Example sentences of "is [prep] little [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it may cause a degree of hypoalbuminaemia through an intestinal leak of plasma , it is not a blood-sucker and consequently is of little pathogenic significance in dogs , causing only mild digestive upsets and occasional diarrhoea . |
| 2 | H. gallinarum is widespread in most poultry flocks and is of little pathogenic significance in itself , but is of great importance in the epidemiology of Histomonas . |
| 3 | And the fact that the LP 's outer sleeve depicts dozens of oranges bouncing on the moon 's surface is of little metaphorical significance . |
| 4 | Since both were wrong , it is of little practical significance that where the one saw the change stealing upon the scene like a thief in the night , the other envisaged the proletariat oppressed beyond further endurance rising in response to the call to the class war to enforce the change . |
| 5 | Their report is of little practical use and in some cases can be positively misleading , but the building societies and banks insist upon having it . |
| 6 | Knowledge memorized as a list of facts is of little practical use unless backed up by activities that put it to work . |
| 7 | Knowledge memorized as a list of facts is of little practical use unless backed up by activities that put it to work . |
| 8 | In the best traditions of the state 's statistics , a truthful answer will not be known for several years ( ie , when it is of little practical use ) . |
| 9 | Therefore , while Cornell and French ( 1983a ; 1983b ) have derived a generalized no-arbitrage condition for the case when interest rates are stochastic and there is marking to the market , it is of little practical interest . |