Example sentences of "have make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I do n't know though , it would have made great television . |
| 3 | Some of the eurypterids may even have made tentative excursions on to the land . |
| 4 | The high level of the stock market in the last six months may have made certain bids , for underperforming companies , uneconomic . |
| 5 | The Brundtland Commission may have made sustainable development the end-of-century watchword , defining it as ‘ development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs ’ , but even Tolba has wondered aloud whether it amounts to much more than a shibboleth . |
| 6 | As a magazine article , any one of these chapters would have made good reading . |
| 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 | Dunes , palm trees , mud-brick villages , children and animals would have made good picture postcards , but , for all its beauty , the desert was terrifying . |
| 9 | Continuing on down the street the Ahearns , a Catholic family who were all of small stature , the Frys , another quiet family and the Vincents who in contrast to the Ahearns were all well built — in fact the sons could all have made good guardsmen . |
| 10 | I see they have made new breadpans of the right size out of empty cooking-oil cans from the US AID supplementary feeding programme — these were brought out recently by a local agency who helped the women to build a new oven . |
| 11 | they , they had to improve the productivity from the land and im well not productivity , just efficiency generally , and that how that it would n't have made economic sense for them to have gone straight for socialism . |
| 12 | If she had n't resisted he would no doubt have made sure Peter knew at once that she was n't to be trusted ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He will have made sure Virginia looked as beautiful and sensuous as possible . |
| 15 | ‘ Did it occur to you that I might have made other arrangements ? ’ she said eventually . |
| 16 | Within five years we should have made substantial progress towards a Herbarium database , integrated with BG-BASE software , and with software for Herbarium loans and labels . |
| 17 | It would n't have made political sense in that how the , they were deliberately choosing cautious policy which would enable them to stay in power . |
| 18 | Moreover , Purefoy may have made unreasonable demands on those who worked for him . |
| 19 | Had the two been at their prime in the same era Scotland 's midfield would have made Dirty Harry look like a wimp . |
| 20 | It must have made front-page news . |
| 21 | By contrast , seemingly secure elders may have made inauthentic adaptations to life which are disguised by the routines and objects of daily living . |
| 22 | However , developments in computer technology ( eg microcomputers linked to a larger central computer or networked micros ) may also have made decentralised management control easier and cheaper . |
| 23 | Ted thought we 'd have made short work of a mere hundred thousand Hun . |
| 24 | Carmen would have made short work of Michael too . |
| 25 | You would have made short work of the lock if you were inclined that way . ’ |
| 26 | Mr Balladur and his ministers may have made soothing noises abroad over GATT , but they show no signs at home of abandoning the previous government 's intransigence . |
| 27 | But the writer could equally have made different decisions about what should be treated as given ( shared background knowledge ) and what should be presented as new . |
| 28 | What I 'm trying to establish in in a fairly simplified form actually , are the areas of difference and whether some of those are still capable of being reconciled , because of the way in which you a you know the the the different parties may have made different approaches but in fact you might come to an agreement about that . |
| 29 | And if , later that day , 20 newsmen and photographers had turned up at our family bonfire party and witnessed my hysterical attempt to restrain my husband from re-lighting that dud super-rocket ( well , I was n't sure his life insurance was paid up ) , speculation as to the real state of our marriage could doubtless have made dramatic headlines . |
| 30 | Hospitals in the eighteenth century may not have made national mortality worse ( Cherry 1980 ) , but they were too few to improve the national health . |