Example sentences of "[be] useful [prep] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fairs are useful for meeting potential new clients and as a way to introduce ourselves . |
| 2 | Pastry and biscuit cutters are useful for cutting different shapes out of cake and fondant icing . |
| 3 | Books such as those used for beginning readers are useful for demonstrating this effect , and if you have found yourself daydreaming or thinking about a conversation with a colleague while " going through the motions " of reading to a child , this does not mean that your reading was inadequate . |
| 4 | The last-named are useful in creating faster movement or in extending the material into slow sections , thus giving those speed changes which make more extended forms possible . |
| 5 | While contrast enhanced computed tomography has an established role , measurement of markers such as CRP , polymorphonuclear elastase ( PMN elastase ) , and antiproteases are useful in detecting pancreatic necrosis . |
| 6 | The lead times are useful in planning other activities dependent on this stage being completed . |
| 7 | It seems that pastoral conventions are useful in defending traditional rights , though the idea of an immediate economic advance is much harder for Leapor to accommodate . |
| 8 | In recent years , however , the canine colon has become a standard model for colonic motility studies and , although it displays some kinds of contractile activity not seen in man , it has been useful for investigating neuropharmacological interactions . |
| 9 | Land registers have been useful in identifying vacant urban land , and in imposing a degree of dynamism within urban-land markets . |
| 10 | Beside the TNM classification system additional variables , such as biological staging for the intrinsic malignant potential of the tumours , might be useful for determining long term survival . |
| 11 | Accessory straps can be useful for attaching bulky items to the outside of the pack . |
| 12 | Bjornsson 's approach differed from that of many earlier researchers in two important ways : first , he set out at an early stage to make his formula one which would be useful for making cross-cultural comparisons , and second , he chose not to use the statistical technique of multiple regression . |
| 13 | Band shapes can also be useful for identifying unknown impurities , particularly in the gas phase . |
| 14 | This is not to say that they thought the movement could solve the boy labour problem , or the youth problem in general , but its ideas and its personnel would be useful in sustaining scientific collectivism . |
| 15 | Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients . |
| 16 | Since the intention of this chapter has been to provide an introduction to global tectonics and the major elements of the Earth 's morphology and structure , the suggested reading is mainly limited to texts which will be useful in providing more details on these topics . |
| 17 | The particular vibrations excited are often found to be closely associated with the electronic transition within whose band the exciting radiation falls , and this can sometimes be useful in assigning electronic transitions . |
| 18 | However , film may be useful in teaching cultural aspects of a language , or in teaching English for Special Purposes ( ESP ) . |
| 19 | It is believed that the observational material will be useful in highlighting subtle aspects of differential behaviour and therefore be of particular help in staff training schemes . |
| 20 | However , it should be said that past costs can be useful in predicting future costs . |
| 21 | The provision of a large calendar and clock in each ward can be useful in preventing this apparent disorientation . |
| 22 | This model also suggests that the hydrothermal cells should have maximum dimensions of about 40 km in diameter which can be useful in eliminating some areas near major deposits . |
| 23 | What the teacher is trying to do is to guide each pupil into developing a set of mental models which have been found by experience or experiment to be useful in understanding technical processes . |
| 24 | It would be in addition to the objective classification and provides a broad analysis of expenditure which can be useful in making broad judgements , for example , about the percentage of total costs paid as salaries and wages . |
| 25 | Psychiatrists envisaged that curare might be useful in relieving muscular tension and so diminish the feedback from over active muscles which perpetuates a sense of anxiety in tense patients . |
| 26 | This can also be useful in rolling some models , but may require compromises elsewhere , if you run out of available pitch ranges . |
| 27 | They were useful for treating allergic disorders and also as sedatives and remedies for motion sickness . |
| 28 | A question-answer drill is useful for learning these vocabulary items : When learning verbs , ask your language helper to act them , or act them yourself , so that you associate the verb you are learning directly with the action it signifies . |
| 29 | It provides an effective descant over voices , and can sound languid and restful , especially when unaccompanied in its bottom octave , rising from middle C. In its middle register it is useful for teaching new tunes or doubling the melody line . |
| 30 | Some models will also convert from a two wheeled sack barrow into a four wheeled multi-purpose truck which is useful for moving heavy items like paving slabs . |