Example sentences of "it [modal v] make [det] [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 | As for the class of goods , it should make little difference here , since the businessman should be better able than the private party to assess them . |
| 5 | It should make some effort to understand . |
| 6 | It must make some chord fingerings awkward , though … |
| 7 | Broadcasters themselves were also aware that it was easy to overdo the attention given to politicians and political news ; it might make some politicians happy , but not the audience . |
| 8 | towards crime prevention on the other hand it might make some people realise that if they 're no longer a scheme then they do n't get the er the |
| 9 | Perhaps it might make more sense to restrict people to a fixed number of pets . |
| 10 | Wainfleet carried on : ‘ I 've apologized — I 'll even apologize to Linley if it 'll make any difference — but what more can I do ? ’ |
| 11 | The lord president tried to attract support by embarking on a reform of the council , particularly by a reduction in its fees ; but it could make little progress against the obstructionism of Secretary Ingram , who had the backing at court of the lord treasurer , Lionel Cranfield ( later Earl of Middlesex , q.v . ) . |
| 12 | Of the Unionist press , only the Daily Telegraph supported the coalition , and it could make little head against such a tide . |
| 13 | Cos if you did n't have that it 'd make this room more viable in as much as erm , the point of view of doing doing catering and , functions and all the rest of it . |
| 14 | ‘ If you grew something like carrots it 'd make some sense . |
| 15 | Chris Patten is among the sceptics : ‘ Even if it ( investment ) were to be successful and encourage a 40 or 50 per cent increase in the use of rail , it would make damn-all difference to the growth in road traffic — it would just take a few percentage points off the top . ’ |
| 16 | In practice one suspects that it would make little sense to the participants in any of these cases to ask who is really being supported : . |
| 17 | If my toothache were an event analogous to , but entirely separated from the neurophysiological process that accompanies it , it would make little sense going to a dentist in search of relief . |
| 18 | It would make little sense in this context to increase the categories of sexual assault simply to maintain gender specificity . |
| 19 | One view holds it might be worth preserving only information derived from the telecommunications record , but that it would make little sense to keep it all . |
| 20 | It would make little difference what time of day it was . |
| 21 | Not that it would make much difference in this bloody place . |
| 22 | Not that it would make much difference if Lee got hold of them . |
| 23 | To tell the truth I 'm not sure it would make much difference . |
| 24 | Some bigwig fuck off cunt erm wanker judge in London has decided it would make less paperwork . |
| 25 | Another point is that it would make most bit image files far longer than necessary . |
| 26 | It would make some sense for friends of the Ford camp to push the Jaguar shares upwards simply to make a link with GM more difficult . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Mrs Thatcher insisted it would make more sense to wait and see how it worked out in practice before preparing moves to the more controversial second and third stages of EMU — including a central bank and a single currency . |
| 29 | If so , it would make more sense and cost less in subsidy to build that new winner within Airbus . |
| 30 | In that case , it would make more sense to switch the other two lectures so that shields and banners followed something warlike . |