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

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1 We have kindly been provided with a VHS copy of the above stock footage by ART films with regard to an educational non-broadcast video entitled Project Video which we are currently filming and which will be for use in teaching English as a foreign language to secondary school age students throughout the world .
2 The US 's supplies are supposed to be for use only in national catastrophes such as war .
3 Supplied by MSB Mikrocomputer Software Handelsges mbh of Vienna , the X-Windows-for-PC package will be for use by all Austrian universities and polytechnics .
4 Walling may have one or two faces , so a one-face finish may not be suitable for using as the edge of a tread instead of a paving slab , but would be for use underneath the slab .
5 The social services department should also tell you about services provided by itself or other services known to it which could be of use to you .
6 Hopefully , our experience will be of use to them . ’
7 A fourth will be charged with having information likely to be of use to terrorists .
8 James Stewart , aged 23 , of Belfast , was accused of having documents on IRA suspects likely to be of use to terrorists planning murder .
9 They will be of use to somebody . ’
10 Owen , feeling at last that he ought to retire from contra matters — — but remembering what he had sworn ‘ on the altar of God ’ — hoped that he might still be of use to North ‘ against another group of Godless communists . ’
11 They had wonderful opportunities for sport and also for learning as many things as possible that might be of use for their future development .
12 They paid their rent every Friday ( the money was put straight into a jar for Oreste 's journey ) and always enquired if there was any way in which they could be of use to their landlady in her circumstances .
13 Prof Oesterhelt said that bacteriorhodopsin could be of use in its own right , in a prototype ‘ biological computer . ’
14 The policy document suggested here could also be of use in this regard , by facilitating local discussion and thus helping to keep the development effort in line with the wishes and aspirations of the people .
15 From the outset however they set themselves the objectives , not only producing a comprehensive study of land ownership in the region which would be of use to local groups and also capable of influencing regional and National land policy , but equally importantly , of reaching these goals through a very specific manner of research .
16 Its aim was to bring into ‘ one easy and concise view ’ what might be of use to those ‘ hindered by other avocations from bestowing much time in the study of this delightful and innocent work ’ .
17 In 1771 , Miller 's successor , William Forsyth , reported to the Garden Committee that Mr Miller , an engraver , desired to view and take plants ‘ as may be of use in the work he is now engaged on ’ .
18 The booklets will be of use to any industry sector that uses chemicals .
19 In Germany , most companies are partnerships , rather than quoted companies , and they are exempt from disclosing information which could be of use to competitors .
20 As Director of the newly established Household the Emperor appointed Achille Fould , of the banking dynasty , whose financial expertise would obviously be of use in the organization of what could well be a costly affair .
21 He visited the horrible flat every day to see if he could be of use .
22 There are several other crops which may be of use to you to suit particular conditions .
23 At the very time this highly specialised library of books on the cotton industry was being dispersed , without even being checked against the holdings of the British Library — the book here listed is not to be found in their catalogue — the New Mills Heritage Centre was trying to put together a collection of books which would be of use to students visiting what had been , among other achievements , the home of the British calico printing industry .
24 Clearly these libraries might contain information that would be of use to an enemy .
25 Moreover they could not see how a bureau could be of use to them .
26 He was well-read and clever , and he made it easy for stupid men to respect his intellect if he thought they could be of use to him .
27 There was a celebrated individual who devoted a large part of his life to carefully recording everything that he observed ; upon his death , this complete set of observations was presented to the Royal Society in the hope that it would be of use to scientists .
28 Whilst first aid remedies may be of use for each episode of acute illness , proper constitutional treatment and advice is likely to be more appropriate to help with the long term tendency to become unwell repeatedly .
29 May be of use if someone is malnourished or the bones are not healing ( non-union ) .
30 May be of use if a small chip has come off a bone .
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