Example sentences of "is [prep] [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is unusual ’ , he wrote , ‘ for a bishop to confirm his own father — but it is as a great Nonconformist that I revere him . ’ |
| 2 | Her loyalty , she believes , is worth a great deal to Charles : it gives him plausibility . |
| 3 | ‘ Seawitch is worth a great deal of money , but , if anything happened to her , I could always build another yacht . |
| 4 | Apart from anything else , this project is worth a great deal financially and I 'd be a fool to myself if I forfeited it just because the client is an obnoxious , egotistical swine . |
| 5 | One of their main demands is for a greater say in policy-making and legislation governing Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | Unemployment is a tragedy for the unemployed in Britain , just as it is for the greater number of unemployed in France and the United States . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) Conversely , asymmetry suggests movement and the movement is towards the greater concentration of energy . |
| 8 | In some cases , and especially where the witness has no interest in the outcome of the case , the lost opportunity to assess demeanour is of no great significance ; in others it is too great a price to pay . |
| 9 | Since recruitment is mainly by procreation it necessarily follows that , in most cases , a substantial proportion of any such population will be related to one another as biological kin ; but just how they are related can not be known and , from a social anthropological point of view , this fact of biological kinship is of no great interest . |
| 10 | In itself it is of no great importance , but it may serve as a pointer to the presence of other sexually transmitted infection . |
| 11 | In the foal , the disease is of no great importance because the mother 's antibodies can reach the foal only via the colostrum ( the first milk secreted by the mother after birth ) and not , as in humans , across the placenta . |
| 12 | In passing sentence Judge Harold H. Greene stated that any punishment other than imprisonment " would be tantamount to a statement that a scheme to lie and to obstruct Congress is of no great moment " . |
| 13 | Now , a true Brit like Brian may delude himself that this is of no great consequence since Scotland is just a part of Britain and no different from a region of England . |
| 14 | There are many situations when the order is of no great consequence , for example a safety audit of a new machine , and in this latter case some logical structure is needed . |
| 15 | IT IS of no great consequence to the rest of the world that a small island off the end of the Indian subcontinent should have sunk over the past couple of decades into a condition of violence so endemic that the murder of the president and a leading opposition politician within eight days can be regarded by the locals with something like equanimity ( see page 71 ) . |
| 16 | It is curious that painted decoration , probably the first type of decoration applied to furniture , is of the greatest rarity in eighteenth-century France , and only seven other examples are known to exist . |
| 17 | It is of the greatest benefit if this process is approached with love and trust . |
| 18 | This matter is of the greatest concern to my constituents , many of whom are at their wits ' end as to what can be done to halt the murderous menace of the theft and racing of cars in residential city streets . |
| 19 | However , the emotion that is of the greatest importance from our point of view , in its effect on the domestic horse , is that of anxiety . |
| 20 | It is of the greatest importance for a potential buyer or tenant to assess the potential of a farm before committing himself to it . |
| 21 | But since the universities also have a central part to play in this determination , co-operation between Government and universities is of the greatest importance . |
| 22 | Being published , originally , in 1655–73 it is of the greatest importance in connection with ecclesiastical buildings up to that time . |
| 23 | The interview , then , is a most valuable tool for the researcher worker and to be able to deal competently with potentates and experts is of the greatest importance . |
| 24 | ‘ It will be useless to observe to the Society that it is of the greatest importance to procure a place as soon as possible , if the Professor is not enabled to begin his Lectures by Christmas ( 1791 ) the establishment will be put off for one year — the Zootomy being strictly the first part he is to begin to teach to the pupils , which everyone knows could not be attempted in the Summer — and it would be feared too long a delay might hurt the success of the establishment . ’ |
| 25 | Retaining this nest-egg of savings untouched , however small it is , is of the greatest importance to the elderly . |
| 26 | Huge sums of money were generated by the World Cup and it is of the greatest importance that most of it goes back into the game and its development . |
| 27 | There are several ways of accomplishing this , and it is of the greatest importance that you teach the puppy to recognize its bed . |
| 28 | Several million inhabitants , busily running their errands within , can cause overheating and produce a foul oxygen-poor atmosphere so ventilation is of the greatest importance . |
| 29 | Today when society , and consequently education , is increasingly dominated by national , academic and statistical considerations and visual imagination is neglected , I believe that this was his great contribution , the survival of which is of the greatest importance . |
| 30 | It is of the greatest importance that the suitable accommodation required by the homeless applicant should be provided with the least possible delay . |