Example sentences of "[be] [prep] much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With less than an hour of daylight remaining , he carried a flashlight — not that it would be of much help with the rain cascading down as if the Maya Rain God had corralled every raincloud in Central America and pulled the plugs out . |
| 2 | The FCC 's cleverly contrived technical contest may have helped accelerate the move to digital broadcasting , but that may not be of much help to the terrestrial TV broadcasters it had hoped to escort into the digital age , nor give much of an edge to American equipment makers . |
| 3 | But he was not himself able to be of much help . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm afraid I ca n't be of much help , ’ Meredith said . |
| 5 | It would not be of much help to him , and it would alert any intruder that he was on his way . |
| 6 | The cross was too large to be of much help , and the words on the back of the map were no better . |
| 7 | ‘ Tony , ’ he said , ‘ I do n't think I can be of much help to you . |
| 8 | I do n't think you can be of much help to me , Doctor . |
| 9 | There is no copyright in a fictitious name and an action in passing-off is unlikely to be of much help if the defendant uses that name in relation to different goods or services . |
| 10 | There is thus a tendency to build up a strong personal relationship over a long time , and slick high-pressure selling techniques are unlikely to be of much help . |
| 11 | Japan could be of much importance in the event of war and it might be feasible for the Japanese to fight for the United States after a war had begun . |
| 12 | Secretion of bile is not usually considered to be of much importance in this response since the gall bladder procides a mechanism for rapid delivery of bile into the duodenum at mealtime . |
| 13 | The Governor , Sir David Wilson , has argued for a general ‘ right of entry ’ to Britain — though such a ‘ right ’ could not be of much value if it were not ordinarily convertible into full citizenship . |
| 14 | Method ( 2 ) , as discussed in chapter 3 , may not be of much value if managers do not stay long enough in one position . |
| 15 | In fact the uncertainty is so wide that is doubtful if the forecast would be of much value . |
| 16 | In any case , as we shall see in Chapter 8 , strengths very greatly in excess of I per cent of the Young 's modulus may not be of much interest in practical engineering . |
| 17 | The domestic arrangements of an elderly bachelor like myself can not be of much interest to anyone . |
| 18 | I could do this for you , but it would n't be of much interest unless you were familiar with the stories I read . |
| 19 | This seems to indicate that the igfet should not be of much use and , indeed , this is the case at low frequencies of operation . |
| 20 | Modern penitentials wo n't be of much use to future historians of the twentieth century , but eleventh-century penitentials might be , rich as they are in the prejudices of our enlightened age — particularly the inferior status of women . |
| 21 | Matters were not helped by the Sabina Park authorities providing one sightscreen that was too low to be of much use if the bowler was over six feet ( 1.8 metres ) tall , and when England complained after the game against Jamaica the reply was that it could not be raised without obscuring the view of some two hundred people who had already bought tickets . |
| 22 | In opposition to centrally imposed ‘ local economic strategies ’ , these initiatives of the left explicitly recognize that what is appropriate in one place , may not be of much use in another . |
| 23 | But will the flood of computers be of much use ? |
| 24 | In most cases this will not be of much use , but at this stage there is nothing to lose . |
| 25 | I see only two men , and a bridge too low yet to be of much use to anyone . |
| 26 | This was really unnecessary , since a body would have been far too decomposed after eight to ten days to be of much use to any medical school . |
| 27 | By then a complete overhaul is often too late to be of much use . |
| 28 | After all , even the official sales pitches were often too uninformative , or too ill-spelt and ungrammatical to be of much use . |
| 29 | Conversely , psychology itself has been in no shape to deliver the goods it promised : if educationists were atheoretical , psychologists for their part were producing theories which were too crude to be of much use to educational researchers . |
| 30 | It is important to make the correct diagnosis , for fungal treatments are unlikely to be of much use against bacteria and vice versa . |