Example sentences of "any use " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The actual speed at the time is usually far too slow to allow for any use of the airbrakes , but there is plenty of room ahead for a safe landing . |
| 3 | In the final weeks of the Reagan administration , State Department plans for a ‘ surgical strike ’ against General Noriega were scotched by the Pentagon , which estimated that any use of US troops would cause several hundred military and civilian deaths . |
| 4 | It is no use us trying to clobber the economy with high taxation any more than it 's any use Lawson clobbering the economy with high interest rates … |
| 5 | This order was annulled on 26 October by the Smolensk guberniia party committee for being excessive and too late to be of any use . |
| 6 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | If the directives were to be criticised , it would have to be on the basis that any use of the power would damage the reputation of the British broadcasting authorities for independence and that that price was not worth paying for so small an effect . |
| 9 | But the NATO council would deal with any use of a purely NATO Reaction Force . |
| 10 | He does n't think it 's any use just telling people things . |
| 11 | Then Harriet Shakespeare said , more softly and sounding puzzled , ‘ So why is it any use talking to me ? |
| 12 | It was not really any use . |
| 13 | Warton replies : ‘ It can not be of any use to the dead themselves . |
| 14 | PS Nutty 's got a good pair of legs if they 're any use to you , why do n't you slice your way over here to see them ? do n't think he 'd miss them as he 's legless most of the time anyway . |
| 15 | ‘ Go on , Wilson , though it may not be of any use . ’ |
| 16 | An image-forming eye , with lens , iris and so on , would not have evolved if nothing short of the formation of accurate images was of any use . |
| 17 | ‘ You would n't be any use at the job , if you had nothing to lose . |
| 18 | This notion was soon abandoned , along with any use of the S-R framework ( see , e.g. Gibson and Gibson 1955 ) , to be replaced by the suggestion that perceptual learning can go on quite independently of any associative processes . |
| 19 | However , I doubt that the book will be of any use to the professional . |
| 20 | But the quaint idea did occur to her that she might simply go on and on perfecting her role , delighting simply in her ability to deceive , and never , till the end , making any use of her deception . |
| 21 | ‘ Never had any use for poetry myself , but I used to like that one . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It may be that they simply see no value in the building or that they are concerned that any use of the building might detract from their estate or business . |
| 24 | This was in fact a propaganda exercise to bring home to the men in the street the looming realities of total war : cast iron was not of any use in manufacturing guns or tanks . |
| 25 | I mean , Diana herself has never in her lifetime uttered one statement that has been of any use to any member of the human race . ’ |
| 26 | Second , once identified , can they be of any use in helping us solve real-life issues ? |
| 27 | They also wish to know whether punishment — be it physical or psychological — is of any use whatsoever . |
| 28 | These need to be as specific as possible , including a timetable for action if they are to be of any use . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't think it 's any use looking after old people unless you really care and really like old people . ’ |
| 30 | AN OLD CAMBRIDGE toast is , ‘ Here 's to pure mathematics — may she never be of any use to anyone ! ’ |