Example sentences of "which could make " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps I was showing too many teeth which could make me appear roguish and untrustworthy .
2 With more than 20 years of rallying behind him , Short could give Sainz , or more importantly his co-driver Luis Moya , extra information which could make all the difference between winning , losing , or , even worse , crashing .
3 The militants are split between degrees of intransigence , which could make them vulnerable at the polls .
4 Hitler 's policy was clever : to keep Romania and Hungary in competition with each other to see which could make the greater territorial gains .
5 He possessed a dominating grace which could make any adversary subject to his will .
6 Every document has its contribution to make to research , but there may be other documents not used which could make their contribution too .
7 A recent auction sale brought to my mind the fascinating subject of tally sticks , which could make a wonderfully interesting and historically interesting collection .
8 THIS is the week which could make or break John Major 's Government and the British economy .
9 From this point of view , which could make no place for miracles understood as cases of divine , supernatural interference with the laws of nature , reports of alleged miracles could only be regarded as evidence of credulity and ignorance on the part of those who originated and passed on the stories .
10 One might expect it to lead only to a rather vague pantheism which could make no real place either for religious institutions or for specific doctrines and formulations .
11 This means they will not stick to each other , which could make the composite useful as a high-definition toner for colour photocopying machines .
12 But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor .
13 Such authority could not be shared with , nor alienated to anyone ; the notion was already fully developed under Philip the Fair by 1294 : ‘ the king of France is subject to no one ’ , wrote Guillaume de Nogaret , expressing the doctrine which could make vassals subjects and was absolute .
14 Only one small criticism and that is it lacks an index and page numbers which could make reference difficult .
15 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 .
16 If the difference suggested is one which could make no difference to us , then it is empty and does not exist .
17 Organizations are arenas within which some things will tend to hang together and be adopted by power-players as a bundle , while other forms of combination may be far less likely to occur as a coherent package , perhaps because they are less coherent or because the alliance which could make them so lacks a position in the field of power to be able to constitute the necessity of its choices .
18 Even where practices may not differ over time , or place , there may be an inconsistency about them or a lack of knowledge about them , or a long-standing dispute about them , which could make it equally difficult to argue that following or not following a practice was or was not constitutional or legitimate .
19 PC Tools 8 is crammed with quality features , some of which could make MS-DOS go green with envy
20 After his long , slow climb Stoneley had found himself to be a novice at office in-fighting , some examples of which could make the brutal intentions of a common criminal seem almost harmless .
21 Also , the height of the head-dress proportionately lowered the position of the face which could make the drawing imbalanced and reduce the figure , thus losing the detail .
22 Will the right Hon. Gentleman exempt Wales from the opting-out schemes which could make those plans meaningless ?
23 He also had unusually heavy , drooping eyelids which could make him look comic or sinister , benevolent or supercilious .
24 She was already regretting her hasty words , which could make Doreen look upon her as a rival , when of course such a thought was ridiculous .
25 The column reportedly reveals that Mirror chief executive David Montgomery and other senior staff hold options to buy shares in the newspaper group which could make them hundreds of thousands of pounds ' worth of profits .
26 Lurgan are a little concerned about their lack of bowling depth , which could make things tough in the knock-out tournaments .
27 Chinese officials expressed anger at his reform package and , according to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 5 , threatened retaliation which could make Hong Kong virtually ungovernable in the five remaining years of British rule .
28 It was an easy way out , but one which could make for a far more enjoyable session .
29 As a member of one of the two departments into which the direction politique of the foreign ministry was then divided , he found that he and his colleagues spent much of their time playing draughts and that there was considerable rivalry between the two as to which could make the better " five o'clock tea " .
30 It was broadly the premise of those movements that science and technology were evil , totalitarian and devoid of the attributes which could make them amenable to the " human spirit " .
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