Example sentences of "[modal v] make more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where land is already spoilt , it may make more sense to find appropriate uses for it than to clean it up . |
| 2 | Hence it may make more sense for soldiers to be in the public sector than street-sweepers . |
| 3 | However , if this is north facing it may make more sense to move it to a sunnier position . |
| 4 | The professional may make more effort , knowing that the client is paying good money for his or her services , in a society that values things that are paid for and tends to devalue those that are not . |
| 5 | During the periods of active regional policy , emigration from development areas declines and there is also the possibility that during such periods firms may make more people redundant , in the knowledge that the chances of finding employment are greater . |
| 6 | I hope they will get used to that because it is indispensable that some people should make more money . |
| 7 | I think you should make more effort to find out about places like this , and I think the schools should make an effort to tell you . |
| 8 | According to the " psycholinguistic guessing game " view of reading the good readers should make more use of the context than the poor readers , and in comparison with the neutral context they should perhaps show greater facilitation effects from congruous context and greater interference from the incongruous context . |
| 9 | Perhaps it might make more sense to restrict people to a fixed number of pets . |
| 10 | With runways congested , a jumbo-jumbo might make more sense than a small jet . |
| 11 | The Exercises were ill-received , and Gassendi seems to have decided that he might make more headway against the Aristotelians by systematically presenting an alternative point of view , rather than by direct argument against them . |
| 12 | He acknowledged that ‘ having him loose does raise the potential that he might make more mischief , take to the hills and be very hard to find ’ . |
| 13 | While we all deplore the sale of looted antiquities , it has been suggested recently that some ‘ source ’ nations , those rich in archaeological sites , might make more objects or recent archaeological finds available on loan to museums abroad . |
| 14 | You might make more profit with your proposal , but the security is less . ’ |
| 15 | Otherwise defender Darren Wassall may begin to wonder if he might make more money by doing something else at Wembley tomorrow . |
| 16 | Nobody could deny Mr Gummer this small triumph , but he might make more friends if he did n't always insist on making such a meal of it . |
| 17 | staff-student liaison committees might make more use of the findings of questionnaires to enhance their effectiveness . |
| 18 | That 'd make more sense would n't it ? |
| 19 | they 'd make more noise would n't they ? |
| 20 | Young people with little education but the right connections or boldness could make more money selling goods like watermelons on the street than they could hope to earn after graduation . |
| 21 | Thomson , again , could make more money by leasing the presses to another newspaper — in this case the News of the World . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Andy had discovered windsurfing and that he could make more money in a day teaching it than he could in a week in his other job . |
| 23 | It had to go because he could make more money having erm the three caravans on the site that this occupying . |
| 24 | Labour is equally ludicrous : it is committed to banning ‘ trees and shrubs that could make more women feel vulnerable to attack ’ . |
| 25 | The gradual replacement on ocean routes of sail by steam increased the volume of traffic faster than the number of ships ; steamships could make more journeys in the same time . |
| 26 | He traced its origin to his former position in the trade union movement ( hinting that he had an agreement to go back to the TUC where he could make more trouble for any government if they pressed him hard ) . |
| 27 | To compensate , you could make more use of wall space with pictures , mirrors or decorative wall plates . |
| 28 | A gaze into a crystal ball showed that the Europeans would out-drive the Americans , would make more greens in regulation but were prone to be wild off the tee . |
| 29 | I 'm saying that in my experience there is too much argument and not enough discussion in processes of government generally , and I believe we would make more progress by a more discursive approach . |
| 30 | It might reasonably be expected that a child placed in a special class would make more progress after the placement than during a comparable time period before the placement . |