Example sentences of "be immense " in BNC.
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| 1 | The political ramifications of shutting Dagenham would be immense . |
| 2 | Of all the problems dealt with , the solving of debt problems probably has the most dramatic effect for funders : for Government and local authorities the cost of personal insolvency can be immense if not properly handled ; at the same time the work done by bureaux must be saving private companies considerable sums in legal and administrative costs and in reducing their proportion of ‘ bad debts ’ . |
| 3 | The pleasures and rewards of looking after a loved one can be immense . |
| 4 | But the long-term consequences of those decisions , as Britain is starting to discover , can be immense . |
| 5 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Hillary 's reward for standing by her man and not forging too far ahead with her own individual approach will be immense — a degree of personal power that no American woman has ever savoured before . |
| 7 | The size of the place must be immense . |
| 8 | The security problems would be immense , murmured Swiss officials with apologetic sighs . |
| 9 | Pollution abatement costs for industry can indeed be immense . |
| 10 | Clearly in such developments there may be few , if any , erosional breaks , but there must be immense non-depositional breaks . |
| 11 | As discussed below , the problems of letting contracts , controlling payments and maintaining quality would be immense in the more radical proposals . |
| 12 | Although placemen never formed a majority in the Commons , attendance at the House was often low — the average attendance per session during William 's reign was 238 — so their significance could be immense if they consistently and unanimously backed the government . |
| 13 | Bob Shepton says there 's no doubt the seas could be immense … but that 's the challenge … to use your skill |
| 14 | The spin-offs would be immense . |