Example sentences of "useful for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SYMAP has the advantage that no specialized hardware is required and is thus useful for introductory teaching at degree level . |
| 2 | The breed is particularly useful for increasing milk production in beef breeds or improving beef production in dairy herds , and is well suited to single or multiple suckling . |
| 3 | Diary techniques may be useful for longer-term studies provided they do not alter the respondent 's habits . |
| 4 | The International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences was last published in 1968 so , while it is useful for general articles , its facts are now very out of date indeed . |
| 5 | An anechoically lined chamber must be used for some immunity testing as well as being useful for general emissions and immunity testing . |
| 6 | Because the drug is less likely to depress the respiratory system than other pain-killers , it has been marketed as particularly useful for young children and the aged . |
| 7 | Bornstein ( 1979 ) also suggests that fingerspelling would not be useful for young children since it involves fine perceptions and handshapes which they themselves may not be able to form . |
| 8 | In psychological experiments , data are often derived directly by presenting the experimental subject with the required test via the screen of a computer terminal ; this is clearly most useful for visual perception studies . |
| 9 | These are used in many Oriental dishes , but are also useful for store-cupboard cookery . |
| 10 | Boxplots , showing median , interquartile range , and extreme values , are useful for quantitative outcome variables , especially when broken down by explanatory strata and displayed together . |
| 11 | Report forms are particularly useful for standard reports such as accident or progress reports . |
| 12 | This lightness makes the palm sander especially useful for overhead work or large areas of wall . |
| 13 | This is particularly useful for repetitive tasks such as kerblaying , more complex activities such as the fitting out of aeration tanks for a sewage treatment works or even in the design office for the production of reinforcement drawings or outline design drawings . |
| 14 | A concordance alphabetises all words in their context and is extremely useful for certain types of grammatical analysis . |
| 15 | Additionally , confidence can be useful for certain types of secrets for which other rights are inappropriate such as the recipe for Coca-Cola or a secret research technique or industrial process . |
| 16 | In general they are most useful for Key Stages 2 or 3 . |
| 17 | Hot-oil treatments are useful for permed , coloured , sun-dried or heat-dried hair , as a oncein-a-while extra . |
| 18 | It was also useful for decorative purposes , attaching the cells for cloisonné work to their background or securing gold droplets to filigree work . |
| 19 | As already mentioned , they are useful for strong rejection of low-frequency interfering signals originating from the mains supply , which is absolutely essential in many instances . |
| 20 | Compound words may be quite useful for various parts of grammatical analysis but are not of much use in phonology . |
| 21 | Using a positive control group with PBD , as in this study , was also useful for comparative purposes and in the interpretation of morphological changes in the fundectomy group . |
| 22 | The Universal Decimal Classification was devised with a very fine specification , and as such is found to be useful for technical libraries and for information retrieval . |
| 23 | As a novice carver I found the MAC650 very useful for controlled shaping of curved pieces with flowing lines . |
| 24 | Such things as the tenor drum , tubular bells , cow bells , jingles , castanets ( useful for Spanish rhapsodies ) , gong ( sinister , solemn , Chinese ) , tabor ( Old English ) , etc. , etc. , need not be spoken of in detail . |
| 25 | This is particularly useful for small communities and in developing countries , where special water treatment is not available or prohibitively expensive . |
| 26 | Later on try the great white cherry , Prunus ‘ Taihaku ’ or Prunus ‘ Shogetsu ’ for dramatic displays of white flowers ; ‘ Amanogawa ’ produces pale pink flowers and its fastigiate or columnar form is useful for small gardens . |
| 27 | At higher packing densities a separate overflow area may be useful for small bucket sizes , while chained overflow in the prime data area remains best for large bucket sizes . |
| 28 | Agencies other than the state produce statistics that may be useful for sociological research . |
| 29 | It is useful for determining changes in internal energy , changes in enthalpy and heat capacities , for example . |
| 30 | The assumption made above was that it would be useful for subjective risk in driving to promote accurate memory and thus aid the driver in avoiding such situations in the future . |