Example sentences of "be [prep] much [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid I have n't been of much help to you , Mr Millet . ’ |
| 2 | Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help . |
| 3 | Whatever serious business was discussed by the two Emperors remains unrecorded , but it is unlikely to have been of much substance , for Napoleon III found that his host was constrained by the new constitutional structure which had emerged after the defeat of 1866 . |
| 4 | At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance . |
| 5 | He took a pristine white handkerchief out of his pocket and rubbed at the faint hand-print Kenneth had left on the glass partition as he said , ‘ These passivation glasses are of much use in the semi-conductor industry , and we have high hopes that with the burgeoning of the Scottish computer industry Silicon Glen as it is sometimes jocularly called — we shall shortly be supplying … ’ |
| 6 | In abandoning the sutures as a method of ageing , few features of the skull except the dentition are of much use for our purpose . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think you 're in much danger . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But he was not himself able to be of much help . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm afraid I ca n't be of much help , ’ Meredith said . |
| 12 | It would not be of much help to him , and it would alert any intruder that he was on his way . |
| 13 | The cross was too large to be of much help , and the words on the back of the map were no better . |
| 14 | ‘ Tony , ’ he said , ‘ I do n't think I can be of much help to you . |
| 15 | I do n't think you can be of much help to me , Doctor . |
| 16 | There is no copyright in a fictitious name and an action in passing-off is unlikely to be of much help if the defendant uses that name in relation to different goods or services . |
| 17 | There is thus a tendency to build up a strong personal relationship over a long time , and slick high-pressure selling techniques are unlikely to be of much help . |
| 18 | Japan could be of much importance in the event of war and it might be feasible for the Japanese to fight for the United States after a war had begun . |
| 19 | Secretion of bile is not usually considered to be of much importance in this response since the gall bladder procides a mechanism for rapid delivery of bile into the duodenum at mealtime . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Method ( 2 ) , as discussed in chapter 3 , may not be of much value if managers do not stay long enough in one position . |
| 22 | In fact the uncertainty is so wide that is doubtful if the forecast would be of much value . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The domestic arrangements of an elderly bachelor like myself can not be of much interest to anyone . |
| 25 | I could do this for you , but it would n't be of much interest unless you were familiar with the stories I read . |
| 26 | This seems to indicate that the igfet should not be of much use and , indeed , this is the case at low frequencies of operation . |
| 27 | Modern penitentials wo n't be of much use to future historians of the twentieth century , but eleventh-century penitentials might be , rich as they are in the prejudices of our enlightened age — particularly the inferior status of women . |
| 28 | Matters were not helped by the Sabina Park authorities providing one sightscreen that was too low to be of much use if the bowler was over six feet ( 1.8 metres ) tall , and when England complained after the game against Jamaica the reply was that it could not be raised without obscuring the view of some two hundred people who had already bought tickets . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But will the flood of computers be of much use ? |