Example sentences of "be [prep] any real " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this needs to be related to the situation in vivo to be of any real use . |
| 2 | To be of any real value core units have to be fairly big for the reasons discussed . |
| 3 | Wendler recognises that object-oriented technology will play a central role in the distributed management systems of the future , though it is too immature to be of any real use at present , he says — ‘ the class definition stuff that OMG is working on now is much more important than the Object Request Broker . ’ |
| 4 | But to be of any real use giveaways must be both useful or decorative and relevant to the product or service you are promoting . |
| 5 | For speech recognition to be of any real use , however , the computer must seem to ‘ understand ’ the speech as fast as another human , the number crunching approach rarely achieves this . |
| 6 | This was the old slug 's vicious inheritance , Carson thought bitterly , to dump the money on me before I 'd had a chance to learn how to fight for it or to handle it and too late for it to be of any real use . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose , McAllister , if you 're going to be of any real use to me — ’ He was interrupted by Rose bursting in , a Greek chorus of depressed-looking women following her . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think they 'd be in any real danger as long as you lock up securely . |
| 9 | Although persistent overlapping and the resultant anomalies means that none of these economic groupings were exclusive , the character of each is governed by the bias of its composition ; the minor gentlemen comprehended in the £10. — £19 range for instance , were too heavily outnumbered to be in any real sense typical of it . |
| 10 | Many managers like to think that while they must inevitably bargain this can surely be without any real element of conflict . |