Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she will be of course one of the nation 's teachers of the year . |
| 2 | However , because of the immense potential for the integrated ( ie raster/ASCII/vector ) systems that were under development , the point was made that the strategy could be to plan their eventual use for those functions where they could be of value . |
| 3 | Or they may be of a different kind . |
| 4 | These relations may be of the paradigmatic variety ( e.g. oppositeness , synonymy , etc. ) or they may be of the so-called paronymic sort ( that is to say , involving identity of root , but difference of syntactic category , as , for instance , with act : actor , race : racy . |
| 5 | Graphic output may be in standard form , a partition ( zoomed-in ) or extrapolated ( zoomed-out ) graph , or it may be of residuals alone . |
| 6 | If any of my staff or myself can be of help with a future motoring need , you only have to pick up the phone or call in and see us and we will ensure your total satisfaction . |
| 7 | I am very honoured as Rector to be associated with this great University and hope that during my period of office should you decide to come here , that I may be of assistance to you during that time . |
| 8 | ‘ That I can be of help , that she is delighted to have me here and that my presence can be of great comfort to her during these very trying times . |
| 9 | erm I 'm sure that I could be of some help to them |
| 10 | I mean this is something that we could maybe be of help to in fact maybe something that I could be of help to them on because I actually do lectures on public relations how to assess what I mean at a very basic level you want to communicate with press how do you do it but before you do it why do you want to do it . |
| 11 | Her grandfather had suggested , without conviction , that she might be of some use in the farm office . |
| 12 | Isobel found herself fascinated by the diversity and challenge of Edouard 's work ; she also quickly found that she could be of help to him . |
| 13 | Now , however , she felt that she could be of some help . |
| 14 | She hinted that she could be of more help to them than her brother , provided that they left him alone in his present state of health . |
| 15 | ‘ I hope , sir , ’ he said , not noticing the pun , ‘ that we may be of some assistance to you in your stay in the region . |
| 16 | We must shift from viewing animals as made for our benefit to thinking that we must be of benefit to them . |
| 17 | David Morgan , presenting the donation for the bank , said : ‘ I 'm delighted that we can be of any assistance . ’ |
| 18 | Instead , the very word ‘ miniature ’ means that everything should be of a smaller scale than usual , even including the fabric or card that you will use for the backing . |
| 19 | Possible that there would be of course . |
| 20 | Few of these products have been clinically tested although they may be of assistance to some people . |
| 21 | Pension schemes are vital to many of our constituents , and I should have thought that they would be of equal importance to Conservative Members in Scotland , who may soon have to look to their own pension schemes although the Minister has reassured me that he may have other arrangements . |
| 22 | And he put his sons to read , that they might be of the better understanding , and he made them take arms , and be shown how to demean themselves in battle , and to be huntsmen . |
| 23 | ( On Feb. 28 the UN Security Council had warned Iraq of " serious consequences " after ballistic experts were refused permission to destroy Scud missile equipment , on the grounds that they could be of use in civilian industry — see p. 38788 . ) |
| 24 | The results of the research will be made available to Enterprise Agencies in the hope that they will be of practical use . |
| 25 | To read how my own ancestors lived in the time of the Tudors and the Stuarts and to even learn that they occupied the 10th pew adjoining the South Wall in the Myddle Church has been the inspiration to write down some reminiscences of my own childhood and of the stories related to me , in the hope that they will be of interest , not only to the present generation , but maybe , also to that 500 years hence ! |
| 26 | Endotoxin from different organisms although it may be of of different potency has essentially the same biological effects . |
| 27 | Any 8-bit microprocessor will work , since no multiplication or division is necessary in the software , although it would be of advantage to use a 16-bit device to do the scaling of signals internally . |
| 28 | With less than an hour of daylight remaining , he carried a flashlight — not that it would be of much help with the rain cascading down as if the Maya Rain God had corralled every raincloud in Central America and pulled the plugs out . |
| 29 | There was a celebrated individual who devoted a large part of his life to carefully recording everything that he observed ; upon his death , this complete set of observations was presented to the Royal Society in the hope that it would be of use to scientists . |
| 30 | This may not be hard news in the sense that it would be of interest to the news desk of the daily newspapers , but it must have something to interest a specific readership . |