Example sentences of "would make [adj] difference " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Not that it would make much difference in this bloody place .
3 Not that it would make much difference if Lee got hold of them .
4 To tell the truth I 'm not sure it would make much difference .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 . ’
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 It would make little difference what time of day it was .
11 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 .
12 One more would make little difference to him and Seb had first-hand experience of the man 's anger .
13 Officials gloomily realised that the inadequate billeting arrangements devised by Whitehall had discredited the scheme , and a propaganda campaign would make little difference .
14 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 .
15 What he did n't know , could n't know , was that nothing he could now do would make any difference .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 as if the time would make any difference to a woman whose only son had just been killed .
19 ‘ Do n't think it would make any difference . ’
20 none that would make any difference at this stage for selling it .
21 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 … ’
22 I do n't think it would make any difference .
23 I never felt that would make any difference you know .
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