Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information about shape and size will of course be to some extent writer dependent . |
| 2 | But will the flood of computers be of much use ? |
| 3 | Nor will the legal guarantee of freedom of speech be of much use if access to the mass media is severely restricted . |
| 4 | One of the older Gnomes , who had a face like a wrinkled nutcracker and bright twinkly eyes , asked would a bit of magic be of any use anywhere , because was n't magic a powerful thing when you had a difficulty , and the other Gnomes said to be sure it was . |
| 5 | Most of the ‘ safe areas ’ offered to Muslims in fragments of Bosnia will not in fact be at all safe . |
| 6 | Secondly it will remain the case that once a species has been judicially classified as dangerous , then , subject to the doctrine of precedent , there is no room for distinctions based upon the fact that some variants or individual animals within the species may not in fact be at all dangerous : in other words , the law continues to ignore ‘ the world of difference between the wild elephant in the jungle and the trained elephant in the circus … [ which ] is in fact no more dangerous than a cow . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ This guarantee does not affect your statutory rights ’ : we 've all seen it written and , believe it or not , this statement must by law be on all guarantees , in order to explain and remind us that we also have rights against the supplier , as well as the issuer of the guarantee . |