Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So Wilson 's work of ‘ Cader Idris ’ , even if only seen by Green as a print , must have been of seminal interest . |
| 32 | ‘ The brilliant inventiveness of the engineers and scientists … would have been of little avail if this strong industrial base had not existed . ’ |
| 33 | In our view , routine casework unsupported by an active programme of service development would have been of little value and would probably have degenerated into a frustrating cycle of ‘ patch and mend ’ crisis management . |
| 34 | It would have been of little comfort to investors to learn that Chairman John Wheeler had , according to former business colleagues , been living a luxury lifestyle , spending almost £70,000 on refitting his yacht , and thousands of pounds renovating his six-bedroom house . |
| 35 | Firstly , the hypotensive effect of this drug may not have been of sufficient size to reduce microalbuminuria . |
| 36 | Had it been broad enough to have included the purpose of the great organised movement its contribution could have been of historical value . |
| 37 | Fenella thought that it was a pity that Caspar was so scared of the giants , because he knew so much about Tara that he might have been of considerable help . |
| 38 | One must appreciate that with the passing of time all things progress ; what may have been of considerable interest to one generation may not be to the next . |
| 39 | This book is useful but could have been of more value if it had been more clearly grounded in practice . |
| 40 | When services were concentrated in large hospitals , it was possible for good managers to keep a watchful eye open for the danger signals , and although the physical and emotional environment may not have been of high quality , most residents would be properly fed and clothed and protected from abuse . |
| 41 | A good response to training was associated with improved squeeze duration in our patients , but increased conidence in mastering anorectal function may also have been of some benefit . |
| 42 | Gould 's arrangements for his own children were meticulously considered , which must have been of some consolation to his wife , who had dutifully resolved to accompany her husband to Australia . |
| 43 | It seems odd at first sight that Celsus senior should have been of this view , and odder that he managed to persuade Ducenius Varus ( consul in AD 95 ) and his colleagues that it was the correct one . |
| 44 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 45 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 46 | Unless the buyer can show that there was a latent defect present in the goods at the time of delivery which later became manifest ( and hence that the goods could not have been of merchantable quality at the time of delivery ) he may be left with no remedy . |
| 47 | It is likely too that the priest tidied up and eliminated any traces there may have been of disordered thinking or language , as he almost certainly corrected any theological mistakes , for his own safety . |
| 48 | But most importantly , no information was given on the location of recurrence of the disease which may have been of prognostic importance . |
| 49 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 50 | The sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal presumably incorporates a discount to reflect the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , but there is no indication of the extent of the discount : the case is therefore of limited value as an indication of what the proper sentence would have been at first instance . |
| 51 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 52 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 53 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 54 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 55 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |
| 56 | Well it would have been at one time . |
| 57 | It was an insignificant point in its way , for Harry knew from Marjorie Mallender that Clare had met Minter whilst at Oxford — he must simply have been at another college — yet somehow his faith in his own reasoning was undermined . |
| 58 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
| 59 | This very large accession takes up where the first deposit stopped , and covers the years 1861 to 1920 , in addition to some titles and papers of earlier date which must have been at some time extracted from their proper place . |
| 60 | The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles . |