Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | These results are the first controlled data to syggest that cyclosporin may be of clinical benefit in patients with ulcerative colitis . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That 's tru that 's the only part may be of traditional sales that you |
| 8 | In drawing this essential balance between flexibility and simplicity , the drive system checklist 4 in the appendix may be of value . |
| 9 | ( 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 . ) |
| 10 | The endoscopic Doppler ultrasound may be of diagnostic value in the evaluation of Dieulafoy 's disease when bleeding has stopped spontaneously . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This finding may be of clinical importance in the few patients who have severe hypergastrinaemia as a result of long acting profound acid inhibition . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Our experience should be of value to skippers thinking of calling here in 1991 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The computer must be of merchantable quality . |
| 20 | The trial judge agreed that the computer programs were protected by confidence but said that the protection should be of a limited nature . |
| 21 | Obviously , in order that the trial should be of any value at all , both materials should be used in the way that will produce the best results . |
| 22 | The finding by Fritz and Brooks that vagotomy abolishes the choleretic response to feeding in cholecystectomised dogs suggests that , at least as regards the digestive function of bile , neural regulation of biliary secretion may be of greater functional importance than is generally acknowledged . |
| 23 | In each case the containing font may be of a different size , but the title will adapt . |
| 24 | To the environmentally concerned , however , the origin and extraction method for capturing an essence may be of vital importance . |
| 25 | It now seems that the time of injection may be of crucial importance in determining the effects of melatonin . |
| 26 | The analogy may be of Britain gaining an Empire by accident , and then losing it ; this century , town planning has expanded its subject field , as disciplinary boundaries first collided and then were realigned , at a time when the nature of complex environmental problems was reidentified and expressed again in different terms . |
| 27 | These attributes would be expected to lead to new and better solutions to problems in the UK and it seems that the apparent anomaly may be of cultural origin . |
| 28 | We suggest that anti-lactoferrin may be of pathogenetic significance by counteracting the antiphlogistic properties of lactoferrin at mucosal surfaces , thereby aggravating and/or sustaining mucosal inflammation initiated by other factors . |
| 29 | For the depressed person , the loss may be of a more ideal kind and may relate to aspects of himself that destroy his security of self-esteem . |
| 30 | The wire connecting the main unit to the solenoid valve may be of a light-duty twin type of any reasonable length . |