Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [prep] [det] 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | Conversely , there are many , so-called , all-inclusive communication models which are so grotesque as to be of little use to anyone . |
| 12 | This last argument seems to be of little use against the solipsist , who is not interested in communication with others . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He , while happy to be of some use , was not content that inequality on this scale should persist — inequality of opportunity , of course , for as a station-master he was a hierarchical man . |
| 16 | It really gives me a kick to be of some use like this . ’ |
| 17 | What seems to be of more use to people are specific things they can do to help them achieve these states . |
| 18 | This order was annulled on 26 October by the Smolensk guberniia party committee for being excessive and too late to be of any use . |
| 19 | Recognizing that audiences could never identify with nobs , Hitchcock 's films showed ordinary people going through extraordinary experiences : ‘ The upper classes , ’ he remarked , ‘ are too ‘ bottled up ’ to be of any use as colourful screen material , too stiffened with breeding to relax into the natural easiness and normality required by the screen . ’ |
| 20 | These need to be as specific as possible , including a timetable for action if they are to be of any use . |
| 21 | The Western-financed dams received all the attention ; the numerous jobs that needed to be done if the dams were going to be of any use had scant priority . |
| 22 | To be of any use as a tool of business control , financial records must be up-to-date . |
| 23 | Mrs Stych protested coyly that she did not know enough about books to be of any use , while she wondered privately how she was going to fit this new commitment into her already overcrowded schedule of social events . |
| 24 | Editor , — If operative mortality is to be of any use as an indicator of quality in cardiac surgery a system of risk stratification must be in place . |
| 25 | Combine these two flaws and there 's often a lack of players on-screen at one time — the scanner does n't help matters as it 's too small to be of any use . |
| 26 | The eye-spots , to be of any use , must be linked to muscles so that the animal can react to what it senses . |
| 27 | The ownership of archaeological finds depends on the local laws ( in some countries all archaeological artefacts are automatically the property of the state and have to be reported , while in others the finds belong to the owner of the land on which they were found ) , but whatever the ownership , each find needs to be properly recorded if it is to be of any use archaeologically . |
| 28 | The man in the doorway was certainly old and infirm , and none too reliable either , but when he ceased to be of any use to the Guild as a working docker , they had found him a sinecure job as night watchman on the Wharf . |
| 29 | Most of the systems , including the spectronic destabilizer ( handy for blasting planets ) , were too large scale in their effects to be of any use in this situation . |
| 30 | Though fugue is regarded as too tonal a form to be of any use , many other old contrapuntal devices of the Renaissance and Baroque periods have been revived in serial composition , especially canon in its many forms . |