Example sentences of "[prep] [be] of any use " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The priority was to get hold of some more men , although they would first have to be trained up to SAS standards before being of any use on operations . |
| 2 | This order was annulled on 26 October by the Smolensk guberniia party committee for being excessive and too late to be of any use . |
| 3 | Recognizing that audiences could never identify with nobs , Hitchcock 's films showed ordinary people going through extraordinary experiences : ‘ The upper classes , ’ he remarked , ‘ are too ‘ bottled up ’ to be of any use as colourful screen material , too stiffened with breeding to relax into the natural easiness and normality required by the screen . ’ |
| 4 | These need to be as specific as possible , including a timetable for action if they are to be of any use . |
| 5 | The Western-financed dams received all the attention ; the numerous jobs that needed to be done if the dams were going to be of any use had scant priority . |
| 6 | To be of any use as a tool of business control , financial records must be up-to-date . |
| 7 | Mrs Stych protested coyly that she did not know enough about books to be of any use , while she wondered privately how she was going to fit this new commitment into her already overcrowded schedule of social events . |
| 8 | Editor , — If operative mortality is to be of any use as an indicator of quality in cardiac surgery a system of risk stratification must be in place . |
| 9 | Combine these two flaws and there 's often a lack of players on-screen at one time — the scanner does n't help matters as it 's too small to be of any use . |
| 10 | The eye-spots , to be of any use , must be linked to muscles so that the animal can react to what it senses . |
| 11 | The ownership of archaeological finds depends on the local laws ( in some countries all archaeological artefacts are automatically the property of the state and have to be reported , while in others the finds belong to the owner of the land on which they were found ) , but whatever the ownership , each find needs to be properly recorded if it is to be of any use archaeologically . |
| 12 | The man in the doorway was certainly old and infirm , and none too reliable either , but when he ceased to be of any use to the Guild as a working docker , they had found him a sinecure job as night watchman on the Wharf . |
| 13 | Most of the systems , including the spectronic destabilizer ( handy for blasting planets ) , were too large scale in their effects to be of any use in this situation . |
| 14 | Though fugue is regarded as too tonal a form to be of any use , many other old contrapuntal devices of the Renaissance and Baroque periods have been revived in serial composition , especially canon in its many forms . |
| 15 | ‘ If you 're going to be of any use to me at all , the work has to start now . ’ |
| 16 | To be of any use they must be given clearly and in good time . |
| 17 | And the tried and true w , tested , the tried and tested ways are n't necessarily going to be of any use to you . |