Example sentences of "it would make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To make up for a late start , the government this year announced it would make available £125 million of grants to push industry into the robot age .
2 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 . ’
3 He envisaged this as a well-balanced wheel driven by a lead weight suspended from its axle so that it would make one revolution between sunrise and sunset .
4 It would make one regret to lose it and yet I shall think nothing but that loss wanting to complete my happiness .
5 It would make better sense if the money which new contractors raised to sustain their bids were to go , as the Campaign for Quality Television ( CQT ) urges , into programme-making .
6 However , when teacher appraisal is a firm part of educational reform , it would make better sense if certain aspects of management in initial teacher education could consciously be brought together with the assessment of teacher capacity .
7 If the Loyalists are so determined to live under British rule , it would make economic sense for them to be assisted to move to the mainland .
8 The statement comes just two months after the group predicted it would make pre-tax profits of £867,000 , slightly less than the previous year .
9 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 : .
10 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 .
11 It would make little sense in this context to increase the categories of sexual assault simply to maintain gender specificity .
12 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 .
13 It would make little difference what time of day it was .
14 A moment 's reflection will show that it would make private members more independent .
15 It would make good sense to increase that cadre of coaches to five .
16 Not that it would make much difference in this bloody place .
17 Not that it would make much difference if Lee got hold of them .
18 To tell the truth I 'm not sure it would make much difference .
19 Some bigwig fuck off cunt erm wanker judge in London has decided it would make less paperwork .
20 Another point is that it would make most bit image files far longer than necessary .
21 And that was one of the justifications of bringing it in , that it would raise a sense of er it would raise erm the actual percentage of people voting in elections and it would make local issues er more pertinent at local elections .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Acer Inc , Taipei , Taiwan says it is considering the possibility of cooperation with Nintendo Co Ltd in the electronic games industry and plans to submit a proposal to the Japanese company soon ; Acer denied a report that it would make electronic games on behalf of Nintendo .
25 Obviously , if all security interests were possessory it would make secured borrowing virtually impossible as a debtor would be deprived of the ability to use the assets subject to the security in the course of business ( but English law has for long recognised non-possessory security interests ) .
26 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 .
27 If so , it would make more sense and cost less in subsidy to build that new winner within Airbus .
28 In that case , it would make more sense to switch the other two lectures so that shields and banners followed something warlike .
29 Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired .
30 It would make more sense to build the ships in this country and use those millions to subsidise the industry .
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