Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun sg] [modal v] be of " in BNC.

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1 Such a scheme would be of considerable help to private suppliers of education .
2 However , the hidden messages in such a question may be of some importance in terms of conditioning the consciousness of the — largely working class — students for whom CSE mathematics courses are intended .
3 Whilst recognising that such a survey would be of only indirect relevance to their present situation , the firm has a long history in the area ( since 1890 ) , and its management has an acute awareness that the present local employment situation is likely to deteriorate further without a mix of public/private initiatives .
4 The main exclusions of the policy still operate and such a clause may be of limited use , but its existence is worth investigating .
5 Such a body could be of importance for training .
6 Such a policy would be of especial benefit to bilingual or multilingual children .
7 Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps .
8 Such an alternator would be of great use in a motorcaravan conversion I intend doing on a V8 Land Rover .
9 From this study it is hoped to develop a taxonomy of degrees of cooperation , to be applied in similar situations of long-term near-violent and sub-violent confrontations across maritime frontiers , to the fields of maritime and marine resource management and protection ; such an analysis could be of guidance and advantage to policy-makers and analysts alike .
10 A writ can still be served on a limited company by sending it by first class post to the registered office , but following the Practice Direction ( QBD ) ( Service of Documents : First and Second Class Mail ) ( 1985 ) 8 March [ 1985 ] 1 WLR 489 the presumption will be of service on the second working day after posting by first class post or the fourth working day after posting by second class post .
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