Example sentences of "it be [prep] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This information and the decisions which emanate from it are of great importance , politically , economically and socially . |
| 2 | I do n't think it 's of great benefit to English rugby to go around persuading people to stay on if it 's against their wishes , and possibly against their better judgement . |
| 3 | Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever . |
| 4 | It is with great regret that we record the death of the following member . |
| 5 | It is with great dismay that I am writing to you following the presentation of the Editing for Industry awards in Torquay . |
| 6 | WILLIAMS : It is with great reluctance that I speak and I beg you to forgive me , but I must tell you it is the Countess of Pembroke , a lady noted for her wit and beauty but of a wanton disposition . |
| 7 | It is with great sadness that I write this letter having been informed of the possible demise of what can only be the most important publication since the Dead Sea Scrolls . |
| 8 | It would be a tragedy for the aircraft preservation and restoration movement as a whole if it were all scrapped , and so it is with great sadness that after a great deal of thought they are agreed ( having been partners both in business and as husband and wife ) that the time has come to take life a bit easier and retire from the business . |
| 9 | It is with great sadness that we report the death of Ken Rowlands . |
| 10 | IT is with great sadness that I have to report that died on . |
| 11 | IT is with great sadness that we have to announce the premature death , on , of , 's production planning manager . |
| 12 | It is with great sadness that we announce the unexpected and tragically early death of June Bascombe on 21 August in the Intensive Care Unit of Epsom Hospital . |
| 13 | ‘ Good afternoon , ladies and gentlemen , it is with great pleasure that I introduce you to the magic of television … ‘ |
| 14 | It is with great pleasure that I take up Mrs O'Neil 's call to arms on behalf of Martina . |
| 15 | Suddenly there was work for everybody and the deaf community took full advantage of this change of climate , as reported in the 1944 annual report : The effect of the war on industry has given the deaf and dumb opportunities such as they had never enjoyed for many years and it is with great pleasure that the committee places on record the excellent work the deaf Have done . |
| 16 | It is with great pleasure that I now enclose a copy of the video film made of the first semi-final round . |
| 17 | It is of great significance for the subsequent history of anthropological thinking . |
| 18 | It is of great significance that most of the NICs are presently or have been in recent times one-party states , not necessarily totalitarian in the classic sense , but certainly lacking in most of the genuinely pluralistic institutions that characterize advanced industrial societies . |
| 19 | However in an application for an injunction it is of great significance . |
| 20 | Most designers have an intuitive but unformalised picture in these terms but it is of great utility to produce these pictures in flow diagram form so that any differences of view are revealed and can be reconciled by discussions during the process of agreeing the diagrams . |
| 21 | 1982 ) and so it is of great concern to primary health care teams . |
| 22 | Er , as Charlie just pointed out , it is of great concern and it 's a time bomb that is definitely ticking away . |
| 23 | It is of great credit to the Committee that it describes the situation so clearly and that it points out many of the problems that have come about as a result of Government policy towards private residential care over the past few years . |
| 24 | You know that the Training Course , too , is under pressure and we feel that it is of great benefit to share resources in this way . |
| 25 | Next , if I were wise only to my own ends , I would certainly take such a subject as of itself might catch a clause , whereas this ’ — he is of course writing about the vexed question of erm Church government and the possible disappearance of episcopy — ‘ whereas this hath all the disadvantages on the contrary , and such a subject as the publishing whereof might be delayed at pleasure and time enough to pencil it over with the curious touches of art , even to the perfection of a faultless picture , whereas in this argument the not deferring it is of great moment to the good speeding . |
| 26 | It is of great comfort to know that John had so many friends and that our family has been in the thoughts and prayers of so many people . |
| 27 | As such it is of great interest to the oil companies but for China the discovery of a province as big as the North Sea province or the Alaskan province would be of inestimable importance . |
| 28 | But it is of great interest , because it demonstrates a familiar mode of argumentation that has been more widely used in historical descriptions and that can be found in many places , and I shall comment on a similar case in ME below . |
| 29 | This aspect will be examined below , since it is of great interest and importance in any local landscape . |
| 30 | ‘ It is of great importance that the UK should not appear to turn its back on Europe , so that it can play its full part in negotiations , ’ the peers say in a report rushed out yesterday ahead of the Strasbourg talks . |