Example sentences of "has [been] [prep] [adj] importance " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , their use of common law has been of especial importance in outlining and protecting certain rights of the individual .
2 Quiet and reserved he may have been , but his determination to succeed has been of great importance to his colleagues , both on and off the field .
3 The distinction between blending inheritance and particulate inheritance has been of great importance in the history of evolutionary ideas .
4 However , it seems plausible that this source of energy has been of little importance in the past because Jupiter is so very massive that it probably formed very hot , though Jupiter may now be sufficiently cool for helium separation to have recently become significant , or for it to become significant in the relatively near future .
5 The first is that the social purpose framework — of raising collective working-class consciousness through critical , liberal educational processes — has been of central importance in the development of community adult education practice in Britain .
6 Contract law has been of major importance in underpinning the market , although other areas of law have also had a bearing .
7 This ambiguity — not yet fully dispelled — has been of immense importance both to the international community and to Japan herself .
8 Inevitably , priorities also shifted as a result of civil strife , which has been of fundamental importance to at least twelve of sub-Saharan Africa 's forty-one countries .
9 He also said in evidence that the quote , parental contribution has been of fundamental importance , unquote .
10 Whereas libertarian historians have devoted relatively little attention to this question , for the traditional liberal and Soviet schools it has been of vital importance .
11 In Japan , the role of MITI has been of particular importance in vertically co-ordinating enterprises in the achievement of longer-term , macro-economic , industry-wide planning ( Dore , 1986 ) .
12 This issue has been of particular importance within central government in recent years as the traditional task of the civil service — that of offering objective , impartial advice — has come under scrutiny .
13 MIND has been of enormous importance in widening understanding of the social aspects of the problem of mental disorder and stimulating progressive work in this held .
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