Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] may be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , collocations extracted from the domain of Banking may be of little use when processing a medical report , since words like ’ charge ’ behave differently when used to describe a type of payment rather than a type of nurse . |
| 2 | It now seems that the time of injection may be of crucial importance in determining the effects of melatonin . |
| 3 | While the power of dismissal may be of limited use , where the government has been able to appoint a new rail chairman , it has the opportunity to shape a management team more in tune with its thinking . |
| 4 | It does not matter whether the party accepting the consideration has any apparent benefit thereby or not : it is enough that he accepts it , and that the party giving it does thereby undertake some burden , or lose something which in contemplation of law may be of value . |
| 5 | The bill of quantities may be of limited use because many items of the work will be presented in a summarised form . |
| 6 | Its model of operation may be of interest to readers participating in the management of partnership activities in general . |
| 7 | A previous knowledge of computing may be of some advantage initially but is not a prerequisite for entry to the course . |
| 8 | But the reader should not forget that , even in those societies where kinship language is all-pervading , the bonds of kinship may be of several different kinds . |
| 9 | Some of the sites under consideration may be of the same date and status , but they may be occupied for part of the year , or for a few years only . |
| 10 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 11 | Breuer et al studied 12 patients with adenomatous polyps and found no differences in faecal bile acid excretion ; the participants in this study were , however , hospitalised and a change in diet may be of relevance to their findings . |
| 12 | The other side of the reactivity coin is that change induced in respondents by evaluation may be of positive benefit . |