Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [prep] [det] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her grandfather had suggested , without conviction , that she might be of some use in the farm office . |
| 2 | You 're in a dead end as far as Charlie 's records are concerned , and even if you get your hands on them you 've no guarantee they 'll be of any use . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps because you could be of more use to the ringleaders that way , ’ he returned instantly . |
| 4 | The fearsome riots that swept the inner cities in 1981 , in Brixton first , then Toxteth and Hansworth , Moss Side and Bristol , came as no surprise , and convinced Charles that this was the area where he could be of some use . |
| 5 | ‘ All those birds are as common as dirt around here , but I guess if they could be of some use to you , that 's great . ’ |
| 6 | He had found milk at the ā gri 's house and the old man had come back with him to see if he could be of any use . |
| 7 | I determined to contact Jenny , but letters and telephone conversations seemed quite inadequate means of discovering what I wanted to know , that is whether I could be of any use to her . |
| 8 | She went to see if she could be of any use . |
| 9 | She wanted to move the conversation along as she would do with any other person she had just met at a cocktail party , to talk of work and why they were there and if they could be of any use to each other . |
| 10 | For example , collocations extracted from the domain of Banking may be of little use when processing a medical report , since words like ’ charge ’ behave differently when used to describe a type of payment rather than a type of nurse . |
| 11 | Obviously , though , if M-tense and L-tense get too far apart , M-tense may be of little use to the analysis of language . |
| 12 | Within sublanguage applications a generative approach may be of more use than a probabilistic method . |
| 13 | ISIS ( The Independent Schools Information Service ) may be of most use if you wish to explore this option , and they will send you detailed lists of schools in your area with contact names and addresses . |
| 14 | In reply to Mr Pikes letter ( EE April ‘ 92 ) I have some information which may be of some use . |
| 15 | I hope this may be of some use , and look forward to reading more on the subject in future editions . |
| 16 | If diarrhoea is the dominant symptom and the threat of incontinence an embarrassing social handicap , provided that the rectum is not impacted on examination , loperamide may be of some use . |
| 17 | Other enhancements such as the mouse pointer changing shape according to the function currently selected and changing curve points to corner points may be of less use but at the very least point to a great amount of thought being paid to the design of the program . |
| 18 | A majority for Imperial preference in a general election would be of little use from the Dominion point of view , since it was ‘ obvious that the whole system might be capsized in a year or two . |
| 19 | The last of these must be the overriding consideration ; it would be of little use to develop a unit on an unusual system not readily available to the target population in schools , and not likely to be available in the near future . |
| 20 | He learned nothing that would be of much use to Lorton . |
| 21 | Neither her mother nor her father would be of any use at all . |
| 22 | ‘ She does mostly ladies ’ slippers , ’ Emily said , ‘ I do n't think she would be of any use to you . ’ |
| 23 | In the case of the database project , it is doubtful that the machine-readable data would be of any use whatsoever . |
| 24 | The incident 's being regarded as an opportunist theft and it 's unlikely anything taken would be of any use to a drug abuser . |
| 25 | ‘ If I 'm going to watch games , I would be of more use studying the following week 's opposition and helping prepare for them . |
| 26 | Yet donning even the best equipment will be of little use without the training to use it properly . |
| 27 | 7 Decide in which area personal contacts will be of most use and make contact by telephone . |
| 28 | However , I doubt that the book will be of any use to the professional . |
| 29 | Then you can come and sit near me and find out whether they will be of any use . |
| 30 | They will be of some use in working out what it was that testators hoped to achieve by adding on a trust disposition to provisions at civil law . |