Sentence examples for would be precious from inspiring English sources

But Holmes would be precious without Watson's direct, manly presence.

Without ritualized taxation, there would be precious little hominid representation.

He also looks weak on education, and Mr Edwards, a trial lawyer, would be precious little help on legal reform.

Take all that away and there would be precious little information (aka the foundation of openness) left.

Some smallish Gottlieb parcels would be precious to builders who are trying to assemble large blocks of land for development.

I expected, of course, that these would be precious objects with sentimental value or gifts from loved ones.

If he were in Japan, he'd be valued as some precious, lacquered treasure".

This restlessness is one of many facets of Mr. Kerry's style and personality that is all but invisible to most voters in this era of stage-managed politics, where authentic insights into the people who would be president are precious few.

The art practices I imagine would have a different name (which I am still working on), and these different practices would be useful, communal and fun; our objects would not need to be precious because the spaces in which they are made would be safe, and reliable and always available to hold and honor more process and more production.

Such devices, he points out, "would be too precious to give away or to sell" and "too precious to waste killing people" when they could make other countries "hesitant to consider military action".

I hope that will not be for some time, because if I knew that I could die at any time I wanted, then suddenly every day would be as precious as a million pounds.