Example sentences of "[modal v] make [adj] difference " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most areas , the votes of mentally handicapped people may make little difference but in very marginal constituencies , such as Brecon and Radnor , where there are approximately 250 people with a severe mental handicap and where the majority was only 56 at the last election , the voting patterns of even small populations could have a crucial effect . |
| 2 | As for the class of goods , it should make little difference here , since the businessman should be better able than the private party to assess them . |
| 3 | However , it is difficult to see why SPZs should make any difference . |
| 4 | Wainfleet carried on : ‘ I 've apologized — I 'll even apologize to Linley if it 'll make any difference — but what more can I do ? ’ |
| 5 | I think the only drawback in that was , it 's been discuss , that , if you are dealing with money here you are expected to be , but I ca n't see that 'll make any difference because we 're not tied to National cost at the bazaar are we ? |
| 6 | I ca n't worry my husband because he 's not well and I do n't want him to think I 'd make any difference . |
| 7 | Nothing anyone did could make any difference in the end . |
| 8 | The weaker way is to say simply that although there is a radical and obvious difference between the two hypotheses , it is not one which could make any difference to you , and so that you can be exempted from paying any attention to it . |
| 9 | Not that it would make much difference in this bloody place . |
| 10 | Not that it would make much difference if Lee got hold of them . |
| 11 | To tell the truth I 'm not sure it would make much difference . |
| 12 | I did not know whether having a contract would make much difference to the service delivered or to relationships between social workers and general practitioners . |
| 13 | erm We park appallingly carelessly , some of us do it intentionally very often , some of us do it innocently or probably ignorantly , and perhaps to be fined on the spot would be a way of saving an awful lot of paperwork , an awful lot of time , and perhaps reminding people that they should n't be doing these things although I 'm always slightly worried , this is in a sense another problem , I 'm slightly worried by , by the inequity that six pounds or whatever it is will mean a lot to one person and hardly anything at all to another , and you do see some cars mis-parking again and again , and I 'm not sure that erm the instant penalty would make much difference there . |
| 14 | Chris Patten is among the sceptics : ‘ Even if it ( investment ) were to be successful and encourage a 40 or 50 per cent increase in the use of rail , it would make damn-all difference to the growth in road traffic — it would just take a few percentage points off the top . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It would make little difference what time of day it was . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One more would make little difference to him and Seb had first-hand experience of the man 's anger . |
| 20 | Officials gloomily realised that the inadequate billeting arrangements devised by Whitehall had discredited the scheme , and a propaganda campaign would make little difference . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | What he did n't know , could n't know , was that nothing he could now do would make any difference . |
| 23 | Mariana did n't look up so the smile Trent gave her was a waste of time and he could n't think of anything else to say , or nothing that would make any difference . |
| 24 | But I ca n't see in the long run that it would make any difference to what we 've been talking about , seeing who Maggie is . |
| 25 | as if the time would make any difference to a woman whose only son had just been killed . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't think it would make any difference . ’ |
| 27 | none that would make any difference at this stage for selling it . |
| 28 | I ca n't believe you genuinely think that … that my little designs in St Lucia would make any difference to the hundreds of pattern designs used by Sarah Chester Fabrics … ’ |
| 29 | I do n't think it would make any difference . |
| 30 | I never felt that would make any difference you know . |