Example sentences of "would make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a great deal of reluctance in the Industry to produce a version of DOS which is not ‘ backwards-compatible ’ as this would make existing software obsolete at a stroke and users would be reluctant to make such a drastic ( and expensive ) move . |
| 2 | To a Yek accomplished in the ways of the court the whole scheme would make perfect sense however . |
| 3 | Among other devices , the minority would separate from the majority at the annual election of the Magistrates and Councillors , and each faction would make separate elections . |
| 4 | Indeed , while some laptop devices had emerged such as the Cornucopia and the Dynabook , it seemed unlikely that handheld CD-ROM technology of any kind would make much impact in world markets for some years . |
| 5 | Not that it would make much difference in this bloody place . |
| 6 | Not that it would make much difference if Lee got hold of them . |
| 7 | To tell the truth I 'm not sure it would make much difference . |
| 8 | I did not know whether having a contract would make much difference to the service delivered or to relationships between social workers and general practitioners . |
| 9 | erm We park appallingly carelessly , some of us do it intentionally very often , some of us do it innocently or probably ignorantly , and perhaps to be fined on the spot would be a way of saving an awful lot of paperwork , an awful lot of time , and perhaps reminding people that they should n't be doing these things although I 'm always slightly worried , this is in a sense another problem , I 'm slightly worried by , by the inequity that six pounds or whatever it is will mean a lot to one person and hardly anything at all to another , and you do see some cars mis-parking again and again , and I 'm not sure that erm the instant penalty would make much difference there . |
| 10 | There are some situations where the relationship between parent and daughter would make intimate care impossible to give , for example where a daughter had been abused by her father as a child . |
| 11 | Labour argued that its " fair rates " scheme would make average households better off . |
| 12 | She knew that whatever Margaret got she would make sure Maura got it back one hundredfold . |
| 13 | The charter would make sure care is appropriate to the patient . |
| 14 | The same method using netting would make effective protection for a bed of a dozen or more high-yielding strawberry plants . |
| 15 | Many church leaders have been speaking out in favour of changes that would make African societies more participatory . |
| 16 | This increased specificity , in conjunction with smaller pulse generators and non-thoracotomy lead systems , would make prospective evaluation of prophylactic ICD therapy in high-risk post-infarction patients a realistic and practicable proposition . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Over the next three years the UK would make available £26,500,000 in drug-related aid to developing countries , with £4,500,000 earmarked in 1990 for Colombia . |
| 19 | There are several other wedding anniversaries that would make successful flower pictures — for instance , for the bronze anniversary it would be very interesting to find a coppery frame and some flowers to match . |
| 20 | For example , you could create the design for a simple piece of embroidery using small sprays of pressed flowers , or make an initial design from pressed flowers that could be transferred on to squared paper and used to embroider a handkerchief Both of these ideas would make marvellous presents , and you could perhaps place the finished embroidery in a tissue-lined box that has been decorated with pressed flowers or ribbons . |
| 21 | Likewise , Charlie 's old school is not an entity that has the property of old-school-ness ; this is not a property of which English speakers would make frequent use , but it might be possible employ it in cases where something had the characteristic of " being a school in an old way " — perhaps with extensive use of wax tablet and stylus , and possibly a slave or two for the menial work . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Pray that leaders would make strong relationships with their team , and that by the love they have for one another and the joy experienced , others would come to know God . |
| 24 | They would take off in the event of a German cut , which would make lower UK rates more likely . |
| 25 | He would make occasional forays into the United States or films , but Lynn 's only real home was in Aldwych farces as part of the Travers team which ran triumphantly into the 1930s , and he stayed with them , creating and recreating the role of the silly ass forever working his way out of impossible situations , often armed with nothing more than the famous monocle , a daft grin , and an apparently inexhaustible ability to triumph over adversity by the sheer idiocy of his own imagination . |
| 26 | ‘ I would make two points : the first is that a lot of very small-scale activity does achieve results . |
| 27 | In order to win an election , a party would make extravagant promises , doing so in order to outbid the other party . |
| 28 | On 29 April 1988 , when both the Kingman Report was published and the membership of my Working Group announced , the press presumed that I was to lead a Group which would make firm recommendations on grammar , in contrast to the equivocations of Kingman . |
| 29 | The object of the League was to create the conditions of international security that would make general disarmament possible . |
| 30 | DMITRY 'S FATHER HAD A GLOBE , and he would point out to Dmitry the different countries and continents , and would make young Dmitry memorise the names of their capital cities . |