Example sentences of "to [be] useful [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the Cogelow tools , I found it necessary to grind new bevels completely for these tools to be useful for intricate ornament . |
| 2 | to be useful for teachers and parents and children to read as an informative and convincing story of the child 's progress over the years |
| 3 | This will influence the teacher 's or therapist 's decision regarding whether or not the test is likely to be useful for a particular child and for a particular purpose . |
| 4 | This kind of interaction is consistently recognized as important for the authoring of documents and seems likely to be useful for document reuse as well . |
| 5 | The Universal Decimal Classification was devised with a very fine specification , and as such is found to be useful for technical libraries and for information retrieval . |
| 6 | Our collections are a very important European resource , and have the potential to be useful for scientific purposes to all Member States . |
| 7 | Over half of teachers found the LEA guidelines to be useful for writing the report ; a quarter had found them not very useful and a fifth were unsure about this . |
| 8 | It 's marvellous that the Brighton Corporation came in , but nevertheless the building to perform a function which is going to be useful for the community as a whole has got to be properly funded . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For day to day purposes a knowledge of the following has generally been found to be useful to practising managers : |
| 11 | The rainforest is also held to be useful to us because it will help to mitigate the worst impacts of global warming . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There is no problem here if the information is very specialised and only likely to be useful to a few outlets . |
| 15 | I was brought up to be useful to a man . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She 's an even weaker fool than her brother , but she 's going to be useful to me . |
| 18 | Perhaps he ceased to be useful to her once she 'd had some success in England — I do n't know . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The following list is a guide intended to be useful to graduates or qualified persons wishing to take a further course of study . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He wo n't have so much time for the horses , so I 'm going to be useful at least . " |
| 24 | Typically the gain becomes too small to be useful at frequencies above ∼100 kHz . |
| 25 | The cold fusion with muons , ‘ muon catalysed fusion ’ , can occur and has been seen to happen ; however , it does not seem to happen fast enough to be useful as an energy source . |
| 26 | These comments suggest that the test is unlikely to be useful as a screening instrument but , when used in conjunction with other tests or with children who have already been identified as having language difficulties , it may assist in the generation of a balanced assessment of a child 's strengths and weaknesses . |
| 27 | A 7:1 ratio gives both a pleasing shape and sufficient depth to be useful as a fruit bowl . |
| 28 | To be useful as a research technique , they must offer more than description , yet to go beyond description is to interpret . |
| 29 | What is most likely to be useful in such material is the chance that inferences can be drawn by the reader , seeing a similarity in a problem elsewhere with a question in the visual arts . |
| 30 | The analyses that were constructed for these frescos were found to be useful in the examination of more famous works . |