Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] be [prep] [adj] value " in BNC.
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1 | In injuries and accidents , the injury remedies can be of great value , and even when surgery is indicated they can be helpful in shortening the post-operative period and in speeding up the recovery process . |
2 | The LEA 's detachment and its knowledge of a few dozen ( or even a few hundred ) other institutions could be of great value . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | This not merely makes direct comparison difficult , but it may also mean that such comparisons would be of questionable value given that they would not relate to the actual situation in which traditional and non-traditional students are competing for places , and in which their work and achievement can be meaningfully compared . |
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 | Dramatisations and reconstructions can be of great value in trying to convey to pupils an idea of the past , but they are none the less interpretations . |
7 | Creative meditation techniques can be of great value here . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | As Laffin and Young ( 1985 , p. 59 ) conclude , ‘ it is quite clear that chief officers are going to have to live with an increasingly uncertain and tempestuous political environment and any new ground rules will be of limited value ’ . |
10 | This would be the appropriate point to call in some modern philosophers who have discussed these issues , and an excursus into the work of Edmund Husserl , Max Scheler , Alfred Schutz , Georg Simmel , and others would be of undoubted value . |
11 | 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 . |