Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , what is or may be of importance to an employer 's business is a question of fact ; and it was no doubt significant in Swain that S was the general manager , the wrongful employee was the managing director , his conduct was dishonest and it could have had a material effect on the defendant 's business ( labelling meat as " Empire Products " when it was not ) . |
| 2 | Information can be of the most detailed kind ( usually processed by computer ) , or can be of a judgemental nature ( usually in a written report ) . |
| 3 | Where politics forces one identification , it also dissolves others — prior social groupings that may be of much greater age . |
| 4 | The application of regional geochemical maps for land use planning was demonstrated as they indicate areas characterised by major and trace element excesses and deficiencies that may be of importance to the health of crops , animals and directly to humans . |
| 5 | Also Mama would like to speak with your guardian about something that may be of benefit to you . |
| 6 | She looked from Aggie to Ben , and it was Aggie who said , ‘ Something that may be of benefit to you . |
| 7 | We have asked your embassy to see if she has any connections that may be of interest to us . |
| 8 | She argues that while the research provides clues about the types of preventive programmes that may be of help we also know what a complex problem child abuse is : The implication seems clear . |
| 9 | Siliceous spicules of demosponges occur in strata in Iran that may be of Ediacaran age , and claims for Precambrian sponge spicules need re-examination , especially as protistan biomineralization , possibly of silica , is known from the preceding Riphean Period ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 10 | Now I wanted to tell you a little bit too before we leave about one of the ARC publications that may be of interest to those of you who are self-propelled . |
| 11 | Two institutional reforms that may be of particular importance in the explanation of the growth of foreign portfolio investment are the abolition of foreign exchange controls and the reduction of transactions costs in securities markets . |
| 12 | Can I give you a bit of something that we picked up last week that may be of some benefit to you ? |
| 13 | CCG people is YOUR newspaper , so if you think you have got something that may be of interest , please write to us . |
| 14 | They had wonderful opportunities for sport and also for learning as many things as possible that might be of use for their future development . |
| 15 | After the six inner-city journeys there is information on those parts of the far-flung city that might be of interest , together with transport suggestions for reaching them . |
| 16 | Some companies ( particularly in the USA ) , in response to these and other factors , decided in the late 70s and early 80s that they should designate within their organisations a person or persons whose job would be to specialise in the acquisition and processing of information from the environment that might be of potential strategic importance . |
| 17 | The result is that the publicly available information resource that might be of relevance to strategic decision making presents an extremely confusing picture to the executive decision maker . |
| 18 | The engineer with the irreverent sense of humour who would n't give houseroom to a defunct machine but who would carefully dismantle and put by any parts that might be of use later on would — this time next year — be helping to nourish the rose beds . |
| 19 | As for the doorstep survey , this was carried out in order to generalize about the speech of the city as a whole , and in this way to be able to describe modifications to the vernacular that might be of general import . |
| 20 | Variability in ME , however , has sometimes been perceived as an obstacle rather than a resource , and as a result information that might be of some value to the historian has been rejected from the canon . |
| 21 | I had no contacts that might be of use to a composer . |
| 22 | He felt he had his hand on a way to proceed , and one that might be of some consequence , with luck . |
| 23 | I have a very exciting proposition that might be of interest to you . ’ |
| 24 | It is impossible to list here the hundreds of post-graduate , professional , and continuing studies courses that might be of interest to alumni . |
| 25 | Proposals in front of the Government would require conversations between quoted company and outsider to avoid mention of anything that might be of interest to investors . |
| 26 | ‘ You have no further information that might be of any assistance , sir ? ’ |
| 27 | Write the word " client " in the margin against any information that it 's necessary to impart ( and your client should be kept fully informed on every matter that might be of material interest ) , ticking this , as already mentioned , when you " ve done so . |
| 28 | Most information about terms and their relationships that could be of assistance to the user of the index will be transferred from the list to the index or catalogue itself . |
| 29 | Each drive will also have a power supply connection that could be of either type shown n figure 1 . |
| 30 | This was to see if there were any experiences that could be of use to the LEA as it looked at its own internal processes , particularly the support services it provides for its schools . |