Example sentences of "might make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the speaker might make explicit assumptions which had been left implicit in the original , or have contrasted the lecturer 's position with one with which the hearer is more familiar . |
| 2 | If it comes to be feared that the defence might make procedural capital from such inconsistencies , which is out of all proportion to their factual significance , a tendency might develop to iron out inconsistencies regarded as minor or marginal , thus weakening the re-investigation process . |
| 3 | Remove rude jokes and deliberate sexual innuendos , and also watch out for unintended double entendres which might make inebriated members of the audience laugh when you are being serious and sincere . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe one day , if things keep going well for me , I might make that sort of money . |
| 5 | One of the first rules of house and hall parties had been to scout the building for dark corners that might make useful retiring-places if the evening went well — preference was given to anywhere that had a lock on the inside . |
| 6 | As a film like Scandal , which dealt with the Profumo affair , might make young people go back and check out more about what was happening in the early sixties , so I was doing the same in terms of the fifties . |
| 7 | That they might make other choices than the ones we wish them to make ? |
| 8 | In consequence , one might make two predictions . |
| 9 | You said it might make two sheets . |
| 10 | I wonder how many readers realise that new regulations from the Department of Health might make certain foods less available . |
| 11 | One possibility is that the sentences simply invoke mental associations , in the way that hearing , say , the word prognosis might make one think of hospitals But here that does not seem to be the case . |
| 12 | In fact at one stage I thought this lack of drama might make poor reading , however , as I progressed I realised that the Club 's story was a neat piece of social-history entwined with personalities and tested by problems . |
| 13 | It might make artistic sense for the gallery to borrow some key picture to enhance the look of an exhibition , but a picture which is not for sale is an expensive use of wall space . |
| 14 | One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences . |
| 15 | The second question is the second certainly made by the Noble Earl was that the Department of Transport were urgently examining the situation , I trust with the Home Office at the same time and I would suggest that we might in fact discuss this matter if I might make er if I might make this suggestion to the Noble Earl , between now and the report stage , so that this matter can be clarified but I am sure that he will understand that we would not in fact be er feel able to erm ignore this issue er in the period between the beginning of the committee stage today and the third reading of this Bill , we do expect Government amendments to be introduced . |
| 16 | Its bulk , however , was a problem , which might make vertical ironing a little impractical . |
| 17 | The Bank Might Make Direct Loans to its Securities Division |
| 18 | Perhaps it might make more sense to restrict people to a fixed number of pets . |
| 19 | With runways congested , a jumbo-jumbo might make more sense than a small jet . |
| 20 | The Exercises were ill-received , and Gassendi seems to have decided that he might make more headway against the Aristotelians by systematically presenting an alternative point of view , rather than by direct argument against them . |
| 21 | He acknowledged that ‘ having him loose does raise the potential that he might make more mischief , take to the hills and be very hard to find ’ . |
| 22 | While we all deplore the sale of looted antiquities , it has been suggested recently that some ‘ source ’ nations , those rich in archaeological sites , might make more objects or recent archaeological finds available on loan to museums abroad . |
| 23 | You might make more profit with your proposal , but the security is less . ’ |
| 24 | Otherwise defender Darren Wassall may begin to wonder if he might make more money by doing something else at Wembley tomorrow . |
| 25 | Nobody could deny Mr Gummer this small triumph , but he might make more friends if he did n't always insist on making such a meal of it . |
| 26 | staff-student liaison committees might make more use of the findings of questionnaires to enhance their effectiveness . |
| 27 | THE WORLD 'S Olympic athletes were last night forced to take second place here … snubbed so that TV might make another extravaganza of the closing ceremony . |
| 28 | Some people who have fewer external commitments ( single , unemployed , or self-employed individuals , for example ) might make less use of normal time-cues and their rhythms might even come closer to a 25-hour free-running period . |
| 29 | You might make quick money , but you wo n't survive as a sharedealer . |
| 30 | However , he couches his explanation for these differences not simply at the level of what actual language users ‘ mean ’ , that is in relation to particular cultural practice and institutions ( within which the concept of ‘ relative objectivity ’ might make some sense ) , but instead at the level of what they ‘ say ’ , that is in relation to ‘ the lexical and grammatical structure of languages ’ , at the level of ‘ language-systems ’ , which appears to assume again the notion of absolute ‘ objectivity ’ , since , as we have seen , it offers no cultural context in which to make sense of such systems . |