Example sentences of "[noun] would [be] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of the database project , it is doubtful that the machine-readable data would be of any use whatsoever . |
| 2 | I think that is an absolute fantasy and I think that it is er perhaps going too far in our denigration of members of local authorities to think their attitude towards their police force would be in any way changed , were some of the members to be appointed from a list which had been drawn up by the Home Secretary . |
| 3 | It has been suggested ( Knuth 1969 , pp. 199–201 ) that testing for floating.point zero is not appropriate , and that a more suitable test would be for any value in a small range about zero , the size of which could be set by the programmer . |
| 4 | What O'Neillism did for Paisleyism was to raise in a concrete way the possibility of change from being a Protestant society and culture ( constantly threatened by the old enemy within and without ) to being a secular modern society in which religious affiliation would be of little consequence . |
| 5 | ‘ And you consider that only a psychiatrist 's opinion would be of any value ? ’ |
| 6 | And then erm they eggs would be in this incubator for about a week and then they used to arrange coops for them to go out do you see , we used to fence a field below the mansion , , in the field there , because there was a good in enclosure right round the two drives and then there were shelter you see . |
| 7 | But he rather doubted , he said , glancing around mordantly , that shamanistic powers would be of any interest to such a gathering . |
| 8 | It was the last time he and Falkenhayn would be in such agreement . |
| 9 | the right sort of order of magnitude of allocation to the new settlement , the remainder of the hundred and forty five hectares would be within that ring on that plan . |
| 10 | Neither her mother nor her father would be of any use at all . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think a change of manager would be of any benefit to Crystal Palace . |
| 12 | A majority for Imperial preference in a general election would be of little use from the Dominion point of view , since it was ‘ obvious that the whole system might be capsized in a year or two . |
| 13 | But that did not mean that the ethos of a Roman catholic state would be in any way diminished , only that the form of political religious power would be different . |
| 14 | A lot of his personality , you know you have to like jolly people into liking and sublimating what their own inclination would be to some kind of group style . |
| 15 | A similar approach would be of some benefit to the ANLT system . |
| 16 | Both texts then seem to abandon the question of what Matroc 's competitors do and move on to consider the types of customer in the market place and whether the brochure would be of any value to them . |
| 17 | Were this the case , then Kuhn 's account of science would be of little value as a theory of science . |
| 18 | This , however , would have been to trivialize : the results would be of little interest . |
| 19 | However , simply to accord casual workers a dependent employee status would be of little relevance to them . |
| 20 | During the course of negotiating the sale of some etchings by his friend J. E. Laboureur to Byard , a director of Heinemann 's , Boulestin asked if a cookery book would be of any interest at that moment . |
| 21 | His report would be of little value otherwise . |
| 22 | Jim Oulton , GMB branch secretary , said : ‘ We knew the company was in difficulty but we did not think things were this bad or the cuts would be of this magnitude . ’ |
| 23 | ANDREW QUINN , 13 , said the show would be of more interest to 16 or 17-year-olds . |
| 24 | A serious extension of the simple analysis presented in the previous paragraph would be of more help than a thousand more studies documenting that socio-economic differentials in mortality exist . |
| 25 | It is not completely clear what the predictions of the literature on arousal and memory would be for this task . |
| 26 | In fact the uncertainty is so wide that is doubtful if the forecast would be of much value . |
| 27 | If the effect of a joint research and development ( R&D ) agreement was that the parties no longer conducted independent research and development , this would be enough to attract the application of Article 85 ( 1 ) and the agreement would be to that extent prohibited unless Article 85(3) applied . |
| 28 | There would be erm the possibility of the unitary authorities themselves getting together to prepare joint structure plans , so in as , as , instead of having a joint authority with er members joining in , in one committee to oversee the preparation of the plan , there would be individual authorities er working to their own committees with members er operating separately , but preparing through that mechanism a joint structure plan and the third option would be for each authority itself to prepare a unitary development plan , incorporating both strategic policies and the sorts of policies that we are currently seeing and familiar with in local plans . |
| 29 | One set of scenarios for the engineering industry suggests that in a country such as Norway , with small communities at the heads of the many fiords , an appropriate use of the technology would be for each community to have some equipment to produce particular parts of a product or to engage in particular parts of a production process . |
| 30 | Consider in this light the following example : It is unlikely that Shakespeare or the majority of writers in construction of their work imagined the twentieth-century reader or considered the possibility that the reader would be of another race or colour than his own ( the exception to this assumption can be found in later twentieth-century writers ) . |