Example sentences of "it would [verb] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following statement is the conclusion of a report drawn up for the debenture holders of the Bishop 's Castle Railway by Mr. Fraser , now the auditor of the Cambrian , in which he shows that it would pay to make this line independently of any other . |
| 2 | Quite possibly , it would have made little difference . |
| 3 | If he allowed them to know he understood German , it would have made little difference . |
| 4 | It would have made little difference , however . |
| 5 | Some Slovenian bankers pointed out that it would have made better sense to have carried out a ‘ consolidation ’ , which would have preserved more of the assets of the firm than the policy of attacking it from all sides ( Politika , 1 October 1987 ) . |
| 6 | It would have made good drama to pit Bernard 's projection of mass production against Laura 's fears that this would threaten to destroy the ethnic and cottage industry appeal upon which the business was based . |
| 7 | I do n't know though , it would have made great television . |
| 8 | ‘ No , not that it would have made much sense if they had — I 'm not a particular ace when it comes to car engines . ’ |
| 9 | But I do n't think we had it or that it would have made any difference if we had . ’ |
| 10 | If she 'd been forty , I doubt if it would have made any difference — to either of us . ’ |
| 11 | Not that it would have made any difference because I mean , people used to go into shops on that side , which never came up our way and the same with us , coming up there and not going that way is n't it . |
| 12 | Explain if it would have made any difference if the garage owner had said he would sell the car for £1,000 although no price was displayed . |
| 13 | King did not jump , not that it would have made any difference if he had . |
| 14 | Sometimes over the past year she had wondered whether if Fernando had mentioned marriage it would have made any difference . |
| 15 | A statute passed to remedy what is perceived by Parliament to be a defect in the existing law may in actual operation turn out to have injurious consequences that Parliament did not anticipate at the time the statute was passed ; if it had , it would have made some provision in the Act in order to prevent them . |
| 16 | One possibility is that the DGSE somehow hoped that by buying the dinghy in London blame for the operation would be placed on MI6 , although in this case it would have made more sense to buy one made in Britain . |
| 17 | Knowing Carol , of course , it would have made more sense to ask if I 'd come out of things in one piece — the piece in question being in the genitalia region . |
| 18 | The GPO in Leeds rang to say it would have to make special arrangements to cope with the volume , and delivered bulging sacks direct to the production team . |
| 19 | Yet it would seem to make perfect sense for higher qualified paramedics to be more highly paid , provided there was an acceptance that ambulance workers with lower skill levels would receive less . |
| 20 | Early this year the Ministry of Health and Welfare ( MHW ) announced that it would begin making regular payments to haemophiliacs infected with HIV . |
| 21 | This called into question the government 's chances of winning a two-thirds majority , which it would need to make constitutional changes , and which every government had achieved hitherto , except in the 1969 elections . |