Example sentences of "[adv] to be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody knows , precisely enough to be of scientific or medical use , how much radiation was released into the air , how far it spread , and what the original doses received by people underneath it might have been . |
| 2 | The few Tit for Tat individuals do n't meet each other often enough to be of mutual benefit . |
| 3 | There can not be a satisfactory answer to such a question which is short enough for the circumstances , and informative enough to be of any value . |
| 4 | Break 's conclusion was that the net effect of taxation rates ‘ be it disincentive or incentive , is not large enough to be of great economic or sociological significance ’ . |
| 5 | Letters are short reports of outstanding novel findings whose implications are general and important enough to be of interest to those outside the field . |
| 6 | Grade III buildings were those which , whilst not qualifying for the first statutory list when compiled in 1949–69 , were considered nevertheless to be of some importance for planning purposes . |
| 7 | How glad we were soon to be of this memory . |
| 8 | The last night in Edinburgh we were approached by a man , a dubious-looking character who turned out soon to be of an unimaginably boring respectability . |
| 9 | It was this sort of situation the Agency committee had in mind in justifying its activities because ‘ provincial associations have become inert and inefficient ’ with the result that local groups concluded ‘ their own individual exertions were too little sustained by those of similar bodies elsewhere to be of real utility ’ . |
| 10 | Jan. 1587 , lie bound to good behaviour Elizabeth Watson of Halling 20 shillings and William Symons 10 shillings , also Henry Bray , Yeoman 10 shillings , all of Halling to appear at the next quarter sessions at Maidstone and in the meanwhile to be of good behaviour . |
| 11 | The aim is to contribute to anthropological understanding of the incest taboo and also to be of practical use to the therapeutic team . |
| 12 | The following range of services have been chosen not only to be relevant to members in the course of pursuing their professional objectives , but also to be of interest on a more personal level . |
| 13 | He was thinking how unconscious she seemed now to be of the awkwardness of their encounter . |
| 14 | The weekly covers things he more or less knows about and it seems more often to be of more direct concern to him and his family than an event that happened elsewhere . |
| 15 | There may follow a lack of communication and understanding between the computer professionals , the legal advisers , the ultimate users and the supplier of the software resulting in the purchase of a system which is cumbersome , does not provide all the information the users now realize they would have liked and which runs far too slowly to be of any practical use . |
| 16 | I see only two men , and a bridge too low yet to be of much use to anyone . |
| 17 | It has yet to be of proven value , but studies are currently in progress . |
| 18 | The association maintains that a full family history has proved over and over again to be of vital importance . |
| 19 | The lexicon system provided with the ANLT is sufficiently large however to be of comparable size to that used in the probabilistic system . |
| 20 | This attitude was also responsible for a new horological invention that was ultimately to be of far-reaching social significance . |
| 21 | The stylistic originality of the novel , although remarkable in itself , was judged ultimately to be of secondary importance . |