Example sentences of "which [vb mod] [be] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they tend to fit one pencil size only , there are rather more expensive holders available for use with wide pencils and industrial chalks which may be of some help to artists . |
| 2 | In reply to Mr Pikes letter ( EE April ‘ 92 ) I have some information which may be of some use . |
| 3 | Common male fetish objects , which may be of minor significance to the individual concerned , are breasts , legs , hair , shoes and underwear . |
| 4 | David Wray ( 1983 ) describes another program type which should be of great interest to the reading teacher . |
| 5 | Instead of nutrient content per 100 g , the authorities have related their figures to average portion sizes , which should be of practical value to dietitians , health care workers and the food industry . |
| 6 | It is corporate failures and the auditor 's role in them which should be of fundamental concern to professionals charged with protecting the public interest — not with their economic self-interest , which is a secondary issue in professionalised activity . |
| 7 | But Tolkien would no doubt instantly have felt that Shakespeare had no copyright on the phrase , which must be of immemorial antiquity in English , ‘ as old as the hills ’ . |
| 8 | As the communal conscience is examined , in an avalanche of detail , after the death of little James Bulger , there are certain aspects of contributory neglect which must be of great concern to everyone . |
| 9 | All manholes must have covers which give access for clearing blockages , and which must be of adequate strength to take pedestrian traffic or , in the case of driveways , vehicles . |
| 10 | Some interesting and useful things can be done in the way of improving specific item search systems , but only if the catalogue has considerable " knowledge " of bibliographical items ( for example , one can envisage a catalogue which could say , " We have n't got Joseph Matthews on online catalogue screen displays , but there is an article in Library trends which might be of some interest " ) . |
| 11 | If you have any information which might be of special interest to our readers please send it to the Presbytery . |
| 12 | An excellent comparison of Athenian and Spartan habits and philosophy is given by Thucydides , in the mouth of Pericles ( ii.39 ) : ‘ our city is open to the world , and we have no periodical deportations in order to Trevent people observing or finding out secrets which might be of military advantage to the enemy . ’ |
| 13 | This does seem a reasonable argument , and I certainly would not want to lose a therapy which could be of real value to people . |
| 14 | For families in less straitened circumstances , one gift in kind which could be of increasing importance is the payment of school fees . |
| 15 | ‘ There are plenty of opportunities for a greater exchange of expertise which could be of tremendous benefit to both sides . |
| 16 | If the Government can seriously contemplate investing £3,000 million in a company employing 100,000 people , they should also be prepared to start the discussion by studying the proposition with a view to supporting a project which could be of tremendous advantage to the nation as a whole . |
| 17 | The aim of the project is to try to discover the processes by which this efficiency is attained , which could be of great value in the design of automatic systems of face recognition . |
| 18 | We have known for years that there are many wrecks which could be of historical value , telling us about the way in which vessels were constructed and , from their contents , about how ordinary people lived in times past . |
| 19 | READERS who care for a dementia sufferer may like to know that Counsel & Care has just published a fact sheet which could be of considerable help to them . |
| 20 | a scottish case which could be of persuasive value south of the border . |
| 21 | It is viewed as a ‘ foreign body ’ invading the department , rather than something which could be of potential value . |
| 22 | The Ulster representatives feel that Manchester is capable of staging a games of ‘ unparalleled quality ’ which would be of lasting benefit to world sport . |
| 23 | The Ulster representatives feel that Manchester is capable of staging a games of ‘ unparalleled quality ’ which would be of lasting benefit to world sport . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Moynihan and his growing body of supporters ridiculed this proposal , and many commentators felt that the administration would find it very difficult to reject Moynihan 's demand for an immediate social security tax cut ( which would benefit all citizens ) whilst pursuing a reduction in capital gains tax which would be of chief benefit to those who were already among the most wealthy . |
| 26 | Can your precious ethnography tell us anything which would be of practical use about managing these queues ? |
| 27 | It is known that the RUC has accumulated considerable evidence which would be of great interest to an impartial inquiry . |
| 28 | WHEN I read the opening words of your jazz columnist Solly Lipsitz on August 26 , ‘ As this will be my final Thursday column ’ , I felt that I should express my feelings at what I see as a matter which will be of deep concern to the entire jazz fraternity in Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | The first is the provision of a data set which will be of general value to the social scientific community and which will enable scholars in the field of electoral behaviour to update and develop their research . |
| 30 | One line of the research is to produce an image database of authenticated diatom species which will be of international significance . |