Example sentences of "[modal v] be [prep] [adj] value " in BNC.
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| 1 | The publication as a whole has been designed with ease of reference in mind and its advice should be of great value and interest to anyone involved in professional training . |
| 2 | The lessons learnt should be of great value to the analysis of other countries in the process of transition . |
| 3 | The Abdication was an issue where British public opinion , not intransigent foreigners or intractable facts , was likely to be decisive , and one on which , therefore , his old gifts of timing , mood creation , and putting an adversary in the wrong , should be of pre-eminent value . |
| 4 | Instead of nutrient content per 100 g , the authorities have related their figures to average portion sizes , which should be of practical value to dietitians , health care workers and the food industry . |
| 5 | The view that applied studies should be of equal value and status with the theoretical is far too little understood in this country , almost alone in the world . |
| 6 | It must be of immense value today , in fact probably some of the work is too highly priced to be allowed out into the schools for which it was bought . |
| 7 | Were there any things that were given away , that might be of high value to the opposition , given away for less than nothing . |
| 8 | This does seem a reasonable argument , and I certainly would not want to lose a therapy which could be of real value to people . |
| 9 | The LEA 's detachment and its knowledge of a few dozen ( or even a few hundred ) other institutions could be of great value . |
| 10 | ( Among the virtues of reparation are that it could be of great value in assisting the ‘ reintegration ’ of offenders , as we discuss shortly . ) |
| 11 | Alone of the Pacific species , N. emarginata shows something like a comparable variation in shell shape with exposure ( Crothers , 1984 ) , but the shell is so thin as to afford little protection from crabs regardless of its shape ( Kitching , 1976 ) and an ability to resist desiccation could be of great value to this highQQintertidal species in sites protected from continuous spray . |
| 12 | The aim of the project is to try to discover the processes by which this efficiency is attained , which could be of great value in the design of automatic systems of face recognition . |
| 13 | We have known for years that there are many wrecks which could be of historical value , telling us about the way in which vessels were constructed and , from their contents , about how ordinary people lived in times past . |
| 14 | a scottish case which could be of persuasive value south of the border . |
| 15 | What he 's doing might be considered unfortunate for the baby — though I 'm not sure it is — but it could be of immense value to humanity as a whole . ’ |
| 16 | This test could be of clinical value in deciding which patients require urgent referral for further management and treatment in hospitals without specialist nephrological care . |
| 17 | It is viewed as a ‘ foreign body ’ invading the department , rather than something which could be of potential value . |
| 18 | This school of thought holds that Japanese ground forces could be of military value in the defence of Japan , and that their establishment would release US forces for service in other areas where they would be fully needed in the event of war . |
| 19 | The fact that one prophecy does not come true does not mean you are dealing with a false prophet : ‘ It is possible for a true prophet to prophesy from the flesh or in the excitement of a moment … . ’ says John Wimber.2 In addition , the prophecy may be of mixed value , having one part God 's truth and two parts human enthusiasm . |
| 20 | However , it should be stressed that diagnosis is only one of the aims of assessment and diagnosis on its own may be of limited value in developing strategies for intervention ( Crystal 1984 ) . |
| 21 | When this is not the case , as with non-Western cultures ( and as it might be with deaf people ) , then the theories produced may be of limited value . |
| 22 | Therefore , agents capable of reducing hypergastrinaemia may be of potential value in preventing the trophic effects of hypergastrinaemia on the gastric mucosa . |
| 23 | A booklet which is issued by ISIS , called ‘ Questions to Ask When You Visit a School ’ , may be of immense value to you . |
| 24 | Of more academic , secondary reference , works two in particular may be of special value . |
| 25 | The endoscopic Doppler ultrasound may be of diagnostic value in the evaluation of Dieulafoy 's disease when bleeding has stopped spontaneously . |
| 26 | Because of the immediate nature of such patients ' problems it is important that whatever form of help is offered should be available without too much delay , and for this reason health-centre-based therapists may be of particular value , as has been shown in the case of psychologists ( Robson et al. 1984 ) and social workers ( Shepherd et al. 1979 ) . |
| 27 | This may be of particular value to investors from Germany and Switzerland , where the tax-sparing provisions in the Portuguese double tax treaties may be used in conjunction with a Madeira tax-exempt company to reduce the financing costs in multinational groups . |
| 28 | This was the first time that the government had confirmed that all votes would be of equal value ; de Klerk did not specify , however , whether there would be a common voters ' roll or separate rolls . |
| 29 | But this would be of limited value to the defendant , since any costs recovered by the defendant would be subject to a charge in favour of the board under section 16 of the Act and the operation of regulation 103 of the Civil Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1989 , the detail of which I need not examine , and would have the effect in this case that the defendant would in fact recover only a very small proportion of the costs he actually incurred . |
| 30 | A more detailed life of Lord Reading , Liberal leader in the House of Lords and an important actor in the events of 1931 , would be of great value . |