Example sentences of "would make little [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Corbett sensed he would make little princess if de Craon continued in this vein ; he walked over to where a small , wooden crucifix was nailed to the mast and put his hand on it . |
2 | Large sums of money were being spent on the expansion of arts degree courses whose students would make little contribution to Britain 's economic welfare . |
3 | In practice one suspects that it would make little sense to the participants in any of these cases to ask who is really being supported : . |
4 | If my toothache were an event analogous to , but entirely separated from the neurophysiological process that accompanies it , it would make little sense going to a dentist in search of relief . |
5 | Similarly , in the case of a plant under threat of closure , a strike would make little sense if the company intended moving the stock and machinery elsewhere . |
6 | It would make little sense in this context to increase the categories of sexual assault simply to maintain gender specificity . |
7 | One view holds it might be worth preserving only information derived from the telecommunications record , but that it would make little sense to keep it all . |
8 | Viewed in this way , attempts to delimit pragmatics in the ways explored above would make little sense ; pragmatics would not be a component or level of linguistic theory but a way of looking afresh at the data and methods of linguistics . |
9 | Without such a move , the current attempts to define the notion of logical consequence more or less directly on fragments of natural language ( as initiated by Montague , 1974 ) would make little sense as a general semantic programme . |
10 | Many estate agents were whistling to keep up their confidence this week , claiming that people were already used to the idea of higher mortgage rates and that the latest increase would make little difference . |
11 | In any case the French army had , by 1851 , become accustomed to changes of regime , so that many may have thought one more would make little difference . |
12 | It would make little difference what time of day it was . |
13 | This would make little difference except on the occasions when , by ill luck , one or more such items of infalling material happened to be big . |
14 | One more would make little difference to him and Seb had first-hand experience of the man 's anger . |
15 | Officials gloomily realised that the inadequate billeting arrangements devised by Whitehall had discredited the scheme , and a propaganda campaign would make little difference . |
16 | As throughout the tour , Ashenden had observed the opportunist self-seekers at the front of the queue ( as ever ) for the room-keys ; and in the rear ( as ever ) the quieter , seemingly contented souls who perhaps knew that being first or last to their rooms would make little difference to the quality of their living . |
17 | Isambard would make little ado about hanging a marauding boy who had attempted his life , especially one who was no business of the county justices or the crown , and had no one in England to take his part . |