Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [be] of some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , I might be of some help settling the young gentleman . ’ |
| 2 | erm I 'm sure that I could be of some help to them |
| 3 | As a final word , for those who are novices in the world of finding somewhere to sleep in the wilds , I can be of some assistance . |
| 4 | Her grandfather had suggested , without conviction , that she might be of some use in the farm office . |
| 5 | Now , however , she felt that she could be of some help . |
| 6 | ‘ Livée , perhaps you can be of some help to Citizen Vaubrun , ’ said Mme de Ratho pointedly . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope , sir , ’ he said , not noticing the pun , ‘ that we may be of some assistance to you in your stay in the region . |
| 8 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 9 | ‘ All those birds are as common as dirt around here , but I guess if they could be of some use to you , that 's great . ’ |
| 10 | If they were genuine imports into prehistoric Britain then they would be of some importance in suggesting trade networks . |
| 11 | They will be of some use in working out what it was that testators hoped to achieve by adding on a trust disposition to provisions at civil law . |
| 12 | I have told this story in the hope that it may be of some help to other adoptive parents , and out of the profound belief that love is the most important thing in the world . |
| 13 | It may be of some comfort to read some words written recently by Gaby Goldscheider , an experienced antiquarian bookseller , in the Antiquarian Book Monthly : |
| 14 | It may be of some interest that the club of Hercules should be so thoroughly integrated in a Celtic religious assemblage , but this requires a specialized and more detailed study than could be attempted here . |
| 15 | If , as is all too common , Scots lawyers have to apply in their own system a document imperfectly adapted to their own familiar terms , such as is the RICS scale in this particular , it may be of some advantage to know what ‘ rent reserved ’ means , at least in the country in which it originated . |
| 16 | It may be of some importance to provide in the expert clause that the parties have the right to make representations . |
| 17 | Erm I hope it may be of some interest . |
| 18 | I have just prepared a paper for my Executive Committee on this and I have enclosed a copy in the hope it might be of some value . |
| 19 | The fearsome riots that swept the inner cities in 1981 , in Brixton first , then Toxteth and Hansworth , Moss Side and Bristol , came as no surprise , and convinced Charles that this was the area where he could be of some use . |
| 20 | In its present form it would be of some value to the company historian but in public institutions , its status as a record , and therefore its management needs to be decided before we can determine its retention . |
| 21 | I guess that most of that is old hat to most of you but I 'm sure it will be of some use to somebody somewhere … |