Example sentences of "[noun sg] be of [det] consequence " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain the legal speed limit was 12 mph but since they broke down frequently speed was of little consequence . |
| 2 | Many hundreds of cousins , the majority of the proliferation that linked the Fairleys to the other great families of England , the Pagets , the Cavendishes , the Churchills , the Devonshires , and the Spencers , did not choose lives predicated totally on loyalty to the ruling house ; those who did entered a circle in which birth and wealth were of some consequence but far less important than the taste for maintaining the moral code of the élite in all its ramifications . |
| 3 | But the EXPERTS say the difference is of little consequence . |
| 4 | The Spanish Civil War was of less consequence now it was in its dying spasms . |
| 5 | The different sizes of slate used on each main roof-slope is of little consequence because the two surfaces can not be seen together . |
| 6 | Whether these analysts commit or escape the individualistic fallacy is of little consequence because an exclusively therapeutic orientation has meant that the cultural , phylogenetic dimension of Freud 's work seems of little relevance to them . |
| 7 | Time is of little consequence out here . |