Example sentences of "[prep] be [prep] much [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I see only two men , and a bridge too low yet to be of much use to anyone .
2 This was really unnecessary , since a body would have been far too decomposed after eight to ten days to be of much use to any medical school .
3 Conversely , psychology itself has been in no shape to deliver the goods it promised : if educationists were atheoretical , psychologists for their part were producing theories which were too crude to be of much use to educational researchers .
4 It is important to make the correct diagnosis , for fungal treatments are unlikely to be of much use against bacteria and vice versa .
5 A planning process which fails to accept this … is unlikely to be of much use in the realities of business life .
6 Secretion of bile is not usually considered to be of much importance in this response since the gall bladder procides a mechanism for rapid delivery of bile into the duodenum at mealtime .
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