Example sentences of "might make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today a car manufacturer might make engines in one country , steering wheels in another and then assemble the car in a third . |
| 2 | There seemed to be the prospect of such a conference in the late summer and autumn and the chance that it might make progress . |
| 3 | For instance , he or she might make observations about the beauty of the natural world or the complexity of its design , and claim that these were evidence of the existence of a divine Creator . |
| 4 | I despise Picasso 's negligence in not leaving documentary proof of his wish that ‘ Guernica ’ be housed in the Prado , so precluding that its lasting and ridiculous presence there might make visitors fall about laughing . |
| 5 | ‘ This might make conservative , this , ’ says Clint , thinking back to his recent viewing of Basic Instinct , ’ but I think it 's a bad day , me , when people like Michael Douglas are seen fookin' noshing on a woman 's minge . |
| 6 | This was done to maximize the possibility of detecting contrasts over conditions , since an asymmetry would be expected to lead to high proportions of singular continuations which might make differences between conditions hard to detect . |
| 7 | On the other hand it might make matters worse . ’ |
| 8 | As in the case of the caddises , this language might make geneticists uneasy . |
| 9 | He told me that he had said to Ivy that he hoped between the three of us we might make head or tail of it , and she said , ‘ Well , we are three intelligent people , so I ca n't see why we should have any difficulty . ’ |
| 10 | Slowly , the European Community is edging towards laws that might make rules on shareholdings and takeovers more homogeneous and more liberal , though a deal is many years away . |
| 11 | In his reply on 2 August [ KP 6 ] Eden put the second view , which was that it was essential to return Soviet prisoners to the Soviet Union , because otherwise the Soviet authorities might make difficulties over the large number of British and allied Prisoners of War in those parts of Europe which would be liberated by the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | In times of social upheaval we guard against anything that might make society fragment too precipitately and dangerously , and we try to take care that racist or intolerant literature is suppressed . |
| 13 | We might make $10 a ton from selling waste materials , and we might avoid $10 a ton of landfill charges . |
| 14 | Unlike his brother he genuinely respected the constitutional structures of Hungary and the Austrian Netherlands : he was attracted by the possibility that the local autonomy which they so strongly represented might make government cheaper by reducing the number of centrally appointed officials needed to run it . |
| 15 | It could make it much easier for the presenter to describe an unusual item , and here perhaps a sample of the article itself might make life even simpler . |
| 16 | She allowed the silence to hum on the line , hoping it might make Christine Mills understand how ridiculous she sounded . |
| 17 | This bargaining process is likely to take place in secluded agencies where the state and societal elites can work out deals , sheltered from any formalized and universally applicable legislation which might make bargains too difficult to achieve . |
| 18 | More volunteers might make way for evening opening , Saturday morning opening , outreach work or specialist work , but some of the West Midlands workers expressed a fear of working unsupervised . |
| 19 | HongMid possibly thinks that , now that the Japanese banks have abandoned their role as lender of first resort and some of the borrowers are not the forces they were , global banking might make sense again . |
| 20 | It might make sense to the financial director faced with a demand which far outweighs supply ; after all , this recycling of other houses ' wines is perfectly legal , but it is at the same time deliberately hoodwinking the public . |
| 21 | So it might make sense to pay off part of her mortgage . |
| 22 | It was the outsider when ground share was first muted , but a super-league home for Edinburgh football in the west of the city , handy for the motorways and the bypass might make sense , might it not ? 's the number to dial . |
| 23 | It might make sense to argue that no bona fide university could exist which did not also conduct research . |
| 24 | Sometimes , too , it might make sense to turn most of a ground or basement floor into an open-plan kitchen/living/family room/study . |
| 25 | In fact , we already thought that sex might fit into this category : it is likely to be associated with status ( women tend to do lower status jobs ) and absenteeism ( domestic commitments might make women more absence-prone than men ) . |
| 26 | Pupils might make stone rubbings to take back to school . |
| 27 | Then she came to the conclusion that it might make things easier . |
| 28 | With a corporation that is in trouble a lot of actions might make things worse so the natural tendency is to try to escape from the present troubles by setting a specific objective and moving towards that . |
| 29 | ‘ So you thought I would sell to another vet and that might make things worse for you on the principle that the devil you know is better than the devil you do n't know . ’ |
| 30 | On a pro rata basis this might make £92.7 million available to primary and community care . |