Example sentences of "[pron] would make [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be most grateful if you would make some inquiries to find out what is preventing DGXI from responding courteously to our invitations ? |
| 2 | Trent held him under the cold water , hoping he would make some effort to support himself . |
| 3 | That he would make some attempt to coax her ? |
| 4 | It would make one regret to lose it and yet I shall think nothing but that loss wanting to complete my happiness . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It would make good sense to increase that cadre of coaches to five . |
| 7 | It would make more sense to put some of the money to improving the surfaces of the existing roads , which again compare very unfavourably with our European neighbours . |
| 8 | Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired . |
| 9 | Mrs Thatcher insisted it would make more sense to wait and see how it worked out in practice before preparing moves to the more controversial second and third stages of EMU — including a central bank and a single currency . |
| 10 | After all , these guys are no part of my battle , most of them do n't know me , and they 've turned out in numbers only because Rufus said they had to defend their territory — but I decide this ai n't the time for that , and it would make more sense to invite these gift-horses in for coffee and what 's left of the whisky . |
| 11 | It would make more sense to build the ships in this country and use those millions to subsidise the industry . |
| 12 | In which case it would make more sense to elect proven adulterers instead of discouraging them from public life . |
| 13 | In that case , it would make more sense to switch the other two lectures so that shields and banners followed something warlike . |