Example sentences of "[prep] be of [adj] [noun sg] [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 . |
| 7 | Water quality does not appear to be of great concern to these hardy fish , although an approximate simulation of Amazonian habitats does encourage them to exhibit better coloration . |
| 8 | Because the authors perceive oral communication to be of great significance in business , they further recommend that : |
| 9 | There is no doubt that gas has proved to be of great benefit to the Netherlands but as in the case of the UK , with its North Sea oil bonanza , various consequences of hydrocarbon wealth , such as a strengthening home currency , tended to precipitate industrial decline in some sectors of the economy and in the case of the Netherlands , the costs of developing a gas infrastructure outweighed the return for some years . |
| 10 | This principle is unlikely to be of great relevance in cases for the protection of business secrets . |
| 11 | It was to be of great importance to countries like France and Switzerland where a shortage of mineral fuels could be offset by an abundance of hydroelectric power . |
| 12 | Sheep used to be of great importance to the British economy . |
| 13 | In practice the phenothiazines and lithium proved to be of great importance in managing schizophrenia and mania , respectively , and in helping to restore many patients to everyday life . |
| 14 | The Kingman Report proved to be of great value to my Working Group . |
| 15 | One which I found to be of great value in my business life , until the advent of decimalisation , was learnt in Standard Four , in the usual sing-song fashion . |
| 16 | Such an intellectual process is likely to be of great value in business organisations which have a tendency to be long on action , but short on thought ! |
| 17 | The economy , versatility and ease of use of these systems has proved to be of real benefit in designing their domestic and commercial structures . |
| 18 | I have seen enough to believe that the materials , over time , will prove to be of real help to teachers trying to solve their own problems by enabling them to see what support there is in the sharing of difficulties and by strengthening the belief that efficient discussion can lead to effective action . |
| 19 | In and around the long-abandoned quarries are millstones which the workers had barely started on ; others with their circular shapes and central holes ; a few even have the radial grooves or ‘ harps ’ chiselled into them , ready for use in the flour mills ; but all left lying when the trade collapsed under competition in the eighteenth century from imported French Burr stones , which were thought to be of better quality for the purpose . |
| 20 | If it does turn out to be of general significance at a variety of scales it will imply that the increased environmental stress associated in some way with regressions promotes an increase in extinction rate and corresponding vacation of ecological niches , with a consequent opportunity for new species to establish themselves . |
| 21 | Many of the characters considered had been shown by other workers to be of selective importance in white clover or another species of Trifolium ( e.g. Cahn & Harper ( 1976b ) had presented evidence suggesting that sheep selected between leaf marks ; Dirzo & Harper ( 1982a ) and others have shown that slugs select between cyanogenic and acyanogenic forms ; Black ( 1960 ) had shown the selective value of long petioles ) . |
| 22 | The companies act and the act on the stock exchange are considered to be of primary importance for the creation of a free market economy . |
| 23 | He will operate his office upon those lines known to be of greatest assistance to his client . |
| 24 | The matter has been considered by the services Committee ; the Order Paper is designed to be of greatest use to the House . |
| 25 | It is true also that with respect to free trade in some of the more intractable areas ( which happen also in many cases to be of greatest interest to Britain ) some progress has been made . |
| 26 | They are corridor carriages , but differ from those of the ‘ West Coast Joint Stock ’ above described in that they are slightly narrower , in order to be of uniform width with the present ordinary rolling stock , their actual body width being eight feet . |
| 27 | It is on these grounds that we could discount the ‘ rare exceptions ’ referred to by Nossal ( 1975 : 46 , above ) , since the superfluous testing which he condemns has a far greater probability of continuing to be of little benefit to mankind , even in the advancement of knowledge , than the work of Gray , Gallistel , or the early objectives of Blakemore . |
| 28 | Conversely , there are many , so-called , all-inclusive communication models which are so grotesque as to be of little use to anyone . |
| 29 | This last argument seems to be of little use against the solipsist , who is not interested in communication with others . |
| 30 | He stated : ‘ It is somewhat bizarre that local authorities should single out the nuclear industry with its accident-free transport record for attack when the public is placed at far greater risk by the routine traffic in fuels and chemicals which seem to be of little interest to our councillors . ’ |