Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [prep] [adj] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | The priority was to get hold of some more men , although they would first have to be trained up to SAS standards before being of any use on operations . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I see only two men , and a bridge too low yet to be of much use to anyone . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By then a complete overhaul is often too late to be of much use . |
| 6 | After all , even the official sales pitches were often too uninformative , or too ill-spelt and ungrammatical to be of much use . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is important to make the correct diagnosis , for fungal treatments are unlikely to be of much use against bacteria and vice versa . |
| 9 | A planning process which fails to accept this … is unlikely to be of much use in the realities of business life . |
| 10 | Following her arrival , she obtained a temporary job as a nurse in the Hospital of Hope , and this situation was destined to be of great use , not least to her future husband . |
| 11 | To be of real use the policy statement should be specific about priorities and other matters . |
| 12 | This is a very small steel device with not enough fence area to be of real use . |
| 13 | Almost too late to be of real use , a rehabilitation unit took her in and began the slow , hard work of helping her and her family reconstruct and make sense of their situation . |
| 14 | Indeed , the techniques that have proved to be of greatest use are empirical or almost ’ trial and error ’ in their approach . |
| 15 | The matter has been considered by the services Committee ; the Order Paper is designed to be of greatest use to the House . |
| 16 | This can be a vacuous form of words , conveniently forgotten as students settle down in their maths , their physics , their geography lessons to acquire ideas which are , we acknowledge , of potential general application , but which are likely to be of little use if the connections between theory and practice are not made explicitly . |
| 17 | Conversely , there are many , so-called , all-inclusive communication models which are so grotesque as to be of little use to anyone . |
| 18 | This last argument seems to be of little use against the solipsist , who is not interested in communication with others . |
| 19 | Unfortunately following the death of James IV at the Battle of Flodden , the ship was considered to be of little use and was sold to the French . |
| 20 | The following possibilities of choral orchestration are limited to the most-used textures ; traditional forms such as fugato , fugue , and canon are omitted , being too closely identified stylistically with past epochs to be of effective use today ( though some mention of them will be made later ) . |
| 21 | No , but the point is that to in all our cases to provide a community resource which is going to be of genuine use to artists and the general public , erm one has to take care that the standards of work and the standards of community facilities are as high as they possibly can be if you want to attract maximum usage , and what we will be trying to do in circumstances like this encourage as many people to come up to the Gardener at weekends during the summer and have as enjoyable a time as possible . |
| 22 | Rosie Fortinbras had proved to be of minimal use as a source of information . |
| 23 | Dall has made a single lens microscope that magnifies 1000 times , but he considers the image too faint to be of practical use . |
| 24 | The book 's purpose , in which it succeeds admirably , is to be of practical use . |
| 25 | The rule-based approach proved to be too unwieldy and fragile to be of practical use given the current state of computer hardware and linguistic theories . |
| 26 | The aim is to contribute to anthropological understanding of the incest taboo and also to be of practical use to the therapeutic team . |
| 27 | It is intended to be of practical use in the formulation of policies of both public and private sectors in the future . |
| 28 | An index can also help you establish whether the book is going to be of future use . |
| 29 | In the reports of social workers , psychiatrists or teachers , such global terms can hardly be avoided ; for them the labels and importance attached by research workers to facets of parental behaviour are likely to be of considerable use . |
| 30 | He was a man apart , a man desperate to be of some use , driven to understand the purpose of life and his role within it . |