Example sentences of "[conj] there [vb mod] be little " in BNC.
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| 1 | That there would be little support for the self-appraisal in terms of any provision of time perhaps emphasized the low priority accorded to it . |
| 2 | And this week the IMF made public what everyone has been saying in private : that there can be little foreign help on offer until the Soviet Union reforms its ‘ rotten ’ economy . |
| 3 | At the time of publication the county courts in London have yet to adopt this rate , but it is submitted that there can be little real argument that the same rate should not be applied . |
| 4 | The answer is that it does , and that the justifications for doing so have been set out above — not so much because rape is a serious offence , but rather because ascertainment of the facts is so easy that there should be little substantive unfairness to defendants . |
| 5 | And there 'll be little change this afternoon , although in Argyll and the Western Isles , it will become a little brighter , if not exactly sunny , |
| 6 | The new houses , the markets would crumble in the wind and the sun and there would be little left to remind man of this strange blip of civilisation in the path of the patiently creeping sand . |
| 7 | At the Organising Committee , the retiring CEB chairman had confidently suggested that the old CEB organisation could continue to handle matters in this field and there would be little need for change : ‘ The CEB in conjunction with a strong committee on which the Ministry of Supply were represented were working hard on the generating plant extensions and it would not be necessary for the Organising Committee to worry over-much about the details of this programme in the meantime . ’ |
| 8 | But these changes aside , the rest of Blenheim is still very much as Capabilty Brown designed it — and there can be little doubting that he 'd be delighted to see his work still very much alive and admired today . |
| 9 | It may or may not resolve America 's awesome economic problems , but there can be little denying its radicalism . |
| 10 | The argument that Labour should not organise in Northern Ireland because there would be little support for it is particularly unprincipled . |
| 11 | Yet this relation , marked by many forms of co-operation , interaction and two-way movement between the ‘ market ’ and ‘ subsidized ’ areas , is nevertheless always precarious , for there can be little real doubt that it is the dominant area , the market , which either determines , or emphasizes and de-emphasizes , prevailing types of production , and there are then the familiar asymmetries : ( i ) between the notion of a necessary ‘ high culture ’ — and the pressures of the market on its continued viability ; and ( ii ) between the notion of plural ( ‘ liberal ’ ) culture and the actual profit-governed market selection of what can be readily distributed or even , in some areas , offered at all . |