Sentence examples for were of much value from inspiring English sources

Only portable goods, therefore, were of much value to nomads, though of course their animals allowed them to transport heavier loads than human strength alone could support.

"The idea of P.R.T.'s in Iraq is probably too late to be of much value," Mr. Barton said.

"I've never felt that eye-witness accounts so long after the event are of much value," he says.

But these books are a relatively small part of the market, and most are unlikely to be of much value.

There isn't enough advertising money around to support the 500-channel universe that seems to be in our future, and each channel will be too narrowly focussed to be of much value to advertisers anyway.

He said the Greens would do well "given that strategic opportunity of being able to approach people who have a regional vote that they know won't be of much value to the SNP, but who want a political party that will speak to some of the issues that they care about.

Representative Monique Davis, the lone member of the Illinois House to oppose the law, said that although she favored the state's sex offender registry, "I just don't think that a murderer registry is of much value to anyone except those getting paid to set it up".

Back of my mind, I think these are too politicized to be of much value for us".

We've heard it said that such gains wouldn't be of much value, as one-time events don't get reflected in the stock price.

In view of the high Curie temperature of NKN ceramics, the NKN-BZT binary system is of much value as a piezoelectric material [8 12].

Most of the respondents from the firms at the preliminary stages have a strong opinion on this aspect that they don't face any apprehensions to freeze relationships if they don't seem to be of much value mutually.