Example sentences of "be useful for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hot-oil treatments are useful for permed , coloured , sun-dried or heat-dried hair , as a oncein-a-while extra . |
| 2 | As already mentioned , they are useful for strong rejection of low-frequency interfering signals originating from the mains supply , which is absolutely essential in many instances . |
| 3 | Boxplots , showing median , interquartile range , and extreme values , are useful for quantitative outcome variables , especially when broken down by explanatory strata and displayed together . |
| 4 | Lever-arch files are useful for medical records , discovery documents and trial bundles , and can be embossed with your firm 's logo . |
| 5 | The rasps are useful for preliminary shaping prior to fine-finishing , and will cut across the grain of timber without tearing it . |
| 6 | Thelodonts are usually represented in the fossil record as isolated scales which , because of their abundance , are useful for stratigraphic correlation . |
| 7 | Bornstein ( 1979 ) also suggests that fingerspelling would not be useful for young children since it involves fine perceptions and handshapes which they themselves may not be able to form . |
| 8 | Some agencies offer special services which can be useful for specific jobs . |
| 9 | The assumption made above was that it would be useful for subjective risk in driving to promote accurate memory and thus aid the driver in avoiding such situations in the future . |
| 10 | To see essentialism and social constructionism as polarized opposites may be useful for rhetorical purposes , but any fully-sensitive analysis of culture and sexuality must constantly negotiate between the two . |
| 11 | The Universal Decimal Classification was devised with a very fine specification , and as such is found to be useful for technical libraries and for information retrieval . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , older industrial property could be useful for new companies wanting cheap premises and wishing to locate in the cities . |
| 13 | Our collections would be a random sample from the wild cocoa population , to be handed over to cocoa breeders who could screen them for genes that would be useful under their own conditions : a genotype that was susceptible to witches ' broom disease might still be useful for other reasons to farmers in West Africa , where this disease does not occur . |
| 14 | I thought this tip would be useful for other intarsia knitters too . |
| 15 | Diary techniques may be useful for longer-term studies provided they do not alter the respondent 's habits . |
| 16 | At higher packing densities a separate overflow area may be useful for small bucket sizes , while chained overflow in the prime data area remains best for large bucket sizes . |
| 17 | Agencies other than the state produce statistics that may be useful for sociological research . |
| 18 | Additionally , confidence can be useful for certain types of secrets for which other rights are inappropriate such as the recipe for Coca-Cola or a secret research technique or industrial process . |
| 19 | Cardboards and paper can obviously be useful for prolific artists or those travelling light ! |
| 20 | Cardboards and paper can obviously be useful for prolific artists or those travelling light ! |
| 21 | Feminists working on social representations recognize , in addition , that human experience is highly symbol dependent , that the issue of language can usefully link psychology with other work in the social sciences and humanities , and that a greater focus on this area might be useful for psychological investigations of many gender issues ( e.g. Wetherell et al . |
| 22 | It is only to be expected that these two rather different techniques , the Doppler shift technique and the " chirp radar " technique , would be useful for different special purposes . |
| 23 | From this point of view , a budget is expected to state clearly the purposes of expenditures and provide them in a from that will be useful for legislative action . |
| 24 | Our collections are a very important European resource , and have the potential to be useful for scientific purposes to all Member States . |
| 25 | With the Cogelow tools , I found it necessary to grind new bevels completely for these tools to be useful for intricate ornament . |
| 26 | An anechoically lined chamber must be used for some immunity testing as well as being useful for general emissions and immunity testing . |
| 27 | Knives would obviously have been the most common tool in everyday life , being useful for numerous functions . |
| 28 | He told Bazargan that the posts were useful for Iranian security , since they provided information on Soviet troop movements . |
| 29 | It is useful for determining changes in internal energy , changes in enthalpy and heat capacities , for example . |
| 30 | Adopting a Child : a practical guide for people interested in adoption ( 1984 ) published by BAAF is useful for adoptive parents . |