Example sentences of "make the difference " in BNC.

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1 This made the differences found more meaningful .
2 It is possible to imagine that for some people such consolation might make it easier to reconcile the two , and to wonder what it was that made the difference in Fraser 's case .
3 MARCO GABBIADINI , Sunderland 's England Under-21 forward , eloquently provided the dash and style that made the difference between these two sides , and it was his sharply taken goal that won this Littlewoods Cup replay .
4 This kind of specialist service has , solicitor James Whelan believes , made the difference between success and failure for himself and his wife in finding an ideal base in Devon to come back to from Dubai , where they lived since 1985 .
5 The end of the Cold War made the difference .
6 Playing these holes well made the difference .
7 Maybe it made the difference between having lunch or going hungry .
8 ‘ And is the ‘ ’ anything' ’ what made the difference ? ’
9 So what made the difference ?
10 A community trauma made the difference : a fire on 6 August 1613 , from which comes the title of the book .
11 Obviously it was n't the money that made the difference : what was important was the fact that the wealth opened up all sorts of possibilities to the lucky children that simply were not available to adopted children of poorer parents .
12 He 's been a bit disappointing and they made the difference . ’
13 As both schools had a similar catchment area , he postulated that it was the schools themselves that made the difference between their pupils ' behaviour .
14 From this time onward the greater part of the effort is concentrated on the critical event that made the difference between a routine flight and a catastrophe .
15 Two phone bidders made the difference as they slowly and deliberately raised the bidding , the victor ( an anonymous buyer ) paying $7 million ( £3.9 million ) for it .
16 There is no doubt that the strong union organisation in the factory , which forced the union to back them , made the difference in saving the jobs .
17 The thought or feeling tipped the balance , made the difference .
18 What made the difference , I wonder ?
19 But what really made the difference was that I got engaged to a girl called Jane Wilde , whom I had met about the time I was diagnosed with ALS .
20 Again , we found no search where this made the difference between success and total failure , nor is there any evidence that users were better satisfied .
21 While they were an exceptionally well-balanced side , it was their superior bowling that stood out and made the difference between them and England .
22 CATHERINE Was that what made the difference ?
23 Except he had lived with them-the wild free ones in the mountains and the wild caught ones up at San Carlos-about half his life and that made the difference .
24 Instead , it was Ireland batsman Charlie McCrum who made the difference , scoring and also conceding just runs in his overs , picking up one wicket along the way .
25 ‘ To this day he 's convinced it made the difference between winning and losing . ’
26 Snodin provided an authority in central midfield that has been lacking since the departure of Peter Reid and Rideout said : ‘ Ian Snodin made the difference with a little bit of class .
27 What made the difference ?
28 and that made the difference I think , that probably made the difference
29 A simple example will make the differences plain : suppose a testator wanted to arrange for the payment of a sum of money to a certain person .
30 Nor could Chamberlain ever show how a preference within the low tariffs , which were the most that Britain would conceivably tolerate upon her food or raw materials , could make the difference , as he constantly reiterated , between Imperial consolidation and Imperial dissolution .
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