Example sentences of "be of [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But such links remained tentative and seem to have been of little relevance to policy development even if the symbolism was important . |
| 2 | It would have been of little comfort to investors to learn that Chairman John Wheeler had , according to former business colleagues , been living a luxury lifestyle , spending almost £70,000 on refitting his yacht , and thousands of pounds renovating his six-bedroom house . |
| 3 | Doctors have not always welcomed the establishment of computer systems in hospitals — computers have often proved difficult to use , and the information has been of more use to managers than to clinicians . |
| 4 | However , the literature so far described is concerned almost entirely with social work at the micro level : individuals , families and small groups , much of it using techniques that are of little relevance to community work , for example behaviour modification . |
| 5 | Do we really need lots of people sitting around pondering on research topics that are of little benefit to man or beast ? |
| 6 | Consequently , because non-recognised unions are of little benefit to employees , there is less incentive to join . |
| 7 | Such practices are understandable : fringe benefits are seen as a reward for long-term commitment to the organization , occupational pensions are of little value to workers who frequently change employer and costs of administering the scheme are thereby reduced . |
| 8 | Alum Pot is comprehended at a single fearful glance , and it is the intricacies of its cave system that are of most interest to sight-seeing visitors . |
| 9 | The translators are of most interest to DEC 's installed base , but the same technology could be applied to translate Intel iAPX-86 code , for example , observes the Microprocessor Report . |
| 10 | ( These diets could be said to have been half-right , in that they did cut out refined carbohydrates , but unfortunately without adding fibre-rich carbohydrate foods which we now know to be of such help to slimmers . ) |
| 11 | Demographics , for instance , may be of little concern to innovators in fundamental industrial processes like steel making , although Mergenthaler 's Linotype machine became successful primarily because there were not enough skilled typesetters available to satisfy a mass market . |
| 12 | It is on these grounds that we could discount the ‘ rare exceptions ’ referred to by Nossal ( 1975 : 46 , above ) , since the superfluous testing which he condemns has a far greater probability of continuing to be of little benefit to mankind , even in the advancement of knowledge , than the work of Gray , Gallistel , or the early objectives of Blakemore . |
| 13 | This blurring of the boundaries may be of little consequence to users of the service , but it does have implications for the type of care they receive and which agency remains financially responsible for arranging that care . |
| 14 | He learned nothing that would be of much use to Lorton . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't think a change of manager would be of any benefit to Crystal Palace . |
| 16 | And , if specific hypothetical examples of such computations are to be of any interest to students of biological organisms , they should be able to distinguish reliably ( though not necessarily infallibly ) between equivalent changes in the real-world environment . |
| 17 | So therefore it might be of more interest to practitioners if I take some typical enquiries and describe the way they are tackled . |
| 18 | What seems to be of more use to people are specific things they can do to help them achieve these states . |
| 19 | But even if by some miracle effective protocols are agreed , the momentum of climate change means that whatever action is taken to reduce greenhouse gases will be of more value to generations beyond the mid-century than to those which come before it . |
| 20 | His shyness was offset by the bubbling enthusiasm of Bishan Bedi , who posed the question : Would this promising allrounder be of more value to India as a batsman or bowler in the years to come ? |
| 21 | Although they tend to fit one pencil size only , there are rather more expensive holders available for use with wide pencils and industrial chalks which may be of some help to artists . |
| 22 | ‘ Livée , perhaps you can be of some help to Citizen Vaubrun , ’ said Mme de Ratho pointedly . |
| 23 | For a start , it does n't cover the aspect of emptiness which I consider to be of most relevance to anorexia nervosa , that is , its peculiar meaning for females rather than males . |
| 24 | One of the modules likely to be of most interest to teacher researchers is Professional Development in Action . |
| 25 | Although the events may be of most interest to people over 50 , views and ideas from everyone will be welcomed . |
| 26 | The survey was closed on 17th October , 1984 , and , of necessity , the analysis and discussion in this report covers those areas considered to be of most value to SERC that could be assessed quickly : this interim report was required by the end of November , 1984 . |
| 27 | MITI believes that such exports should be of less concern to advocates of managed trade than consumer goods , because components increase the competitiveness — and therefore the export potential — of the industries that buy them . |
| 28 | Political parties , for example , may not present such an ‘ open face ’ to women ; their agendas may be of less interest to women or women may face more difficulties in fitting in with their timetables and organisation . |
| 29 | These forces have been described as ‘ Wallacian ’ ( Harper , 1977 ) , because they represent those agents of natural selection that were of more concern to Wallace than to Darwin in accounting for how organisms are as they are and behave as they do . |
| 30 | But that 's of little consolation to John Deakin . |