Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [prep] much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was not himself able to be of much help . |
| 2 | The cross was too large to be of much help , and the words on the back of the map were no better . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I see only two men , and a bridge too low yet to be of much use to anyone . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By then a complete overhaul is often too late to be of much use . |
| 9 | After all , even the official sales pitches were often too uninformative , or too ill-spelt and ungrammatical to be of much use . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is important to make the correct diagnosis , for fungal treatments are unlikely to be of much use against bacteria and vice versa . |
| 12 | A planning process which fails to accept this … is unlikely to be of much use in the realities of business life . |
| 13 | 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 . |