Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] be [prep] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some mannerisms may not be of great use to the interviewer in assessing your character but they may work against you by being irritating . |
| 2 | This can be difficult to organize and may not be of great use to the teacher either in planning lessons or in providing feedback for diagnostic purposes . |
| 3 | On some occasions it may not be of great importance to the patient 's health whether he is treated at that time or perhaps at all . |
| 4 | Although the issue may not be of great interest in urban areas , it is important in rural areas , and I wonder whether the Bill will tackle the problem of road widths and the width of vehicles travelling down narrow country lanes . |
| 5 | In the student example , the fact that the person is female may not be of great significance and therefore there could be an attribute ‘ sex ’ of the person entity . |
| 6 | Naturally we lose some points at the beginning and end ( four in this case ) but this may not be of great importance in a long series . |
| 7 | This need not be of great concern to management , however , given the capacity of most companies to finance themselves through retained earnings . |
| 8 | A broad awareness of the details of initial teacher education will not be of great assistance to a school other than to bring into some kind of focus an activity which used to appear to be both distant and unrelated . |
| 9 | As a one-term loser Bush will not be in great demand for £15,000 a time dinner speeches and lectures across the globe . |