Example sentences of "be [prep] much " in BNC.
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| 31 | But will the flood of computers be of much use ? |
| 32 | In most cases this will not be of much use , but at this stage there is nothing to lose . |
| 33 | I see only two men , and a bridge too low yet to be of much use to anyone . |
| 34 | This was really unnecessary , since a body would have been far too decomposed after eight to ten days to be of much use to any medical school . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | By then a complete overhaul is often too late to be of much use . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | But he was not himself able to be of much help . |
| 40 | The little volume , which deals with cooking out of doors for motorists , cyclists , campers , walkers , and fishermen has never been translated into English and would n't be of much practical use to us if it were , because the majority of the recipes are based on the products to be bought at the " village charcutier " , an institution which does n't exist in the British Isles . |
| 41 | After all , even the official sales pitches were often too uninformative , or too ill-spelt and ungrammatical to be of much use . |
| 42 | Conversely , psychology itself has been in no shape to deliver the goods it promised : if educationists were atheoretical , psychologists for their part were producing theories which were too crude to be of much use to educational researchers . |
| 43 | It is important to make the correct diagnosis , for fungal treatments are unlikely to be of much use against bacteria and vice versa . |
| 44 | ‘ I 'm afraid I ca n't be of much help , ’ Meredith said . |
| 45 | Nor will the legal guarantee of freedom of speech be of much use if access to the mass media is severely restricted . |
| 46 | It would not be of much help to him , and it would alert any intruder that he was on his way . |
| 47 | The cross was too large to be of much help , and the words on the back of the map were no better . |
| 48 | Although baby universes may not be of much use for space travel , they have important implications for our attempt to find a complete unified theory that will describe everything in the universe . |
| 49 | Method ( 2 ) , as discussed in chapter 3 , may not be of much value if managers do not stay long enough in one position . |
| 50 | A planning process which fails to accept this … is unlikely to be of much use in the realities of business life . |
| 51 | He learned nothing that would be of much use to Lorton . |
| 52 | ‘ Tony , ’ he said , ‘ I do n't think I can be of much help to you . |
| 53 | In fact the uncertainty is so wide that is doubtful if the forecast would be of much value . |
| 54 | In either case , it would not be of much use as a source of heat and light for life on Earth . |
| 55 | The domestic arrangements of an elderly bachelor like myself can not be of much interest to anyone . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | I do n't think you can be of much help to me , Doctor . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | I could do this for you , but it would n't be of much interest unless you were familiar with the stories I read . |
| 60 | 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 . |