Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] be of " in BNC.

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1 If you wish to take anything further , the following three contacts may be of use :
2 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 .
3 The maps may be of surrounding areas and zoomed right up to detailed floor-plan scale .
4 These findings suggest that cyclosporin may be of benefit to the colon in patients with ulcerative colitis who are being treated with cyclosporin for primary sclerosing cholangitis .
5 These results are the first controlled data to syggest that cyclosporin may be of clinical benefit in patients with ulcerative colitis .
6 Soil mark sites are visible because of different coloured marks in the soil , usually just after ploughing For example , if a burial mound with a ditch around it has been flattened by ploughing , the material from which the mound was constructed , the soil filling the ditch , and the soil in the rest of the ploughed field may be of different colours .
7 Exhumed forms may be of any age , although Triassic forms have probably received more attention than any others in this country .
8 This lacuna may be of interest in trying to establish the circumstances , or complex of circumstances , required if an ice age is to occur … assuming , of course , that the neat spacing of the others is not just a matter of chance .
9 The research aims to explore the possibilities of trip chain analysis sufficiently to establish in what ways the technique may be of value to practising transport planners .
10 That 's tru that 's the only part may be of traditional sales that you
11 In drawing this essential balance between flexibility and simplicity , the drive system checklist 4 in the appendix may be of value .
12 Enemas and suppositories may be of use but habitual use of these can create an unhappy and strained parent-child relationship .
13 ( For a ‘ developed ’ country , this will probably concentrate on the questions asked in the census form ; for other parts of the world the method of conducting the census may be of more interest . )
14 The endoscopic Doppler ultrasound may be of diagnostic value in the evaluation of Dieulafoy 's disease when bleeding has stopped spontaneously .
15 MC Groups may be of assistance .
16 Political parties , for example , may not present such an ‘ open face ’ to women ; their agendas may be of less interest to women or women may face more difficulties in fitting in with their timetables and organisation .
17 If diarrhoea is the dominant symptom and the threat of incontinence an embarrassing social handicap , provided that the rectum is not impacted on examination , loperamide may be of some use .
18 For example , collocations extracted from the domain of Banking may be of little use when processing a medical report , since words like ’ charge ’ behave differently when used to describe a type of payment rather than a type of nurse .
19 If , for example , a provision may be of doubtful import , such resort would be perfectly legitimate … ( p145 ) Because Chalmers saw codification as an improvement in the form of the law , resurrection of old authorities is easy .
20 Audit is an ex post event and improvements in this important function may be of little long-term value if they are not coupled with more general reforms of the accountability of government .
21 This finding may be of clinical importance in the few patients who have severe hypergastrinaemia as a result of long acting profound acid inhibition .
22 Of course , Work Experience should be of benefit to young people in making career decisions and a good Work Experience report from an employer may be a reference in itself .
23 Our experience should be of value to skippers thinking of calling here in 1991 .
24 However , the form of section 2(2) means that with regard to liability for animals not belonging to a dangerous species the position will be fundamentally the same as at common law , since the damage must be of a kind made likely by the characteristics known to the keeper .
25 The constant updating of all media contacts should be of top priority and should not be put off and off until a spare moment arrives .
26 HOW proud Karen Costen must be of her two-year-old son who battled on after being given two weeks to live and has finally had a kidney transplant .
27 The computer must be of merchantable quality .
28 Although these impairments must be of concern , we emphasise that most early treated children fall within the broad normal range of general ability and attend ordinary schools .
29 A leaked document from within the military stated that " anti-subversive " operations should be of a " highly aggressive and offensive character " and that " the best subversive is a dead subversive ; therefore no prisoners need be taken " .
30 MITI believes that such exports should be of less concern to advocates of managed trade than consumer goods , because components increase the competitiveness — and therefore the export potential — of the industries that buy them .
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