Example sentences of "it [be] useful for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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of the Social Sciences was last published in 1968 so , while it is useful for general articles , its facts are now very out of date indeed .
2 It is useful for determining changes in internal energy , changes in enthalpy and heat capacities , for example .
3 It is useful for short hair , and can be fingered in wherever you need it .
4 As this reaction is not shared by alkanes it is useful for separating mixtures of alkanes and alkenes .
5 It is useful for would-be choreographers to study the historical development of classical style so that they may stage a ballet in a traditional way when it has a story firmly linked to a particular time and place .
6 It is useful for would-be choreographers to examine his ballets and discover that he mostly set them in countries possessing easily recognised characteristics .
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