Example sentences of "[modal v] make [pron] [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , insurers point out , this may make them less able to compete against other financial institutions . |
| 2 | Even in the case of a willing witness , considerations of cost and convenience may make it very desirable to avoid the requirement of attendance . |
| 3 | But this clarity may make it more difficult to play off political demands against each other , and to handle the conflicting and diffuse political pressures that inevitably persist . |
| 4 | Perhaps the social science historian needs more contextual information because the passage of time may make it more difficult to make assumptions about what data signify , but this is surely only a question of degree . |
| 5 | It is an aspect of privacy we should take more seriously ; it may seem a frail distinction to draw when armed police can batter down your front door on suspicion that a wanted person may be inside , but at least it gives the possibility of some redress , and may make it more difficult to achieve the total surveillance of society . |
| 6 | Understanding general differences between spelling and speaking may help you to improve your own spelling , and may make it more interesting to focus on spelling as an issue in your writing . |
| 7 | Every experience we have should make us better able to cope in the future . |
| 8 | Deutsche Aerospace 's size should make it better able to compete in European and international aerospace projects . |
| 9 | But he winced at that , and she thought , this has nothing to do with ego , and continued , ‘ I 'm thinking that really the big difference is that it must make it more difficult to handle things . |
| 10 | Which might make it more difficult to teach . |
| 11 | But the scale of the buy-outs might make it more difficult to maintain that position . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , is my hon. Friend the Minister not concerned about the growth in size of housing associations , which might make it more difficult to maintain the personal contact with tenants which is an important aspect of good housing management ? |
| 13 | He admitted that the ending of PRT rebates might make it more costly to drill wells confirming the size of the field , but added : ‘ We look at the production side rather than exploration and we also look at how much it costs the Government . ’ |
| 14 | This in turn could make them more likely to survive a second mutation at the p53 locus ( which is frequently seen in cancer cells ) , or indeed at any other locus . |
| 15 | Even where practices may not differ over time , or place , there may be an inconsistency about them or a lack of knowledge about them , or a long-standing dispute about them , which could make it equally difficult to argue that following or not following a practice was or was not constitutional or legitimate . |
| 16 | The spokesman for the Liberal Democrats will probably agree that to go into further detail could make it less easy to get the type of consensus that we want . |
| 17 | Nevertheless Sadig Faris , of the Thomas J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights , New York , believes that its other properties could make it sufficiently attractive to provide the necessary cooling . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd share your gin , ’ the Bishop 's wife said , ‘ except that it would make me further inclined to cry . ’ |
| 19 | I was an utter martinette about his pronunciation ( he did n't know when I did n't know ) and would make him happily furious insisting that he repeat words over and over again until I was content . |
| 20 | Supermarket trolleys have to be fairly cheap and brakes would make them less economical to produce . |
| 21 | Among the birds , body-armour is absent for the obvious reason that it would make them too heavy to fly . |
| 22 | Our ability to ‘ read ’ objects for their social appropriateness and to impose upon any series or new forms that order which would make them culturally acceptable does not in any respect lessen the place of strategy , or the possibility of intent ; both , however , are accomplished within objective conditions of which we have an underlying experience , even if we choose to deny them in formulating strategy . |
| 23 | Diabetic patients may have a damaged myocardium due to extensive atheroma and/or small-vessel cardiomyopathy before infarction ( Hamby et al , 1974 ; Regan et al , 1977 ; Factor et al , 1980 ) , which would make them more likely to develop cardiogenic shock or heart failure . |
| 24 | Local authorities took to the fashion of developing management and political processes , and institutional structures , which would make them more able to plan , control and review their activities , commensurate with their resources . |
| 25 | Intelligence would make them more difficult to control . |
| 26 | Hence any attempt at national chauvinism , by acting against foreign inward investment , would make it more difficult to argue in favour of British outward investment with foreign governments . |
| 27 | Well , it , it does n't mean that permission has to be granted at Finmere , but it , it would make it more difficult to refuse . |
| 28 | Two home defeats have dented Boro 's hopes of automatic promotion , and Lawrence said : ‘ Failure to get three points against Oxford would make it almost impossible to make the top two . |
| 29 | That would make it extremely painful to have gone short of sterling in the past few days . |
| 30 | But there can not be an infinite series of causes stretching back endlessly ; for in that case , no matter how far back we were to look , we should never find a beginning of the whole process , and that in turn would make it quite impossible to understand how it could ever have got off the ground , let alone reached its present state . |