Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] have made a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The recession may have made a difference in the sense that people are being more realistic about what they can afford , ’ said the magazine 's associate editor Fenella Willis . |
| 2 | It was not , perhaps , as improbable as it sounds that McCarthy should have made a target of the Army . |
| 3 | One of the guards must have made a substitution . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But what annoyed us most is Downey could have made a phone call to us . |
| 5 | If he 'd left it Mrs Blakey would have made a fuss , she 'd have wanted to take his temperature , she 'd have asked questions he could n't answer . |
| 6 | Threat to insurers AS THE £1.1bn takeover bid by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurer , gets underway for the Pearl Group , a new survey suggests that perhaps the Australians should have made a bid for a building society . |
| 7 | All the parties are in close and fairly intimate contact and there is no point in gratuitously annoying and antagonizing people — especially since the oracles may have made a mistake . |
| 8 | Now community charge may have made a difference but what , what did government do about that to s in a sense ironically to go against one of their one of the , one of the most basic principles of bringing it in ? |
| 9 | A European director might have made a film explicitly depicting and condemning the chain-gang system and he almost certainly would have suggested that the system was a metaphor for life itself , but Hollywood had made a more accessible and universally popular film by showing an innocent man hounded by a combination of events and social forces of which the chain-gang was the most obviously dramatic . |
| 10 | She had enclosed patterns and detailed instructions , and while she hoped , for the sake of appearance at the wedding , that the children 's clothes would be properly cut and fitted , she also hoped that between them Cynthia and her dressmaker would have made a pig 's ear of the business . |
| 11 | It is often the case that the plaintiff will have made a complaint or comment which may serve to corroborate their version of the accident later . |
| 12 | Jacques Tati should have made a film here . |
| 13 | The original owner must have made a representation ( by statement or conduct ) that the seller was entitled to sell the goods . |
| 14 | Scientists may have made a breakthrough in the treatment of breast cancer using drugs first developed in the nineteen sixties . |
| 15 | The Government should have made a statement on the way in which the police national computer operates ; it should not have been necessary for me or the National Council for Civil Liberties to prise information from them . |
| 16 | Sheridan might have made a difference given the chance — but then we 'll never know quite what sent the skilful midfielder packing to Sheffield Wednesday after hardly a sniff of the City Ground . |
| 17 | Andropulos may have made a mistake , Admiral , in telling you that he was scared that his spare fuel tank might blow up . |
| 18 | A solicitor for the Robinson family said that the staff at the hospital should have made a call to the Southern General . |
| 19 | The children might have made a collection of shiny things or things made of metal , and be invited to think of things that they use at home which are shiny or made of metal . |
| 20 | Gin had been the great popular comfort of Paradise Street in her childhood , gin and tea , so she took it as someone from another background might have made a dish of bread and milk . |
| 21 | If you have not been adequately consulted , and a tribunal is satisfied that consultation could have made a difference to the redundancy decision , there is a good chance that you will succeed in an unfair dismissal claim and be entitled to compensation . |
| 22 | The objections to assessing whether the hearing would have made a difference are not confined to those expressed by Megarry J. A superior court in the context of review is not in a good position to calculate whether a hearing would have made a difference , and to do so could well leave the individual with the feeling that he has not been afforded any opportunity of controverting the public body 's view . |
| 23 | The objections to assessing whether the hearing would have made a difference are not confined to those expressed by Megarry J. A superior court in the context of review is not in a good position to calculate whether a hearing would have made a difference , and to do so could well leave the individual with the feeling that he has not been afforded any opportunity of controverting the public body 's view . |
| 24 | Where review is based upon procedural grounds the applicability of such procedural protection should not be placed in jeopardy by the court second guessing whether a hearing would have made a difference . |
| 25 | Mr Prescott said Transport Secretary John MacGregor could have made a Commons statement today but claimed Mr MacGregor ‘ was not prepared to cancel his engagements in Scotland ’ . |
| 26 | Anyone selling aluminium step ladders outside the Belfry could have made a fortune because after the first few minutes of the match , newcomers realised they could n't see the action on a flat course , unsympathetic to any onlooker less than six feet in height . |
| 27 | At the start of the second half United tried a charge … a goal would have made a game of it … skipper Andy Melville came close with a header but you had the feeling that Villa were always in control … |
| 28 | The place has all the appropriate externals , chimneys choked with ivy , windows with jasmine , worm-eaten shutters , mossy thatch , all of which ‘ under the quiet light of a sky marbled with high clouds would have made a sort of picture which we have all passed over as a ‘ charming bit ’ , touching other sensibilities than those which are stirred by the depression of the agricultural interest , with the sad lack of farming capital , as seen constantly in the newspapers of that time ’ . |
| 29 | Edward , shying away from disagreeable exposures , supposed that mother must have made a mistake . |
| 30 | Five miles would have made a difference . |