Example sentences of "[prep] [be] useful to " in BNC.

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1 Roy Lambe , aged 25 , of Belfast , was charged with having two rifles , a pistol and ammunition with intent to endanger life ; possessing information likely to be useful to terrorists and raising money for the illegal loyalist group the Red Hand Commandos .
2 For day to day purposes a knowledge of the following has generally been found to be useful to practising managers :
3 The rainforest is also held to be useful to us because it will help to mitigate the worst impacts of global warming .
4 To be useful to the ‘ non-expert ’ professional , they must include items which are easily understood and which translate easily from relatively casual observation of the child .
5 Section 2 of the 1920 Act provides that communicating with a foreign agent is evidence of obtaining or attempting to obtain information calculated or intended to be useful to an enemy contrary to section 1 of the Act .
6 There is no problem here if the information is very specialised and only likely to be useful to a few outlets .
7 I was brought up to be useful to a man .
8 Now you 'll recall I said that we will we will try and isolate try and isolate throughout the afternoon those things which are going to be useful to you .
9 She 's an even weaker fool than her brother , but she 's going to be useful to me .
10 Perhaps he ceased to be useful to her once she 'd had some success in England — I do n't know .
11 For these to be useful to schools , teachers need to find economical ways of distinguishing authorised from unauthorised absence , of distinguishing ‘ real ’ from condoned absence and to look for patterns of absence taking actual pupils as the starting point rather than a more generalised attendance rate .
12 The following list is a guide intended to be useful to graduates or qualified persons wishing to take a further course of study .
13 Garland denies possessing two photographs and information about the security forces likely to be useful to terrorists and making his house available to the IRA on August 2 , 1991 .
14 In this book , we tried to develop a somewhat new approach to grammar , based on the idea that grammar , to be useful to the learner , should be ‘ communicative ’ , i.e. should relate the forms and structures of the language to their meaning and use In terms of the number of copies sold , this has been the most successful book of which I have been an author .
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