Example sentences of "not be of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She will try to accept the fact , as she takes her mother 's ‘ elevenses ’ in to her , that any attempt she may make to start a discussion of something that might not be of immediate interest to her mother may be turned off suddenly like a switch , and will plunge her temporarily into an emotional darkness in which she will feel very much alone . |
| 2 | I remind my hon. Friend the Minister , who has Scottish ancestry , that to upset large numbers of railway enthusiasts in Scotland would not be of additional help to the Conservative party north of the border . |
| 3 | A broad awareness of the details of initial teacher education will not be of great assistance to a school other than to bring into some kind of focus an activity which used to appear to be both distant and unrelated . |
| 4 | This need not be of great concern to management , however , given the capacity of most companies to finance themselves through retained earnings . |
| 5 | In the student example , the fact that the person is female may not be of great significance and therefore there could be an attribute ‘ sex ’ of the person entity . |
| 6 | Although the issue may not be of great interest in urban areas , it is important in rural areas , and I wonder whether the Bill will tackle the problem of road widths and the width of vehicles travelling down narrow country lanes . |
| 7 | Some mannerisms may not be of great use to the interviewer in assessing your character but they may work against you by being irritating . |
| 8 | This can be difficult to organize and may not be of great use to the teacher either in planning lessons or in providing feedback for diagnostic purposes . |
| 9 | On some occasions it may not be of great importance to the patient 's health whether he is treated at that time or perhaps at all . |
| 10 | Naturally we lose some points at the beginning and end ( four in this case ) but this may not be of great importance in a long series . |
| 11 | In Case 1 we saw how the Nuer linked legitimacy to the payment of bridecattle ; in Case 2 Nayar legitimacy was established by the child 's mother being of the proper social age , a " mother " and not a " child " , with the added proviso that the presumed genitor must not be of lower caste than the mother . |
| 12 | Extensive microbiological evaluation obviously increases the number of abnormalities detected ; however , these may or may not be of pathogenic relevance as also indicated by the persistence of symptoms after eradication of several infective agents reported by others . |
| 13 | The FCC 's cleverly contrived technical contest may have helped accelerate the move to digital broadcasting , but that may not be of much help to the terrestrial TV broadcasters it had hoped to escort into the digital age , nor give much of an edge to American equipment makers . |
| 14 | It would not be of much help to him , and it would alert any intruder that he was on his way . |
| 15 | In any case , as we shall see in Chapter 8 , strengths very greatly in excess of I per cent of the Young 's modulus may not be of much interest in practical engineering . |
| 16 | The domestic arrangements of an elderly bachelor like myself can not be of much interest to anyone . |
| 17 | This seems to indicate that the igfet should not be of much use and , indeed , this is the case at low frequencies of operation . |
| 18 | In opposition to centrally imposed ‘ local economic strategies ’ , these initiatives of the left explicitly recognize that what is appropriate in one place , may not be of much use in another . |
| 19 | In most cases this will not be of much use , but at this stage there is nothing to lose . |
| 20 | Although baby universes may not be of much use for space travel , they have important implications for our attempt to find a complete unified theory that will describe everything in the universe . |
| 21 | In either case , it would not be of much use as a source of heat and light for life on Earth . |
| 22 | The Governor , Sir David Wilson , has argued for a general ‘ right of entry ’ to Britain — though such a ‘ right ’ could not be of much value if it were not ordinarily convertible into full citizenship . |
| 23 | Method ( 2 ) , as discussed in chapter 3 , may not be of much value if managers do not stay long enough in one position . |
| 24 | ‘ The threat need not be of extreme violence . |
| 25 | Since this represents only one per cent of projected capacity , it will not be of significant help in meeting concern over weapons production . |
| 26 | The occasional hairline crack in external brickwork need not be of any significance , but should be observed over a period to see if it extends or widens . |
| 27 | As far as any remedy in damages is concerned this point will not be of any significance and it is most unlikely that any action would be brought in a business secrets case unless some damage or advantage to a competitor had occurred or was thought likely to do so . |
| 28 | If the information has been divulged to sufficient people so that it can be said to be no longer confidential , an injunction will not be of any help ; it would be like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted . |
| 29 | Warton replies : ‘ It can not be of any use to the dead themselves . |
| 30 | ‘ Go on , Wilson , though it may not be of any use . ’ |