Example sentences of "would [be] [prep] great [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If honourable members would in fact stick to the debate in that particular way and in fact er er it would be of great advantage of the house it is a short debate er and and going off the the main scope of the debate in fact leaves less time for other people to speak .
2 The regional CBI believed that that would be of great benefit and was grateful for my right hon. Friend 's measures to alleviate the uniform business rate .
3 If it were abandoned , the burden on local authorities of trying to collect what the Prime Minister described as a virtually uncollectable tax would be substantially lightened , and that would be of great benefit .
4 So to a certain extent the idea was to that if we had the thing worked out it would be of great benefit to the people who were popping by .
5 Any progress to be made in this almost uncharted area would be of great significance to communication and those who apply it .
6 In 1982 the Soviet Third World specialist Primakov asserted that ‘ an understanding on the military neutralisation of a number of regions where an accumulation of armed forces and armaments is taking place would be of great significance ’ .
7 I if that could be copied er perhaps er that would be of great assistance .
8 Furthermore , the stigmatising effects of a residual model of service provision , by which the state intervened with direct help only when all else fails , would be of great concern .
9 ‘ It would be of great help . ’
10 Meanwhile it would be of great help if the accuracy of death certification could be improved , possibly through audit .
11 Nevertheless the Cuk converter topology seems likely to remain an outsider until a true trade-off comparison can be made between Cuk and Buck at a series of realistic equivalent performance levels , a task that would take a lot of time , but whose results would be of great interest to many in the power supply design field .
12 Clearly , their thermal maturity would be of great interest , as Silurian shales are also known to subcrop south of the Thames Estuary ( Wills 1973 ) .
13 It is known that the RUC has accumulated considerable evidence which would be of great interest to an impartial inquiry .
14 The frustration of life without a torch , illustrated by either a feature or a demonstration , could interest the men 's press , and special car fitments for fixing a torch inside the car would be of great interest to the motoring media .
15 A more detailed life of Lord Reading , Liberal leader in the House of Lords and an important actor in the events of 1931 , would be of great value .
16 ( 3 ) Your house has come up in a random sample of houses in this area and , if you are a full-time housewife , we would like you to tell us about your working day since ( 4 ) we believe that a survey of this subject would be of great value in helping all housewives .
17 The most immediate practical benefits are likely to be in foreign language teaching , where clear statements of the rules of gender would be of great value .
18 Such an alternator would be of great use in a motorcaravan conversion I intend doing on a V8 Land Rover .
19 But many ground-living birds would be in great difficulties if their chicks hatched at markedly different times .
20 In a June 4 editorial entitled Stability overrides all other considerations , Renmin Ribao ( the People 's Daily ) , the Communist Party newspaper , commented that " China would be in great chaos now " if the 1989 " rebellion " had not been quelled .
21 I think fox-hunting in Islington would be quite indefensible : with all those cars and buses , the hounds and horses would be in great danger , as would the huntsmen themselves and the foxes .
22 If word reached Meredith Putt that there had been witnesses to his crime Seb would be in great danger .
23 There were untold numbers of pleasure boats : some skimming over the bay , while others were closely berthed within the harbour , waiting the evening hour , when they would be in great demand .
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