Example sentences of "would [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emphasis of this ‘ directed ’ ( or controlled ? ) research , it was announced , ‘ is to be on pragmatic , problem-solving enquiries ’ ( i.e. policy-orientated research ) , which , it was explained , ‘ would be of cost-effective advantage to the force ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Any 8-bit microprocessor will work , since no multiplication or division is necessary in the software , although it would be of advantage to use a 16-bit device to do the scaling of signals internally . |
| 4 | Apart from clearing Mansell 's name if they upheld the appeal , the FIA tribunal would be of little further use to either the Englishman or his team . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A majority for Imperial preference in a general election would be of little use from the Dominion point of view , since it was ‘ obvious that the whole system might be capsized in a year or two . |
| 7 | Brokers at Nomura Research , the Japanese financial giant , said a halt of supplies for one day would be of ‘ minor consequence ’ . |
| 8 | It would be of no great help to pronounce the body of an object genuine if the interest , and hence the value , lay in the inscription . |
| 9 | If they were genuine imports into prehistoric Britain then they would be of some importance in suggesting trade networks . |
| 10 | What O'Neillism did for Paisleyism was to raise in a concrete way the possibility of change from being a Protestant society and culture ( constantly threatened by the old enemy within and without ) to being a secular modern society in which religious affiliation would be of little consequence . |
| 11 | Domesticated horses , again like , people , can be conditioned to have other needs too , and can learn to like or want something which would be of no interest to a wild horse . |
| 12 | But he rather doubted , he said , glancing around mordantly , that shamanistic powers would be of any interest to such a gathering . |
| 13 | The lane down to the harbour was steep ; the oncoming wind would be of positive benefit . |
| 14 | One of the school 's main aims is to raise enough money for a second indoor sports base , which would be of benefit to both the school and the local community . |
| 15 | Sunday league matches would be of 50 overs a side instead of the existing 40 , and group preliminary matches in the Benson and Hedges Cup would be replaced by a knock-out competition . |
| 16 | To avoid divisiveness the Board also proposed that ‘ … it would be of advantage if Resident Tutors were kept informed of the activities of the WEA in the urban districts of their respective counties ’ . |
| 17 | From the outset however they set themselves the objectives , not only producing a comprehensive study of land ownership in the region which would be of use to local groups and also capable of influencing regional and National land policy , but equally importantly , of reaching these goals through a very specific manner of research . |
| 18 | In some areas , such as in Scotland , increased production would be of existing commodities , such as sheep-meat , but produced from grass rather than from imported soya or petroleum derivatives . |
| 19 | When rooted by the autumn and replanted this would , in due course , become a fine bush and one superior to those budded or grafted because its suckers would be of the same kind . |
| 20 | Perhaps a visit to the glass-animal maker in the Bat House would be of interest , and no visit to the park would be complete without a browse around the spacious gift shop where you can purchase a memento of your visit . |
| 21 | With less than an hour of daylight remaining , he carried a flashlight — not that it would be of much help with the rain cascading down as if the Maya Rain God had corralled every raincloud in Central America and pulled the plugs out . |
| 22 | Such an alternator would be of great use in a motorcaravan conversion I intend doing on a V8 Land Rover . |
| 23 | At the very time this highly specialised library of books on the cotton industry was being dispersed , without even being checked against the holdings of the British Library — the book here listed is not to be found in their catalogue — the New Mills Heritage Centre was trying to put together a collection of books which would be of use to students visiting what had been , among other achievements , the home of the British calico printing industry . |
| 24 | Clearly these libraries might contain information that would be of use to an enemy . |
| 25 | As such it is of great interest to the oil companies but for China the discovery of a province as big as the North Sea province or the Alaskan province would be of inestimable importance . |
| 26 | If , as it may be , such a system would cost more to operate than grant payments do , it would be of little advantage except in the important psychological sense that it would be a greater personal investment by the farmer over a longer time period . |
| 27 | On being informed of this , King Louis of France instantly had Winstanley released , declaring , ‘ We are at War with England , not with humanity ’ , and the lighthouse would be of benefit to all nations . |
| 28 | After several years he displayed the results in London in 1804 but said himself that the calves at one month old were ‘ as fat as quails ’ , though he declared that in due course the hide , flesh , milk and tallow would be of superior quality and value . |
| 29 | He had studied closely the threat posed by a reorganized Wednesday side but insisted that his own presence at Sheffield would be of psychological value to Arsenal on the Saturday . |
| 30 | There was a celebrated individual who devoted a large part of his life to carefully recording everything that he observed ; upon his death , this complete set of observations was presented to the Royal Society in the hope that it would be of use to scientists . |