Example sentences of "[be] of use to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the very time this highly specialised library of books on the cotton industry was being dispersed , without even being checked against the holdings of the British Library — the book here listed is not to be found in their catalogue — the New Mills Heritage Centre was trying to put together a collection of books which would be of use to students visiting what had been , among other achievements , the home of the British calico printing industry . |
| 2 | The purpose of this study is to determine whether accounting practices need to be adjusted or developed if they are to be of use to firms operating in the highly changeful high technology sectors . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The conclusions to this study are expected to be of use to policy-makers in deciding where help in promoting a better trained workforce is most needed . |
| 5 | The resulting work will be of use to policy-makers by providing a critical , through assessment in a field dominated by myths and emotions |
| 6 | The research produced will be of use to policy-makers , administrators and social scientists in promoting interdisciplinary work and adapting to changes in their disciplines . |
| 7 | These models may be of use to marketers in dealing with particular problems , such as the relative importance of advertising or price in influencing consumer purchase behaviour . |
| 8 | Owen , feeling at last that he ought to retire from contra matters — — but remembering what he had sworn ‘ on the altar of God ’ — hoped that he might still be of use to North ‘ against another group of Godless communists . ’ |
| 9 | The idea is to create goodwill by producing a really helpful guide or a series of ideas which will be of use to customers and potential customers . |
| 10 | From the start , she made it clear that as long as I could be of use to Jean-Claude she would tolerate me , but that my relationship with her son was in her gift and subject to her approval , and this might not always be forthcoming . |
| 11 | This measure may be of use to health care planners , but , even if it is eventually validated and accepted as an equitable way of allocating resources , it will be of little help to general practitioners , whose decisions are mostly concerned with managing self limiting minor illnesses . |
| 12 | In Germany , most companies are partnerships , rather than quoted companies , and they are exempt from disclosing information which could be of use to competitors . |
| 13 | A fourth will be charged with having information likely to be of use to terrorists . |
| 14 | James Stewart , aged 23 , of Belfast , was accused of having documents on IRA suspects likely to be of use to terrorists planning murder . |
| 15 | Sir Robert Dalyell of the Binns clearly saw himself in that light when , in 1760 , he approached Lord Milton to inform him of his wish to be of use to Milton 's politics in West Lothiah . |
| 16 | Or whether it was a feeling that this is wonderful , because it would be of use to mankind . |