Example sentences of "not [adv] use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely an ethical theory is not much use without some view as to what may induce humans to live by it . |
| 2 | An ISDN interface is not much use without the software to drive it and Sun is not stinting its efforts in this direction either . |
| 3 | They could compare the weight of the irons and investigate what they were made of , or look at the energy source they needed and the implications of this — the electric iron is not much use without an electricity supply ! |
| 4 | This appears , sadly , to be the situation in many countries , and suggestions like the one from the WHO document Social and health aspects of sexually transmitted disease ( 1977 ) that ‘ it is essential for clinics to have the basic equipment required for making rapid diagnosis : the darkfield examination , a quick micro-flocculation test for syphilis , and smear and culture of specimens for gonorrhoea ’ are not much use to a health worker in a village in India , who , far from considering buying a microscope , can not obtain the antibiotics needed to cure gonorrhoea had he the facilities for diagnosing it . |
| 5 | If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun . |
| 6 | Not much use to Keen Dee ; he did n't have any enquiries , just wanted to get pumped . |
| 7 | That , however , is not much use to the retailer if the boy has chosen instead to sue the retailer for breach of contract . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , you 're not much use to anyone in here . ’ |
| 9 | It was a sight worth dwelling on , but not much use for present purposes . |
| 10 | Igfets have strange characteristics , which mean that they are not much use at frequencies of below a few kilohertz . |
| 11 | Although Napoleon was not much use on this occasion , the full-size skeleton has an important role to play in the future . |
| 12 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 13 | In the same field lies 1 Geminorum , not much use as a comparison for Eta because it is too faint ( 4.1 ) . |
| 14 | Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’ |
| 15 | ( ‘ Though not much use in the circumstances ! ’ d'Arquebus cooed softly . ) |
| 16 | But poisoned meat is n't much use to anybody , is it ? ’ |
| 17 | The picture that emerged was unflattering ; but it was n't much use to an aspiring blackmailer . |
| 18 | ‘ Did n't want to leave my mum , but she was n't much use to me — he treats her like dirt , knocks her about . |
| 19 | Old people are n't much use in a war . |