Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [det] help " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( These diets could be said to have been half-right , in that they did cut out refined carbohydrates , but unfortunately without adding fibre-rich carbohydrate foods which we now know to be of such help to slimmers . ) |
| 2 | Unluckily , this may be of little help to the reader if the pictures illustrated are used as mere decoration , and not the subject of critical discussion . |
| 3 | Tony 's GP had prescribed the medication for his sleeping difficulties , but he had only taken it on two occasions , finding the tablets to be of little help . |
| 4 | This measure may be of use to health care planners , but , even if it is eventually validated and accepted as an equitable way of allocating resources , it will be of little help to general practitioners , whose decisions are mostly concerned with managing self limiting minor illnesses . |
| 5 | In this context , the linguist 's proclamation of the functional equality of all varieties can be of little help . |
| 6 | In most cases , the kind of predictions about successive words which are possible from the preceding context are much less specific and would select a very large class of words , which would be of little help in discriminating between possible candidates . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But he was not himself able to be of much help . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm afraid I ca n't be of much help , ’ Meredith said . |
| 11 | It would not be of much help to him , and it would alert any intruder that he was on his way . |
| 12 | The cross was too large to be of much help , and the words on the back of the map were no better . |
| 13 | ‘ Tony , ’ he said , ‘ I do n't think I can be of much help to you . |
| 14 | I do n't think you can be of much help to me , Doctor . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | as if a homicidal maniac on cocaine could be of any help … |
| 18 | In order to help such children , it is necessary to introduce novel and artificial procedures to assist learning and it is therefore unlikely that an understanding of normal processes will be of any help . |
| 19 | If I can be of any help … since we had our talk , I too have begun to have doubts . |
| 20 | Ca n't he be of any help at all ? ’ |
| 21 | My dealer lacks sufficient knowledge to be of any help . |
| 22 | If the information has been divulged to sufficient people so that it can be said to be no longer confidential , an injunction will not be of any help ; it would be like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted . |
| 23 | Spartak have a good reputation away from the Lenin Stadium and the Kop will need to be at its most intimidating to be of any help to a Liverpool side whose only consistency this season has been their inconsistency . |
| 24 | She hinted that she could be of more help to them than her brother , provided that they left him alone in his present state of health . |
| 25 | ‘ Sorry I ca n't be of more help . |
| 26 | A serious extension of the simple analysis presented in the previous paragraph would be of more help than a thousand more studies documenting that socio-economic differentials in mortality exist . |
| 27 | Sorry not to be of more help . |
| 28 | Sorry I could n't be of more help . |
| 29 | I have told this story in the hope that it may be of some help to other adoptive parents , and out of the profound belief that love is the most important thing in the world . |
| 30 | ‘ Livée , perhaps you can be of some help to Citizen Vaubrun , ’ said Mme de Ratho pointedly . |