Example sentences of "would make [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Not that it would make much difference in this bloody place .
4 The same method using netting would make effective protection for a bed of a dozen or more high-yielding strawberry plants .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 . ’
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 The repository would make extensive use of cement and concrete as ‘ engineered ’ barriers .
12 Patten also announced that he would make extensive use of enhanced capping powers in 1991 .
13 It was anticipated , however , that at least during the first stage Gorbachev would make extensive use of emergency powers , granted to him in September , to introduce reforms by presidential decree .
14 Large sums of money were being spent on the expansion of arts degree courses whose students would make little contribution to Britain 's economic welfare .
15 In practice one suspects that it would make little sense to the participants in any of these cases to ask who is really being supported : .
16 Without such a move , the current attempts to define the notion of logical consequence more or less directly on fragments of natural language ( as initiated by Montague , 1974 ) would make little sense as a general semantic programme .
17 It would make little sense in this context to increase the categories of sexual assault simply to maintain gender specificity .
18 One more would make little difference to him and Seb had first-hand experience of the man 's anger .
19 As throughout the tour , Ashenden had observed the opportunist self-seekers at the front of the queue ( as ever ) for the room-keys ; and in the rear ( as ever ) the quieter , seemingly contented souls who perhaps knew that being first or last to their rooms would make little difference to the quality of their living .
20 Isambard would make little ado about hanging a marauding boy who had attempted his life , especially one who was no business of the county justices or the crown , and had no one in England to take his part .
21 In June 1960 he went so far as to write to Ashby himself — by then Sir Eric and the Master of Clare College , Cambridge — setting out the case and asking whether he would make personal representations to the Minister to secure unilateral treatment for the Eastern District .
22 The compromise was a filler story which would make good use of the available studio .
23 The Windows Smartdrive memory management and caching system , it was decided , would make good use of the extra RAM and make the system more efficient .
24 You would make front page of the .
25 The member of staff would make all decisions regarding letting with the head not involved in the process but retaining the power of final veto to be applied in sensitive cases !
26 He envisaged this as a well-balanced wheel driven by a lead weight suspended from its axle so that it would make one revolution between sunrise and sunset .
27 IF Fred Barker , Master of the Quorn , believes that changing garb would make one iota of difference to those who object to hunting then he must live in cloud cuckoo land .
28 As their only specific spending pledges are on child benefit and pensions , I do not see how a Labour Administration would make one iota of difference to unemployment .
29 And it 's really to provide , according to Derek , it 's to provide the Secretary of State with some ideas of costings of , if she decides the new careers services to run careers conventions , she would make that part of the specification and she would know how much that that was likely to cost her .
30 There is only one thing to say about the Home Secretary 's speech : I have heard more intellectual contributions from Lord Waddington on the subject , and I never believed that I would make that statement about anyone holding the office of Home Secretary .
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