Example sentences of "[modal v] be [prep] great " in BNC.
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| 31 | But the shattered gabbro of the Troodos ophiolite may well hold water , and information gained by drilling into it may be of great practical value on this semi-arid island . |
| 32 | Secondly , in family abuse , the history of the relationships may be of great significance in current abuse . |
| 33 | Alternatively it may be of great specialist interest to the readers of a particular set of publications but of no personal interest or use to the staff on those journals . |
| 34 | An arguably more compelling situation where a Commissioner may be of great use is in the area of unfair dismissal actions before an Industrial Tribunal . |
| 35 | Nevertheless the Cuk converter topology seems likely to remain an outsider until a true trade-off comparison can be made between Cuk and Buck at a series of realistic equivalent performance levels , a task that would take a lot of time , but whose results would be of great interest to many in the power supply design field . |
| 36 | A more detailed life of Lord Reading , Liberal leader in the House of Lords and an important actor in the events of 1931 , would be of great value . |
| 37 | Such an alternator would be of great use in a motorcaravan conversion I intend doing on a V8 Land Rover . |
| 38 | ( 3 ) Your house has come up in a random sample of houses in this area and , if you are a full-time housewife , we would like you to tell us about your working day since ( 4 ) we believe that a survey of this subject would be of great value in helping all housewives . |
| 39 | Clearly , their thermal maturity would be of great interest , as Silurian shales are also known to subcrop south of the Thames Estuary ( Wills 1973 ) . |
| 40 | ‘ It would be of great help . ’ |
| 41 | It is known that the RUC has accumulated considerable evidence which would be of great interest to an impartial inquiry . |
| 42 | Furthermore , the stigmatising effects of a residual model of service provision , by which the state intervened with direct help only when all else fails , would be of great concern . |
| 43 | Welford Beaton thought that its examination of the progress of cotton from field to factory would be of great educational value and he urged distributors to put the film into every motion-picture theatre in the world . |
| 44 | Any progress to be made in this almost uncharted area would be of great significance to communication and those who apply it . |
| 45 | The frustration of life without a torch , illustrated by either a feature or a demonstration , could interest the men 's press , and special car fitments for fixing a torch inside the car would be of great interest to the motoring media . |
| 46 | I if that could be copied er perhaps er that would be of great assistance . |
| 47 | Meanwhile it would be of great help if the accuracy of death certification could be improved , possibly through audit . |
| 48 | In 1982 the Soviet Third World specialist Primakov asserted that ‘ an understanding on the military neutralisation of a number of regions where an accumulation of armed forces and armaments is taking place would be of great significance ’ . |
| 49 | This would be of great educational value to new members giving tips and ways of how other embalmers around the country practice their work . |
| 50 | The regional CBI believed that that would be of great benefit and was grateful for my right hon. Friend 's measures to alleviate the uniform business rate . |
| 51 | If it were abandoned , the burden on local authorities of trying to collect what the Prime Minister described as a virtually uncollectable tax would be substantially lightened , and that would be of great benefit . |
| 52 | The most immediate practical benefits are likely to be in foreign language teaching , where clear statements of the rules of gender would be of great value . |
| 53 | So to a certain extent the idea was to that if we had the thing worked out it would be of great benefit to the people who were popping by . |
| 54 | If honourable members would in fact stick to the debate in that particular way and in fact er er it would be of great advantage of the house it is a short debate er and and going off the the main scope of the debate in fact leaves less time for other people to speak . |
| 55 | I think fox-hunting in Islington would be quite indefensible : with all those cars and buses , the hounds and horses would be in great danger , as would the huntsmen themselves and the foxes . |
| 56 | There were untold numbers of pleasure boats : some skimming over the bay , while others were closely berthed within the harbour , waiting the evening hour , when they would be in great demand . |
| 57 | But many ground-living birds would be in great difficulties if their chicks hatched at markedly different times . |
| 58 | If word reached Meredith Putt that there had been witnesses to his crime Seb would be in great danger . |
| 59 | In a June 4 editorial entitled Stability overrides all other considerations , Renmin Ribao ( the People 's Daily ) , the Communist Party newspaper , commented that " China would be in great chaos now " if the 1989 " rebellion " had not been quelled . |
| 60 | ‘ 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 ? |