Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be little " in BNC.
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| 1 | These basic requirements were not often met , and teachers were confronted with , and expected to adopt , ideas which might be little more than expressions of officially endorsed belief . |
| 2 | ‘ She would be little more than a child if she has lived , ’ he said . |
| 3 | You will be physically smaller and able to fit into smaller clothes but you will still be flabby and unfit , or , if you overdo it , you will be little more than skin and bone . |
| 4 | There may be little or no hope of finding those particular items , but there are many others to be collected , some as yet unrecorded . |
| 5 | Hence , there may be little or no incentive for a low paid worker to strive for a higher income , whether by gaining promotion or by working overtime , if the welfare benefits previously received disappear rapidly as income rises . |
| 6 | It was also assumed that if people had more of their gross income to spend as they chose then they would purchase goods and services that they wanted rather than the state spending money on goods and services for which there may be little or no demand . |
| 7 | Added to this , the Government 's expressed aim to reduce public expenditure suggests there may be little or no overall boost to the Regional Council 's capital budget . |
| 8 | The recurrence of calculi after removal and the lack of substantial reduction in frequency of cholangitis indicates that there may be little to be gained in many of these patients by multiple manipulations of the biliary tree to achieve clearance . |
| 9 | In this case there may be little to lose by restricting earnings to £77,400 per annum . |
| 10 | Regarding the question of pole pieces , there should be little or no difference in performance between pickups ( of identical specification ) fitted with Allen head screws , compared to those fitted with slot head screws . |
| 11 | They are free to rotate and the brakes work , so if for any reason a wheels-up arrival is made there should be little or no damage to the airframe . |
| 12 | Indeed , there might be little to prevent some of the orders being cancelled when the new year commences . |
| 13 | Even with that level of scrutiny , there could be little hope of containing fraud , which is already a serious drain on the EC 's coffers and on its reputation . |
| 14 | Although no reports on incidental killings of small cetaceans in the new Tasman/South Pacific drift-net fishery were provided by the Taiwanese , Japanese , or Korean governments , there could be little doubt of the damage being done . |
| 15 | On the basis of the most recent evidence , there could be little doubt that Judas Thomas was indeed Jesus 's brother — the brother mentioned in the Gospels as Jude . |
| 16 | There could be little doubt that Richard and his elder brother would give very different answers to these questions . |
| 17 | But of his courage , though it was not of a kind that Hotspur admired , there could be little doubt ; and of his ability and calculating detachment , none . |
| 18 | Primo de Rivera was still alive and there could be little doubt that he would be opposed to the idea , for , even before the rising , he had warned against the danger of becoming the puppets of the military . |
| 19 | In fact , if it were n't for the big blue logo and Oli Frey pic on the cover , there 'd be little to indicate to an early reader that this was indeed the same mag ! |
| 20 | But it does n't pay to be too jumpy , and run away from every approaching shape , or there 'd be little time left for anything else . |
| 21 | Miners ' leaders attending a special conference of the National Union of Mineworkers in Sheffield yesterday backed away from a strike over the imposition of a 7.6 per cent pay rise by British Coal , when they realised there would be little support from members . |
| 22 | The horse box charge from the south would be a minimum of £500 and more for those coming from the West Country , so there would be little change from a £2,000 race when all the expenses , including the deductions for trainer , jockey and stable lads have been completed . |
| 23 | If the manager had no commitment , there would be little or no training aspect . |
| 24 | All these transactions were secret , for there would be little use in keeping a paper alive if it were known to be owned by a political party . |
| 25 | With reinstatement forming a continuous process disturbance to agriculture would be minimal and apart from the quarry face being worked there would be little to spoil the view either . |
| 26 | By contrast , very little is known about Buxton ; but for its name , which includes the element Aquae , as with Bath , there would be little to indicate the existence of a major Roman site . |
| 27 | There would be little to be lost from going the whole hog . ’ |
| 28 | However , in practice , if your claim is successful we would expect to recover all or most of your legal costs in addition to the compensation and so there would be little or no shortfall . |
| 29 | His idea , she realised , was that if he saw to it that she had enough work to keep her occupied both at work and at home , there would be little time left over , if she wanted to keep on top of her job , for any social life with Travis . |
| 30 | But clergywomen say there would be little value in that . |