Example sentences of "[be] [det] use " in BNC.

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1 If , for example , the retailer required a supply of cards for Mother 's Day , they would be little use to him if they arrived afterwards .
2 All these transactions were secret , for there would be little use in keeping a paper alive if it were known to be owned by a political party .
3 Opting out has a short term attraction because it will bring in cash … but the feeling is will be little use in the long run .
4 Opting out has a short term attraction because it will bring in cash … but the feeling is will be little use in the long run .
5 These , not merely the hopelessly wounded , but those whose wounds were just too complicated for the frantic surgeons to waste time probing , or who looked as if they would be little use to the army again , were laid outside in the bitter cold .
6 If no one could learn anything from my saying , ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ , there would not be that use of ‘ Here ’ .
7 Hope this might be some use , Cheers , Steve .
8 The clues lie , probably , in an informality of style ; in signs — at least — that someone has thought about the environment of the office ; evidence of a lot of the agency 's work around the place ( if they have nothing to be proud of ; they can not be much use ) ; an approach which is clearly geared to the idea of selling .
9 Will there be more use of peer-group , or clan-type , organisations ?
10 A suit of armour and a motorbike might be more use than a pair of trainers !
11 If any professional person has shown an interest in your work do n't let it go , but try to cultivate their interest , however tenuous it may seem — you will soon know if it 's going to be any use for the future .
12 ‘ You would n't be any use at the job , if you had nothing to lose .
13 Not stay and wait to be thrown out after they 'd ceased to be any use to the old baggage .
14 Would that be any use ? ’
15 ‘ Besides , it would n't be any use , would it ?
16 A sharp kitchen knife can not be made absolutely safe if it is to be any use as a kitchen knife .
17 They could never have done anything wide-scale without us knowing — and a Resistance movement has to be wide-scale to be any use .
18 It ca n't be done , and if it could it would n't be any use ; If you play innocent and unnoticing too well , you wont attract suspicion , but you wo n't notice anything other .
19 ‘ I 'll never be any use to anyone else , ’ she wept .
20 ‘ Well … if you think I can be any use … ’
21 I got no , I 've got no innate ability and if you try to teach me , would it be any use ? just a stupid example .
22 Check train times before paying up too — last connection from Leeds back down to Oxford leaves too soon after the end of a game to be any use ; it may be the same from Oxford back to Leeds too .
23 those wo n't be any use will they Tim ?
24 we could manage to do that one day , if it 's fine this afternoon we might do something like that this afternoon , but if it rains it wo n't be any use , I also want to do the garden this afternoon
25 she wo n't be any use to anyway !
26 I do n't think they 'll be any use then .
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