Example sentences of "[pron] would be little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horse box charge from the south would be a minimum of £500 and more for those coming from the West Country , so there would be little change from a £2,000 race when all the expenses , including the deductions for trainer , jockey and stable lads have been completed . |
| 2 | Miners ' leaders attending a special conference of the National Union of Mineworkers in Sheffield yesterday backed away from a strike over the imposition of a 7.6 per cent pay rise by British Coal , when they realised there would be little support from members . |
| 3 | But clergywomen say there would be little value in that . |
| 4 | All these transactions were secret , for there would be little use in keeping a paper alive if it were known to be owned by a political party . |
| 5 | His idea , she realised , was that if he saw to it that she had enough work to keep her occupied both at work and at home , there would be little time left over , if she wanted to keep on top of her job , for any social life with Travis . |
| 6 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that if the principle that the Government applied in cancelling £14.5 billion worth of debt for all nationalised industries before privatisation were applied to local authorities , there would be little debt left to repay ? |
| 7 | In the case of mouth , if one knew what an animal 's mouth was , and one were to hear , for the first time , a reference to the mouth of a river , I surmise that there would be little difficulty in construing the meaning ; but suppose one were familiar only with mouth used to refer to the mouth of a river , and one heard a reference to the horse 's mouth , it is by no means certain that one 's attention would be directed to the appropriate end of the horse ! |
| 8 | In these areas there would be little vehicle penetration , allowing primacy of movement to the pedestrian . |
| 9 | The other catfish would also have to be left out , and there would be little scope for adding more fish later , but if you bear this in mind , you could create a comparable scene in a 36″ tank for quite a bit less outlay . |
| 10 | There were advantages for the Board in deploying all but a few of its full-time teachers as subject-specialist staff tutors based in Cambridge — notably the fact that there would be little problem in constructing a viable programme for each one , with the whole of the Board 's area to cover . |
| 11 | Of course , if it were simply a matter of agreeing on an arbitrary definition , there would be little problem . |
| 12 | If the division of labour within the enterprise were as ( tendentially ) uniform as Marx and Braverman suppose then there would be little problem in specifying this ‘ division by strata ’ : it would simply be the paradigmatic division within the enterprise ( mass of simple labour , restricted cadre of intellectual workers and N.C.O.s ) writ large . |
| 13 | But enquiries from two missionary friends already recruited as Kachin advisers made me realise that there would be little opportunity to influence policy and relationships . |
| 14 | There would be little chance of continuing to see flowers in militias ' buttonholes . |
| 15 | Thiercelin had prepared his plan in advance , for there would be little chance of giving coherent orders in the heat of battle . |
| 16 | But if he knew his Commander as well as he thought he did , there would be little chance of that . |
| 17 | ‘ Upstairs there would be little cubicles where you could sit with your girl and have a drink . |
| 18 | These professional barriers ensured that there would be little interaction even when the disciplines were working on parallel problems . |
| 19 | Victor , sensing that there would be little sleep but much talking and soul-searching that night , thoughtfully brought up a tray of coffee and a bottle of cognac . |
| 20 | The doctors conclude in the British Medical Journal that there would be little benefit if all women in the UK were given zinc supplements during pregnancy . |
| 21 | There would be little need or purpose for Lib Dems to stand down , first because Lib Dem voters would be less likely to vote Labour than Labour voters would be to vote Lib Dem , and secondly because the Lib Dems are , anyway , greatly underrepresented by our system . |
| 22 | ( 3 ) The purchaser may consider that given the financial standing of the vendor there would be little prospect of recovery from the vendor for undisclosed liabilities of the company even if the purchaser were to succeed with a warranty claim against the vendor . |
| 23 | Thiercelin should soon be returned anyway , when there would be little point in staying any longer . |
| 24 | Clearly there would be little point in reviewing the experience unless it helped you to reach some conclusions . |
| 25 | ‘ I could build an electric lute , ’ Arthur continued , ‘ but there would be little point : no one is making music for electric lutes . ’ |
| 26 | As general wisdom , the view in the pensions industry is that for most people with an existing Section 226 policy there would be little point in changing — and for high earners , in particular , it could be positively detrimental . |
| 27 | It is obvious that a suitable norm of comparison should be what Enkvist calls " a contextually related norm " There would be little point in comparing Jane Austen 's style with that of contemporary legal writs or twentieth-century parliamentary reports . |
| 28 | There would be little point in having these different norms ( which are arbitrary in linguistic terms ) if they did not carry social meaning , distinguishing between one community and another and carrying a sense of community identity for speakers . |
| 29 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |
| 30 | Indeed , in many industries there would be little point in raising the skill level unless workers are given more advanced capital equipment on which to work . |