Example sentences of "because it [modal v] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 2 | No ordinary pink this , either , but a pink of a hallucinogenic vividness — Schiaparelli pink , you might say , although you probably would n't because it would make you extremely unpopular . |
| 3 | Her best coat would perhaps have been better because it would make her look as though she had n't let herself go , but on the other hand her frightful old lumber jacket would have suggested , what was true enough , that she was worried enough not to care . |
| 4 | Whatever he backed or took over — insecure but deserving commercial ventures , a struggling publishing firm , an inefficient factory which he refused to modernize because it would make some workers redundant-always miraculously turned the corner and became financially successful . |
| 5 | Because it would make the table bend . |
| 6 | If judges were seen to pick and choose among legislation , enforcing only those statutes they approved , this would defeat the pragmatist 's goal because it would make things not better but much worse . |
| 7 | It has been argued by Mancur Olson ( 1965 ) that there is often no incentive to go to the expense and trouble of joining a group , especially when the group is large , because it may make no difference to that particular individual . |
| 8 | The Scheme is funded for eighteen months only and this means that the numbers will start to drop in October 1993 and that is the only good thing about this Scheme , because it 'll make it easier for the next Labour Government to abolish it . |
| 9 | you do n't fill your cup right up with it because it 'll make it too watery in your cup , cos them cappuccinos come very little |
| 10 | It is also important that you try and evaluate the dramatic experience of these different forms of presentation — this is worthwhile , because it will make you think about the different ways in which an actor can work and the various ways in which his skills are used . |
| 11 | From Dixons , we will hear that the company should retain its independence because its current trading woes are a product of a consumer squeeze over which it has no control and because it will make lots of money when times get better and we have more spare cash with which to buy new tellies , video recorders , fridges etc . |
| 12 | Kindly note these things are ambidextrous , they do n't care which way round they go , but I 'd recommend you organise it so the pad is actually resting on the cover , not on the rest of the paper in the binder , because it will make it a bit sturdier to use . |