Example sentences of "made [adj] difference " in BNC.
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| 1 | InterCity 's dedicated Victoria-Gatwick Express push-pull service launched in 1984 made little difference to domestic services , employing ex-LMR Mark 2f coaches formed into trailer sets with a 1959-type 2-HAP driving trailer converted to a driving van at one end , and a Class 73 locomotive at the other . |
| 2 | The more mischievous may suggest that , as an exercise in the once-discredited art of nationalisation , it was a huge success ; but as an attempt to apply market forces to public services it made little difference . |
| 3 | It made little difference . |
| 4 | It made little difference if a dreadful rash despoiled both little faces . |
| 5 | Variations in standards of treatment and comfort made little difference relative to the permanence of this one condition . |
| 6 | Recently books have been written querying the efficiency and use of Bomber Command aircraft in the night bombing of Germany , and asking whether it did help in the final defeat or whether in fact it made little difference . |
| 7 | For illiterate and landless serfs and peasants the language of their landlord made little difference to their lives . |
| 8 | After all , it made little difference : he would persuade Jean-Paul , Jean-Paul would persuade Louise ; the route was more circuitous , that was all . |
| 9 | Garrick Morgan and Warwick Waugh were well matched by the Monmouthshire pair of Tony Rees and Mike Voyle yesterday , and the experienced Rod McCall made little difference when he came on to replace Morgan . |
| 10 | WOBBLER : Bruce Grobbelaar 's return made little difference to Liverpool 's leaking defence . |
| 11 | As far as fans were concerned , the location made little difference . |
| 12 | The ‘ No Smoking ’ and seatbelt signs were on , although this made little difference to Myeloski who had clamped himself into his seat as soon as he had boarded the aircraft . |
| 13 | We tried taking out the pith from behind the bud , and we tried leaving it in — it made little difference . |
| 14 | To William Joyce , the news made little difference . |
| 15 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 16 | Table 4.2 , which illustrates this , also shows that the state of the local labour market made little difference to the proportion regarding their first jobs as " stop-gap " . |
| 17 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 18 | As far as the administration of relief was concerned , this made little difference ; the public assistance committees of the local authorities could be regarded as broadly the guardians under another name . |
| 19 | Adjustment of the relative risks for smoking made little difference . |
| 20 | Adjustment for risk factors made little difference to the rates except when the subset of deaths due to immaturity was adjusted for birth weight . |
| 21 | Adjustment for risk factors made little difference to the mortality rates except when birth weight was included in the adjustment for the deaths due to immaturity . |
| 22 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 23 | Our arrival last year made little difference . |
| 24 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
| 25 | Just as the Revolution in Russia made little difference , so has the departure of imperial rule from most Afro-Asian countries . |
| 26 | The formal elimination of colour bars made little difference . |
| 27 | The one factor which might have altered this made little difference . |
| 28 | It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both . |
| 29 | Strategically , the Guadalajara débâcle made little difference to either side . |
| 30 | For most couples this made little difference in terms of tax actually paid , but , as feminists were quick to point out , it treated the wife as a dependant and not a separate entity . |