Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [prep] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this FitzGerald could be in little doubt as to the likely course the bishops would take once a referendum campaign got under way . |
| 2 | Unluckily , this may be of little help to the reader if the pictures illustrated are used as mere decoration , and not the subject of critical discussion . |
| 3 | With the wide availability of private transport their location may be of little significance unless tile primary demand is for retirement homes , when prospective purchasers will be heavily dependent on local services . |
| 4 | By the same token , new knowledge may be of little relevance to someone innovating a social instrument to satisfy a need that changing demographics or tax laws have created . |
| 5 | Demographics , for instance , may be of little concern to innovators in fundamental industrial processes like steel making , although Mergenthaler 's Linotype machine became successful primarily because there were not enough skilled typesetters available to satisfy a mass market . |
| 6 | This blurring of the boundaries may be of little consequence to users of the service , but it does have implications for the type of care they receive and which agency remains financially responsible for arranging that care . |
| 7 | For example , collocations extracted from the domain of Banking may be of little use when processing a medical report , since words like ’ charge ’ behave differently when used to describe a type of payment rather than a type of nurse . |
| 8 | Obviously , though , if M-tense and L-tense get too far apart , M-tense may be of little use to the analysis of language . |
| 9 | For example , it may be of little value that the authorities are able to control interest rates via monetary instruments if the relevant objectives are not very sensitive to changes in interest rates . |
| 10 | Development shoot-outs as suggested by one researcher may be a way of widening the solution arena ( Quinn , 1986 ) , but if the uncertainties are too high even this approach may be of little value . |
| 11 | ( The type and purpose of those structures may be of little importance . ) |
| 12 | IT MAY be of little comfort to Euro Disney 's shareholders , but all France 's leisure parks are struggling to make ends meet . |
| 13 | And , by itself , the ban — though symbolically disturbing — would be of little significance in the context of American scientific and academic strength . |
| 14 | This would be of little significance if the Chronicle in question were not the only source to record some important episodes . |
| 15 | However , simply to accord casual workers a dependent employee status would be of little relevance to them . |
| 16 | In most cases , the kind of predictions about successive words which are possible from the preceding context are much less specific and would select a very large class of words , which would be of little help in discriminating between possible candidates . |
| 17 | If , as it may be , such a system would cost more to operate than grant payments do , it would be of little advantage except in the important psychological sense that it would be a greater personal investment by the farmer over a longer time period . |
| 18 | They might well prevail in any skirmish with the local forces , but in the circumstances that would be of little profit . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The last of these must be the overriding consideration ; it would be of little use to develop a unit on an unusual system not readily available to the target population in schools , and not likely to be available in the near future . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For instance , the confirmation of the conjecture that samples of iron extracted from its ore by some new process will , like other iron , expand when heated , would be of little consequence . |
| 23 | If American-Soviet differences were settled , he observed , American relations with Britain ( like American interests in the Balkans ) would be of little consequence . |
| 24 | The obvious solution , one might think , would be to increase the number of 100-word samples taken , to six or perhaps nine , but this too would be of little value if there were great variability within the book . |
| 25 | Were this the case , then Kuhn 's account of science would be of little value as a theory of science . |
| 26 | His report would be of little value otherwise . |
| 27 | Perhaps more importantly , the total number of crimes committed would be of little interest because there is great variation in the meaning and significance of individual criminal acts . |
| 28 | This , however , would have been to trivialize : the results would be of little interest . |
| 29 | This measure may be of use to health care planners , but , even if it is eventually validated and accepted as an equitable way of allocating resources , it will be of little help to general practitioners , whose decisions are mostly concerned with managing self limiting minor illnesses . |
| 30 | TO most people Yorkshire Television 's takeover of ( or merger with ) Tyne Tees Television will be of little significance beyond the changes they will see on screen . |