Example sentences of "this [modal v] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unluckily , this may be of little help to the reader if the pictures illustrated are used as mere decoration , and not the subject of critical discussion . |
| 2 | This may be of advantage to the developer too , attracting passers-by , even though they may initially be looking for a short cut . |
| 3 | This may be of considerable importance , for in the non-diabetic there are long-established relationships between lipid and lipoprotein levels and macrovascular disease ( Gordon et al , 1981 ; Miller et al , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | I hope this may be of some use , and look forward to reading more on the subject in future editions . |
| 5 | This may be of particular value to investors from Germany and Switzerland , where the tax-sparing provisions in the Portuguese double tax treaties may be used in conjunction with a Madeira tax-exempt company to reduce the financing costs in multinational groups . |
| 6 | In that the directors are often likely to be better disposed to the workforce than are the shareholders this may be of some practical importance . |
| 7 | This may be of some value , but the plan should be made to work harder . |
| 8 | I hope this may be of help . |
| 9 | I hope this may be of interest . |
| 10 | This may be of pure sample , but more often it is diluted with a salt , usually KBr . |
| 11 | This may be of particular benefit in paediatric liver diseases where the diagnosis of PSC may be made without resorting to invasive techniques . |
| 12 | This may be of use in looking at early events , such as occur during the establishment of tolerance ; thereby facilitating the task of looking at low numbers of cells . |
| 13 | This should be of a fine grain size to allow the female to do the small amount of digging necessary to convert her cave into an ideal home for herself and her fry . |
| 14 | This should be of benefit to small businesses , since it is a cheap way of connecting single PCs and sharing expensive resources such as printers and fax modems . |
| 15 | What are the pharmaceutical companies , to which this should be of interest , doing about it ? |
| 16 | Why this should be of such importance in the minds of you and me , and all the others from the world of the nineteen-forties I do not know . |
| 17 | It 's been estimated that this might be of the order of one cubic kilometre per year . |
| 18 | This might be of benefit in the construction of the meaning of the sentence , or it might be useful in helping to decide where to look next on the page . |
| 19 | Moreover , a secretary attached to a legation or an embassy and not to an individual minister or ambassador , and remaining at his post over a fairly long period , could become a valuable source of information about local conditions : this might be of great help to a new head of mission coming to a strange country of which he knew little . |
| 20 | Erm what , what I said to you earlier was that er at the very beginning where you could help me was if , if you found this of value to you , this service that I 've just provided , erm perhaps you could erm th there might be er some friends of yours that er you might find that this might be of beneficial to . |
| 21 | This would be of obvious benefit to the spider , whose web would last longer , but it would also help the bird to avoid getting dirtied by sticky spider silk . |
| 22 | But this would be of limited value to the defendant , since any costs recovered by the defendant would be subject to a charge in favour of the board under section 16 of the Act and the operation of regulation 103 of the Civil Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1989 , the detail of which I need not examine , and would have the effect in this case that the defendant would in fact recover only a very small proportion of the costs he actually incurred . |
| 23 | This would be of great educational value to new members giving tips and ways of how other embalmers around the country practice their work . |
| 24 | Alternatively , one of our London based members , The Hon would , I am sure , be willing to come and discuss our work with you if this would be of value ? |
| 25 | This would be of little significance if the Chronicle in question were not the only source to record some important episodes . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , this will be of great help in ordering raw materials , but sometimes we get part deliveries , could we have an extra facility to deal with those ? |
| 27 | This will be of great help to both of us when we come to continue his therapeutic treatment . |
| 28 | Parents ' views are explored and this will be of value in the implementation of the new Children Act 1989 which will require greater attention to parents ' views . |
| 29 | We hope this will be of value to both feminists and philosophers approaching these questions for the first time . |
| 30 | This will be of crucial importance in 1992 when Common Market deregulation leads to open competition in Europe and a more mobile labour market . |