Example sentences of "it could be of " in BNC.

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1 What he 's doing might be considered unfortunate for the baby — though I 'm not sure it is — but it could be of immense value to humanity as a whole . ’
2 It could be of interest , so taking a piece of cotton waste out of my pocket , I cleaned the accumulated filth off it , only to discover that on it was stamped ON-OFF .
3 Thus the intrinsic value of something follows from its intrinsic nature , so that nothing exactly like it could be of a different intrinsic value , while yet it is not one of the features one could properly list in indicating what something else would have to be like to be just like this thing .
4 It could be of use to ‘ first-order ’ , empirically based subjects , but it could learn nothing from them .
5 What is worth considering is whether it could be of help if ‘ things were improved ’ .
6 ( Among the virtues of reparation are that it could be of great value in assisting the ‘ reintegration ’ of offenders , as we discuss shortly . )
7 It could be of course , that we 're too near to them , because if you think about it , this has happened to most great pioneers in , in science , they were , for the first erm , certainly for the first century , there 's often a tremendous er , rejection .
8 In 1946 , they had rejected his regime ; now , when it could be of use to them , he was going to make sure that any cooperation was given on his terms and in his good time .
9 High Wycombe and Eccles could be earlier than the latter , as they are datable to before c. 175 A.D. , whereas it could be of the third century .
10 It could be of the erm
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