Example sentences of "no use to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet this apparently admirable material proved to be of almost no use to the party . |
| 2 | By the eighteenth century there was a considerable parting of the ways since the more erudite mathematical treatises on perspective , such as those by Lambert and Monge , were of no use to the practising artist . |
| 3 | They told me that it was of no use to me any more and that I 'd be better off letting them have it . |
| 4 | ‘ No use to me . |
| 5 | They are of no use to anyone locked in a store . |
| 6 | The larger sized boards are also suitable for beginners though footstraps and mast track will be no use to a novice . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm no use to anyone in football and I had better get out , ’ he said . |
| 8 | member of Master Humphrey 's circle , who resides with him and acts as his secretary and steward : ‘ something of a musician , something of an author , something of an actor , something of a painter , very much of a carpenter , and an extraordinary gardener , having had all his life a wonderful aptitude for learning everything that was of no use to him . |
| 9 | Of no use to man , woman or child ’ . ' |
| 10 | ‘ It ca n't go far , it 's no use to us as it is and we may be able to pick it up some other time . ’ |
| 11 | Hugh , who had worn the uniform of a verderer for less than a twelvemonth , was no use to them as a guide and as the day grew on it became evident that his arm was causing him a great deal of pain . |
| 12 | They 're no use to anyone in the Bazaar , they all have modern rifles now . |
| 13 | Trade would benefit from gaols being cleared of debtors who were of no use to their creditors or the community while in confinement . |
| 14 | One to buy if you have friends ( so it 's no use to a Spectrum user ) . |
| 15 | Jamila was no use to him and he did n't want to fuck her . |
| 16 | ( Note — this knowledge would be of no use to me in Greece , where no butcher knows them . ) |
| 17 | No use to them . |
| 18 | But a sleek sailing boat that spends all its time in harbour is no use to anyone . |
| 19 | Reading through Robert Green 's trade card it seems highly unlikely that a client would want to purchase outright such items as the velvet pall , the room hangings , the large silvered candlesticks and sconces , or the feathers and cloaks , for these objects would be of little or no use to the purchaser once the funeral had taken place . |
| 20 | Mica and asbestos were of no use to stone-age men for tools and weapons because the planes of weakness run straight through from one side to the other . |
| 21 | If he could have talked to her in Italian it would have been different , but his correct English , which he had learned from his mother who had had an English governess , and which he only ever spoke with her friends or on a case that required it , was of no use to him now . |
| 22 | If Mace means what is ordinarily meant by ‘ my body as it appears to me ’ then the distinction he draws is of no use to us . |
| 23 | ‘ What I 'm interested in is no use to the private sector . |
| 24 | But even they were no use to the unmarried mothers without fathers to mind the babies . |
| 25 | The ugly fact that if women are ultimately shut out of the industry , organisation and better conditions will be of no use to them , has been carefully glossed over " . |
| 26 | Criticize positively and constructively everything you 're made of and everything you do ( but do n't destroy yourself in the process — you are no use to anyone as a nervous wreck with an inferiority complex ) . |
| 27 | So you were — but as soon as they put you in my arms I could see you were no use to me ! ’ |
| 28 | When I go back there , my mind grows confused ; I seem a madman , no use to anyone . ’ |
| 29 | You 're no use to me the way you are . |
| 30 | Jam left in the jar , he would say , would turn bitter and go off and be of no use to anyone . |