Example sentences of "[adv] useful [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their degree of preference for one party Over others had an important influence upon the usefulness-ratings they gave the media for helping them decide how to Vote ( those with clear preferences found the media less useful for that purpose ) but had little or no influence on other aspects of usefulness-ratings . |
| 2 | While such programs are valuable for school librarians and teachers , in that most spelling errors are , in fact typing errors , they may be less useful for some pupils , as the act of checking for errors may be a way of improving their spelling , perhaps related to the use of dictionaries , and their use of language . |
| 3 | This lightness makes the palm sander especially useful for overhead work or large areas of wall . |
| 4 | Though they can be used with a mallet , the Cogelow tools invite slicing and paring , and are especially useful for ornamental work |
| 5 | Ski start : the major tour operators run learn to ski weeks which are especially useful for lone learners . |
| 6 | The company reckons that the kit will be especially useful for corporate data processing teams with existing Cobol development expertise , suggesting that existing Cobol applications can be rapidly configured as client-server applications . |
| 7 | Although this means that the essay has , indeed , become rather bulky , it does enable one to communicate the nuances of people 's arguments , which can be especially useful for those readers who do not have easy access to the primary documents quoted . |
| 8 | This publication would be especially useful for any student nurses ( and also trained nurses ) who are finding difficulty in relating psychology to their practice of nursing . |
| 9 | As a temporary measure ( especially useful with burst lead pipe ) , there are resin filler products which can be applied to the pipe to stem the flow of water , some of which will withstand mains pressure almost immediately . |
| 10 | Here is my way of making ‘ cut and sew ’ buttonholes , I find it especially useful on difficult yarns , for example , bouclés . |
| 11 | This will be especially useful in long rallys , which are physically very demanding . |
| 12 | With these saws , a knob directly above the blade allows you to turn just the chuck rather than the whole body of the saw — especially useful in tight corners . |
| 13 | It does , however , provide an excellent centrepiece for performing all those other activities which are so useful for coronary patients . |
| 14 | If it fits in with your scheme of work , these may be extremely useful at Key Stages 1 and 2 . |
| 15 | Such things are extremely useful for that purpose , and for Attainment Target 2 in National Curriculum history . |
| 16 | A concordance alphabetises all words in their context and is extremely useful for certain types of grammatical analysis . |
| 17 | Knowledge of how bacteria move DNA around could be extremely useful for developing strains that destroy pollutants , for example . |
| 18 | We found these extremely useful for many reasons . |
| 19 | Grey and silver foliage plants grow in every shape and size , from the thistle family that can tower above everything else , to the very small alpine plants with silver leaves that can be extremely useful for miniature work . |
| 20 | Hence , some method of indicating the state of a battery can be extremely useful in any item of portable equipment . |
| 21 | This ability to inflict several wounds at once on a large target does , however , make the mortar extremely useful against big monsters . |
| 22 | Fig. 6.18 shows a plot of Lum et al. 's figures on the basis of average accesses per retrieval ; it appears from the curves that consecutive spill is only useful for larger bucket sizes , but the figures are misleading , as the chained overflow was to a separate file area , necessitating head movement . |
| 23 | Because education is n't only useful for those countries chasing an impossible dream of Western industrial development . |
| 24 | Also , many skills are job-specific — that is , they are only useful in certain types of jobs . |
| 25 | The experience came in useful for another role right — as a makeup girl . |
| 26 | More probably it was the product of the average scientist 's well-known unwillingness to get rid of anything if he thought that it might come in useful at some time in the future . |
| 27 | Did n't you know that everything you learn , and everything you suffer , will come in useful at some time in your life ? " |
| 28 | These are immensely useful for some operations , and a number must be retained at high readiness . |
| 29 | SYMAP has the advantage that no specialized hardware is required and is thus useful for introductory teaching at degree level . |
| 30 | Unlike the TROG and the NSST , the TACL has been standardised on British children and therefore age-based comparisons are likely to be much more useful for this group . |