Example sentences of "would be of [det] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He learned nothing that would be of much use to Lorton . |
| 4 | Neither her mother nor her father would be of any use at all . |
| 5 | ‘ She does mostly ladies ’ slippers , ’ Emily said , ‘ I do n't think she would be of any use to you . ’ |
| 6 | In the case of the database project , it is doubtful that the machine-readable data would be of any use whatsoever . |
| 7 | The incident 's being regarded as an opportunist theft and it 's unlikely anything taken would be of any use to a drug abuser . |
| 8 | ‘ If I 'm going to watch games , I would be of more use studying the following week 's opposition and helping prepare for them . |