Example sentences of "would [verb] be little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the saving of water this system would have produced as compared with normal lockage would have been little more than 50 per cent , a benefit that would hardly justify the installation of the lift if water saving was the main object . |
| 2 | If MI5 had obeyed the 1952 Maxwell Fyfe guidelines then there would have been little cause for complaint about its activities over the past 35 years . |
| 3 | ‘ And there would have been little risk , if they had bothered to ask at Snow Hill what time the beat constable was due to pass by . |
| 4 | There would have been little room to work or store on the gallery , but it could have been a convenient place to display finished work for the approval of the merchants riding round the countryside in search of stock , as the main road passes nearby and upon which the main flow of riders would have travelled . |
| 5 | If young people posed no threat in terms of allegiance , there would have been little need of so many reform programmes . |
| 6 | On foot there would have been little danger for a man alone ; even on horseback not much . |
| 7 | As a result there would have been little or no evolutionary pressure on cats to develop an anti-stranger reaction where kittens are concerned . |
| 8 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 9 | To execute him for treason indeed would have been little help to the government in its attempt to crush and discredit the Reformation , but they could not proceed against him for heresy in due form until England was reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 10 | Leibniz would have been little more than an impressionable fool in Kant 's eyes had the caterpillar that he treated with such consideration been a mere thing . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) Some of the express provisions of section 10(9) — for example paragraphs ( c ) and ( d ) ( i ) — as to the matters to which the court is to have particular regard in deciding an application for leave to apply for a section 8 order would be otiose if the whole application were subject to the overriding provisions of section 1(1). ( 3 ) There would have been little point in Parliament providing that the court was to have particular regard to the wishes and feelings of the child 's parent , if the whole decision were to be subject to the overriding ( paramount ) consideration of the child 's welfare . |
| 12 | Given the importance of the " last in , first out " principle in British industry , the experiences of many members of the temporary labour force would have been little different from what they actually were . |
| 13 | Until recently there would have been little dispute with the Keynesian view that the maintenance of demand in the economy was one of the central responsibilities of governments . |
| 14 | Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there . |