Example sentences of "would be of [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , by itself , the ban — though symbolically disturbing — would be of little significance in the context of American scientific and academic strength . |
| 2 | This would be of little significance if the Chronicle in question were not the only source to record some important episodes . |
| 3 | However , simply to accord casual workers a dependent employee status would be of little relevance to them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They might well prevail in any skirmish with the local forces , but in the circumstances that would be of little profit . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If American-Soviet differences were settled , he observed , American relations with Britain ( like American interests in the Balkans ) would be of little consequence . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Were this the case , then Kuhn 's account of science would be of little value as a theory of science . |
| 14 | His report would be of little value otherwise . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This , however , would have been to trivialize : the results would be of little interest . |
| 17 | With less than an hour of daylight remaining , he carried a flashlight — not that it would be of much help with the rain cascading down as if the Maya Rain God had corralled every raincloud in Central America and pulled the plugs out . |
| 18 | In fact the uncertainty is so wide that is doubtful if the forecast would be of much value . |
| 19 | He learned nothing that would be of much use to Lorton . |
| 20 | Some of their skills and knowledge are specific to the company for which they work , and they would be of less value to another company . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't think a change of manager would be of any benefit to Crystal Palace . |
| 22 | Neither her mother nor her father would be of any use at all . |
| 23 | ‘ She does mostly ladies ’ slippers , ’ Emily said , ‘ I do n't think she would be of any use to you . ’ |
| 24 | In the case of the database project , it is doubtful that the machine-readable data would be of any use whatsoever . |
| 25 | The incident 's being regarded as an opportunist theft and it 's unlikely anything taken would be of any use to a drug abuser . |
| 26 | But he rather doubted , he said , glancing around mordantly , that shamanistic powers would be of any interest to such a gathering . |
| 27 | During the course of negotiating the sale of some etchings by his friend J. E. Laboureur to Byard , a director of Heinemann 's , Boulestin asked if a cookery book would be of any interest at that moment . |
| 28 | Both texts then seem to abandon the question of what Matroc 's competitors do and move on to consider the types of customer in the market place and whether the brochure would be of any value to them . |
| 29 | ‘ And you consider that only a psychiatrist 's opinion would be of any value ? ’ |
| 30 | A similar approach would be of some benefit to the ANLT system . |