Example sentences of "would have make the " in BNC.

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1 But at least the Cain 's mob would have made the lunch where the awards were announced .
2 UP UNTIL Mind Bomb it was easy to see why Matt Johnson had never toured The The during its 10-year life span : the group was never more than a shifting collection of session players and ‘ guests ’ , songs so devoted to doom and gloom limited audiences to Exit members , the lunacy of the extended format Infected video implied visions far beyond the confines of the stage , and an inflated sense of his own worth would have made the risk of failure too great .
3 The United deal , if it had won US Transportation Department approval , would have made the airline the largest employee-owned corporation in America .
4 So perhaps they would have made the same mistakes as well. , He believes his most serious mistake was wanting to get things done in a hurry .
5 Walpole got full environmental approval , but it already has a state prison , and local residents were successful twice last year in lobbying the legislature to reject bills that would have made the land available for the harbour clean-up .
6 While Elisabeth concentrated unswervingly on chewing , regretting the absence of a serrated steak-knife , which would have made the cutting of the meat into very small slices so much easier , Mitzi was intent upon communication .
7 Without warning the air was split by a high pitched banshee wail , rising and falling on a sliding scale of pain that would have made the slates fall off the roof if there had been any .
8 ‘ First , had I chosen to have an abortion or for him to be allowed to die , I would have made the biggest mistake of my life .
9 It is not clear whether the transition from one quite understandable activity to another that would have made the old commercial librarians blush even to contemplate ( one thinks of Day 's library ticket with its ‘ Scarce books and books out of print carefully searched for ’ ) was simply a question of the slippery slope in a semi-literate world .
10 She had crossed it once before , but she knew it would be much more risky today , because the recent heavy rains would have made the surface gluey , and if she slipped or made a false step she might find herself caught and held in the treacly morass of the marsh .
11 Hall seems not to have fulfilled his promise to cost the winning designs , as Hunt , who presumably would have made the estimates , did not examine the plans , and there is no evidence of Hall having reported this information back to Parliament .
12 More physical discussion of simpler examples and of experimental results , and less detailed mathematical analysis of particular problems ( sometimes of dubious relevance ) , would have made the book more readable and more useful .
13 Not that this would have made the slightest difference to the outcome .
14 He was a good footballer , who would have made the top in that field had he so wished .
15 Mildred dived for Ethel 's bench , knowing that Ethel would have made the best potion of all , and there it was , dark green and bubbling in the cauldron , with a half-full test-tube conveniently spilling a puddle of the liquid onto the bench .
16 Wales B could have repeated Swansea 's midweek defeat of the world champions but Llanelli outside-half Colin Stephens missed with three penalties , a conversion and a drop goal — 14 points that would have made the difference .
17 The displays of china and silver-framed photographs and the arrangements of feathers and dried flowers would have made the atmosphere claustrophobic if the immense windows had not let in so much light .
18 ‘ In a subsequent editorial the newspaper fiercely attacked the CPS decision … and questioned whether the CPS would have made the same decision if the woman had been a black girl caught in exactly the same way on Broadwater Farm .
19 The use of real stone would have made the shell too heavy to move , and so carved and painted wood to represent the creamy white of Lutyens 's favourite Portland stone was used .
20 The sheer size of the audience would have made the decade significant but what is of more interest in the 1930s was the way in which responses to Hollywood became more and more complex .
21 The only way the scale effect could have been achieved is with layers of shaped leather or metal : either would have made the garment extremely heavy and unwieldy .
22 The artillery officer wondered why no one had thought to blow up the bridge which crossed the River Sambre in the centre of the town , but he supposed there must be fords close to Charleroi which would have made the destruction of the fine stone bridge into a futile and even petulant gesture .
23 It is obvious how this affair had to end : the political logic of the contest would have made the gamble ‘ adventurist ’ even if the military logic had not .
24 Warner had added with casual precision which would have made the Gestapo rage in frustration if they had intercepted it : ‘ The bomb landed at deep mid-on , bowling from the Nursery end . ’
25 First , is it right that a remedy should be refused because the respondent would have made the same decision even if it had not acted illegally ?
26 Why were these important topics omitted ? first , it would have made the project too large ( as it is , the Convention runs to 101 articles ) .
27 I can not think of anything that would have made the loss of the election from my point of view more certain .
28 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 .
29 Cyril Cusack for example , on the strength of his previous performances , would have made the Doctor a gentle figure , possibly more in tune with Patrick Troughton 's rendering some years later .
30 The Select Committee , packed by the government with its own supporters , was now expected by Huskisson , President of the Board of Trade , to approve a Bill drafted by the shipowning interest which would have made the organising of trade unions , and even friendly societies , virtually impossible .
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