Example sentences of "[verb] be of any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , Diana herself has never in her lifetime uttered one statement that has been of any use to any member of the human race . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 3 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 4 | Only answers to what has been asked are of any value . |
| 5 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |
| 6 | I 've told them everything I could think of that might help , but so far it does n't seem to have been of any use . ’ |
| 7 | None of the nursemaids I had engaged were of any use at all . |