Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] may be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This finding may be of clinical importance in the few patients who have severe hypergastrinaemia as a result of long acting profound acid inhibition . |
| 2 | This measure may be of use to health care planners , but , even if it is eventually validated and accepted as an equitable way of allocating resources , it will be of little help to general practitioners , whose decisions are mostly concerned with managing self limiting minor illnesses . |
| 3 | This lacuna may be of interest in trying to establish the circumstances , or complex of circumstances , required if an ice age is to occur … assuming , of course , that the neat spacing of the others is not just a matter of chance . |
| 4 | Eye pigments occurring in the ommatidial cells of some insects may be of special interest since studies of their metabolism reveal something of the mode of action of genes controlling eye colour . |
| 5 | But clearly some immoralities may be of a kind that no government has authority to commit . |
| 6 | In terms of this sort of classification , electronic transitions may be of five types : |
| 7 | This comment may be of a moral , biographical or prophetic nature . |
| 8 | Development shoot-outs as suggested by one researcher may be a way of widening the solution arena ( Quinn , 1986 ) , but if the uncertainties are too high even this approach may be of little value . |
| 9 | Since we also hope that this account may be of interest to those who do not know the area , it includes , especially at the beginning , some historical and other background information about Lewis and Harris , in the wider contexts of the Western Isles as a whole and of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . |
| 10 | This information may be of rather general nature , because all DNA cytosine-C 5 methyltransferases are structurally related ( 28 , 34 , 35 ) ; conservation of the active-site ProCys motif also extends to thymidilate synthetase ( 36 ) . |
| 11 | So , for example , they would know the current orders and be able to compare these with similar periods in the previous years , they would also have a ‘ feel ’ of production levels , stock levels etc. even though this information may be of a more qualitative rather than quantitative nature . |
| 12 | Carbamylated haemoglobin correlates with the time-averaged urea concentration in patients receiving regular haemodialysis and measurement of this substrate may be of use in assessing the adequacy of renal-replacement therapies . |
| 13 | Whilst external social factors may be of some relevance to the management , even control , of the behaviour of those afflicted , the harsh fact is that external social influences play little part in its onset or progress . |
| 14 | Consequently offers for unlisted public companies and even for private companies may be of interest to the Panel if the shareholder base is sufficiently wide for minority protection to be relevant . |
| 15 | In addition to The Handwriting of English Documents by L.C. Hector already mentioned , the following books may be of value : English Cursive Book-hands 1200–1500 by M.B. Parkes ( London 1979 ) , Elizabethan Handwriting 1500–1650 by G.E . |
| 16 | Similar relationships may be of equal importance in the diabetic subject . |
| 17 | The writing on other categories of contemporary rugs may be of interest , but rarely has any bearing on their quality or value . |
| 18 | Antibodies of IgA class directed against Saccharomyces cerviciae are common in Crohn 's disease but not in ulcerative colitis , and determination of such antibodies may be of diagnostic help . |
| 19 | Information about a person 's private and personal affairs may be of a nature which shows him up in a favourable light and would by no means expose him to criticism . |
| 20 | After all , the facilities are basically the same regardless of the price and the additional features may be of no real use at all . |
| 21 | Compromises will certainly have to be made , notably in the positioning of the pond and selection of garden plants and shrubs , but the following tips may be of help : |
| 22 | Such courses may be of interest to you as a returner but they are not the same as re-entry programmes , and would not be recognised for the same purpose if you ever had to provide evidence of an updating course to your National Board . |
| 23 | As S4 Standard Grade and S5 Higher results are the ones usually referred to in national comparisons , the following facts may be of interest . |
| 24 | For those who like to make comparisons between their pets ' ages and their own , bearing in mind that the figures are only a rough guide , the following table may be of interest . |
| 25 | Exhumed forms may be of any age , although Triassic forms have probably received more attention than any others in this country . |
| 26 | If you wish to take anything further , the following three contacts may be of use : |
| 27 | These models may be of use to marketers in dealing with particular problems , such as the relative importance of advertising or price in influencing consumer purchase behaviour . |
| 28 | Elemental , annotated or operational bills may be of greater value but the most reliable system is to take off the quantities from the drawings . |
| 29 | These observations may be of relevance in the pathogenesis of the disease as polyunsaturated fatty acids are involved in tissue eicosanoid synthesis and cellular membrane function , including that of immunocompetent cells . |
| 30 | It is true that in some cases these publications may be of extreme radical tendency , attacking the established practices of academic English teaching , but that is no objection , since it is the fact of publication that counts , not its content . |