Example sentences of "this [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 | This comment may be of a moral , biographical or prophetic nature . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |