lives . |
| 21 | Kepler Wessels , the South African captain , has said , somewhat surprisingly , that he considers the one-day series and the Test to be of equal importance . |
| 22 | Allowing doctors to choose whether to spend time in teaching , or research , or management will work only if all of the options are seen to be of equal importance . |
| 23 | Attacked by its critics as a sort of institutional megalomania in which a defeat of free institutions anywhere was a defeat everywhere it was a supercharged containment policy in which , in defence of the perimeter , all points seemed to be of equal importance . |
| 24 | Bob Ashby , the chairman , said that international football was considered to be of paramount importance to the status of Rugby League and that selection for Great Britain must not be devalued . |
| 25 | Bob Ashby , the chairman , said that international football was considered to be of paramount importance to the status of Rugby League and that selection for Great Britain must not be devalued . |
| 26 | He considered good personal relationships between teacher and taught to be of paramount importance : the core , around which all other aspects of Basil 's teaching philosophy fitted into place . |
| 27 | The intention of the parties entering upon a partnership is seen to be of paramount importance . |
| 28 | At the same time , the central office may argue that local offices are too parochial and that central control and the imposition of a uniform provision of service has to be of paramount importance . |
| 29 | That spiritual dimension I believe to be of pivotal importance ; indeed I believe it to be the soul of the Green Movement today . |
| 30 | Elizabeth 's reign is now seen to be of crucial importance because it saw the completion of the Protestantization of the English people and witnessed the creation of a uniquely English style of Protestant church which was later to be labelled Anglicanism . |