Example sentences of "would have make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inclusion of any of these studies would have made little difference to our conclusions about mortality reduction . |
| 2 | Quite possibly , it would have made little difference . |
| 3 | If he allowed them to know he understood German , it would have made little difference . |
| 4 | It would have made little difference , however . |
| 5 | As a magazine article , any one of these chapters would have made good reading . |
| 6 | Dunes , palm trees , mud-brick villages , children and animals would have made good picture postcards , but , for all its beauty , the desert was terrifying . |
| 7 | It would have made good drama to pit Bernard 's projection of mass production against Laura 's fears that this would threaten to destroy the ethnic and cottage industry appeal upon which the business was based . |
| 8 | Ironically their votes would have made sure Lord Mayor Reg Empey did not make the trip , but as it was the proposal was defeated anyway by votes to 15 . |
| 9 | Some Slovenian bankers pointed out that it would have made better sense to have carried out a ‘ consolidation ’ , which would have preserved more of the assets of the firm than the policy of attacking it from all sides ( Politika , 1 October 1987 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ No , not that it would have made much sense if they had — I 'm not a particular ace when it comes to car engines . ’ |
| 11 | Neither Long not Chamberlain would have made great changes in the party , and the election of either would not have seemed to signify a great change . |
| 12 | I do n't know though , it would have made great television . |
| 13 | But it hit me one day , he did n't care or he would have made that effort to come and see me and he did n't . |
| 14 | Had the two been at their prime in the same era Scotland 's midfield would have made Dirty Harry look like a wimp . |
| 15 | It was very possibly from that actual spring that Mary would have made daily journeys to fetch water . |
| 16 | Kids would have made more mess . |
| 17 | One possibility is that the DGSE somehow hoped that by buying the dinghy in London blame for the operation would be placed on MI6 , although in this case it would have made more sense to buy one made in Britain . |
| 18 | But I think if we 'd made ‘ Rumours ’ then ‘ Mirage ’ then ‘ Tango ’ and then ‘ Tusk ’ it probably would have made more sense from the listeners ' point of view . |
| 19 | One of the arguments of the present paper is that the reforms would have made more sense and been more appropriate for our purposes had we successfully translated and adapted the lessons learned from the North American experience with case management , focused on the real messages of the PSSRU experiments , and waited until the RDP case management evaluation was complete ( Cooney , 1992 ) before contemplating the introduction of the reforms . |
| 20 | Surely , with your background , something in the hotel line would have made more sense ? ’ |
| 21 | Knowing Carol , of course , it would have made more sense to ask if I 'd come out of things in one piece — the piece in question being in the genitalia region . |
| 22 | Now do you think that the campaign th the th , the campaigns against the use in cosmetic testing had anything to do with the changes that were brought in , or do you think advances and responsible er science would have , would have made those changes anyway ? |
| 23 | Carmen would have made short work of Michael too . |
| 24 | You would have made short work of the lock if you were inclined that way . ’ |
| 25 | No , I mean two years ago I think we would have made wrong predictions about what 's happening now . |
| 26 | Nonni should have answered , of course , that they stayed cleaner longer , which would have made some kind of sense to my aunts . |
| 27 | A statute passed to remedy what is perceived by Parliament to be a defect in the existing law may in actual operation turn out to have injurious consequences that Parliament did not anticipate at the time the statute was passed ; if it had , it would have made some provision in the Act in order to prevent them . |
| 28 | It was shortly before the time Luke usually arrived on Fridays , and up until today she would have made some excuse to Florian , but reviviscent pride demanded a gesture . |
| 29 | This punctuation would have made some difference to the reader 's processing of the sentence ; [ 14 ] in particular would have made the " click " seem a matter of importance and surprise in its own right , dividing the reader 's attention between the two events , instead of making him see them as integral parts of a whole . |
| 30 | The instrument would have made several incisions at the same time , having a set of twelve razor-sharp curved blades that are retracted below the slotted surface of the base and , when in place on the skin , fired by a trigger-release mechanism . |