Example sentences of "[adj] to be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But , if you were prepared to be of service to us … ’ |
| 3 | After all , even the official sales pitches were often too uninformative , or too ill-spelt and ungrammatical to be of much use . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On some sites , though , the dating may be too imprecise to be of particular value , and may lack direct relationships between the features . |
| 7 | I laughed quickly and said : ‘ I 'm delighted to be of service , madam . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , please let me take them , ’ said Oliver , delighted to be of use . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I would be very glad to be of assistance , sir . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Glad to be of use , ’ she murmured meekly . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I am glad to be of service . ’ |
| 17 | Glad to be of service . |
| 18 | Although the Atlantic dump site was supposed to be of low fishing interest , the Rainbow Warrior had regularly seen fishing boats in the area . |
| 19 | The building is supposed to be of some importance , architecturally . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The cross was too large to be of much help , and the words on the back of the map were no better . |
| 22 | A fourth will be charged with having information likely to be of use to terrorists . |
| 23 | James Stewart , aged 23 , of Belfast , was accused of having documents on IRA suspects likely to be of use to terrorists planning murder . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The number of stray cats is harder to identify — and unknown — but the figure is likely to be of similar proportion . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The paragraphs which now follow single out some of the more important , more specialised , local collections , and particularly those which are likely to be of value to researchers working over a fairly wide geographical area , or concentrating on a single subject . |
| 30 | These are likely to be of great importance when prescribing the remedy for a patient . |