Example sentences of "[adj] to be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although personally we believe this to be of only secondary importance , its probable role in motivating innovative acts can not be ignored . |
| 2 | As American banks retrench , they will corner almost all the profitable business at home , leaving Europeans and a handful of Japanese banks to fight over deals that are either unprofitable or too risky to be of interest . |
| 3 | But , if you were prepared to be of service to us … ’ |
| 4 | Instead royal power passed now to Alhred , a representative , according to the Anglian genealogies , of a quite separate line of descent from Ida though the way one annalist observes that Alhred was said by some to be of the lineage of Ida implies that he was regarded by others as an intruder into the kingship ( see Appendix , Fig. 9 ) . |
| 5 | After all , even the official sales pitches were often too uninformative , or too ill-spelt and ungrammatical to be of much use . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 45753 : The Shostakovich Tenth is not to be preferred to Mravinsky 's 1954 Saga recording ( reviewed on page 48 ) , but it is still sufficiently different to be of interest . |
| 8 | On some sites , though , the dating may be too imprecise to be of particular value , and may lack direct relationships between the features . |
| 9 | I laughed quickly and said : ‘ I 'm delighted to be of service , madam . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , please let me take them , ’ said Oliver , delighted to be of use . |
| 11 | Finally , a network of graphic colour was dropped into place , giving the piece sufficient definition to be recognisable , enough contrast to seem solid and enough contrast to seem solid and enough content to be of interest . |
| 12 | Once more I tried to recall what was to happen , as recounted in Mary Shelley 's book , but what little returned was too vague to be of use . |
| 13 | ‘ I would be very glad to be of assistance , sir . ’ |
| 14 | Though these measures are not due to necessity , as the people here are glad to be of service to us and treat us with courtesy in which not a little deference is admixed , for as I say they count many simple things great wonders : my fine paste shoe buckles ( the only part remaining after some native rats that are very large and like to be tame devoured the rest of the appurtenances ) inspired much clicking of teeth and clucking of tongues till I thought I should have to part with them . |
| 15 | ‘ Glad to be of use , ’ she murmured meekly . |
| 16 | The Chaplain to the University is glad to be of assistance in any matter both to students and staff and can be contacted through the Chaplaincy or at home . |
| 17 | The Chaplain is glad to be of assistance in any matter to students and staff and can be contacted through the Chaplaincy Centre during the day or at his home . |
| 18 | ‘ I am glad to be of service . ’ |
| 19 | Glad to be of service . |
| 20 | Although the Atlantic dump site was supposed to be of low fishing interest , the Rainbow Warrior had regularly seen fishing boats in the area . |
| 21 | The building is supposed to be of some importance , architecturally . |
| 22 | It follows from what was said earlier that in a stress-timed language all the feet are supposed to be of roughly the same duration . |
| 23 | The cross was too large to be of much help , and the words on the back of the map were no better . |
| 24 | A fourth will be charged with having information likely to be of use to terrorists . |
| 25 | James Stewart , aged 23 , of Belfast , was accused of having documents on IRA suspects likely to be of use to terrorists planning murder . |
| 26 | This is a bit like asking ‘ which is the more useful , a washing machine or freezer ? ’ because both qualifications are likely to be of lasting value . |
| 27 | However , there are some products which are likely to be of particular interest to older people and some areas where mechanisms are needed to ensure they get a fair deal . |
| 28 | The number of stray cats is harder to identify — and unknown — but the figure is likely to be of similar proportion . |
| 29 | The Latin used in medieval documents likely to be of interest to readers of this present volume was not the classical language of antiquity , nor were its standards universally high , and it varied from century to century as time advanced . |
| 30 | Manchester The city archive has the two following collections likely to be of wide interest : the first deals with women 's suffrage in the north , and the second comprises the documents and papers of William Farmer , an editor of the Victoria County History : Lancashire . |