Example sentences of "be [prep] some value " in BNC.

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1 The work of Norman Shneidman has been of some value in highlighting the way in which sport in Soviet society is ‘ directed towards the all-round development of the human individual ’ ( 1979 , p.7 ) .
2 However , although the averages given in the last column of Table 4 are of some value they do not convey the reality of referral and investigative work .
3 Thus all three of these techniques : programme budgeting , specialty costing and patient costing , are of some value but do not overcome all the limitations of departmental budgets .
4 ( 1966 : 72 ) recognized such unobtrusive measures have found favour in field-work and I discovered at an early stage that the problem remains one of revealing the structural warts of the system while somehow indicating that this need not be seditious ; and indeed might even be of some value .
5 For this reason , the fourth edition of Coopers ' manual will continue to be of some value .
6 ‘ My feeling was that if this was the last thing I was going to do , I wanted it to be of some value .
7 Variability in ME , however , has sometimes been perceived as an obstacle rather than a resource , and as a result information that might be of some value to the historian has been rejected from the canon .
8 A clarification of what society expects of directors might nevertheless be of some value in combination with other measures .
9 This may be of some value , but the plan should be made to work harder .
10 I have just prepared a paper for my Executive Committee on this and I have enclosed a copy in the hope it might be of some value .
11 In its present form it would be of some value to the company historian but in public institutions , its status as a record , and therefore its management needs to be decided before we can determine its retention .
12 In his evidence to the Committee , Keynes identified seven possible classes of remedy for depression , and assured his colleagues that practically all of them were of some value .
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