Example sentences of "to be useful " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such knowledge could , however , continue to be useful when used in a regional context , which is what the RANs do , enabling members to react to a wider range of human rights violations in any given region . |
| 2 | What is most likely to be useful in such material is the chance that inferences can be drawn by the reader , seeing a similarity in a problem elsewhere with a question in the visual arts . |
| 3 | I 've even known fire eating , sword swallowing , skiing and judo to be useful , and they are certainly eye-catching — but be sure you really can do what you claim ! |
| 4 | There is one well-known materialist account of different modes of knowledge that might seem to be useful here in preserving the ‘ mode of knowledge ’ approach against the need for the more drastic behaviouristic alternative . |
| 5 | With the Cogelow tools , I found it necessary to grind new bevels completely for these tools to be useful for intricate ornament . |
| 6 | Those who read the highbrow press would probably have found the lowbrow tabloids woefully inadequate , but those who read the tabloids would probably have found the highbrow press too complex , long-winded , repetitious , waffling , and boring to be useful . |
| 7 | I used to have a file , but I found that , as with so many files one opens , I was putting so much in it that it ceased to be useful . |
| 8 | Roy Lambe , aged 25 , of Belfast , was charged with having two rifles , a pistol and ammunition with intent to endanger life ; possessing information likely to be useful to terrorists and raising money for the illegal loyalist group the Red Hand Commandos . |
| 9 | This emphasis upon the need for cultural and social reinforcement , though often overlooked by educationalists , is crucially important if the learning process is to be useful and related to the experience of the community groups so that they feel they can go on to employ practical applications of their learning . |
| 10 | The use of files imposed limitations on the types of valid and reliable data that could be obtained ; data analysed represented a compromise between these limitations and what were thought to be useful indicators of the manner or style of assessment and service delivery . |
| 11 | The analyses that were constructed for these frescos were found to be useful in the examination of more famous works . |
| 12 | A new and successful innovation was the evolution of stemless crinoids — some of these acquired pelagic habits , and during the Cretaceous the genera Marsupites and Uintacrinus ( see p.79 ) were widespread enough to be useful marker fossils . |
| 13 | For the purposes of nutritional science , however , the calorie is too small a unit to be useful . |
| 14 | For it to be useful , in a working situation , it must be adjusted to give the specific performance characteristics required by the user , in the concentration most appropriate to its intended function , with a form , texture and appearance , that is operationally and aesthetically desirable . |
| 15 | The pyocyanases and the penicillia did not appear to harm patients , but they were too difficult to extract and too unstable to be useful . |
| 16 | Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients . |
| 17 | She must look about her again , and try to be useful too . |
| 18 | He might prove to be useful but would have to be handled carefully . |
| 19 | Good schools would educate their pupils to be useful , practical , and self-motivated . |
| 20 | ‘ Clear off unless you want to be useful , ’ Nutty said to him . |
| 21 | For day to day purposes a knowledge of the following has generally been found to be useful to practising managers : |
| 22 | Data must always be put into a fuller perspective in order to be useful . |
| 23 | The rainforest is also held to be useful to us because it will help to mitigate the worst impacts of global warming . |
| 24 | This could either indicate that online services are failing to be useful , which is doubtful given the significant use that planners make of them , or that the online services have not lived up to the planners ' expectations . |
| 25 | Performance indicators ( increasingly referred to in the current climate as ‘ success criteria ’ ) were to be decided at school level , according to what each school felt to be useful areas to monitor . |
| 26 | It will be interesting to see how discussions over ‘ efficiency ’ in schools develop and whether they appear to be useful ! |
| 27 | A ten-year age-group is more likely to be useful , but the actual category limits should be carefully thought about . |
| 28 | to be useful for teachers and parents and children to read as an informative and convincing story of the child 's progress over the years |
| 29 | When considering Ernst 's equation , it is frequently found to be useful also to introduce an associated function Ε , defined by ( 11.11 ) With this , the line element ( 11.4 ) or ( 11.6 ) can be written in the alternative form ( 11.12 ) and the main equations ( 6.22d , e ) , or alternatively ( 11.7 ) , become . |
| 30 | It was later found to be useful to set up separate databases for each functional group , which prevented earlier versions of the full database being corrupted as experiments in sorting and producing reports were carried out . |