Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] would make [pron] " in BNC.

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1 To suggest the hidden but omnipresent power of the TARDIS Brachaki wanted a system of lights behind the roundels that would make them glow and pulse while the ship was in flight .
2 They fed these children with these tablets that would make them go and the parents were rushing out and buying tablets to make the children intel the children intelligent .
3 the operators did not develop knowledge or skills that would make them promotable .
4 I 've seen splints and saddle sores that would make you blench , and you can pull the coat off some of them with your bare hands . ’
5 I bought a new Wilson FM with a sliding table for tenoning , a reversing switch , roll-on and roll-off tables , all the whistles and bells that would make it a really useful machine .
6 Erm , some coloration that would make it still ours .
7 ‘ It was the sort of smell that would make you sick , like raw sewage .
8 I knew your ways , that streak of obstinacy that would make you always run counter , even as an infant .
9 Its the sort of aeroplane that would make anyone proud to own it .
10 When I last met them in September , I asked them to consider urgently three specific point : first , the introduction of visible vehicle identification numbers ; secondly , the fitting of deadlocking across all their vehicle ranges ; and , most important , the development of an effective vehicle immobilising device that would make it impossible to move a car even if it had been broken into .
11 In some other far-flung continents not even the plants can be trusted to leave your flesh intact , and exotic colourful insects that would make us reach for our cameras here land on your arm and lay eggs in it .
12 Her part in Share My Lettuce had done as much for her own theatrical career as the show had done for Ken , and she was embarking on a series of films that would make her an international reputation .
13 I asked her if she had any medication that would make me a better surfer .
14 And what we have found that is the county , Harrogate certainly and ourselves from direct experience this last two years , is that one of the features , we have an attractive county to such inward investors , its its environment , its people , its setting , its air and everything else is good , but one of the features that we have so far been unable to offer is a planning framework which means that the marketing authority can deliver , guarantee delivery of the planning consent that would make it happen .
15 I may look like a demure little wife who sits at home minding the house , but darling , I could tell you one or two things that would make your ears stand up on end . ’
16 That is the good side of the Texan , the stuff that would make him an asset in countries , such as Britain or France , where the old political order needs a solid whack .
17 ‘ Do I look like the kind of person that would make his home on a ball of rock like this ? ’
18 But clearly it is another factor that would make it the less satisfactory for us simply to refuse the application without more .
19 Erm whether we want to add something on to the agenda that would make it more acceptable to them like health and safety or whatever .
20 She was a sweet , loving person and would make someone a wonderful wife .
21 Or had it been something more subtle , a pledge that , despite everything , they were allies , that he understood her priorities and would make them his ?
22 They needed a device able to scan lumps of rocks and pick out those worth processing at a rate that would make it possible to work on the huge scale required to make extraction from low-grade ores economical .
23 At the same time , the worker has at his command tools and machinery that would make him feel enormous strength but he feels impotent because he is involved in only one part of the pattern of mass production ; never experiencing involvement with a total process from the raw material stage through to a finished product .
24 ‘ I had a test done and when I was told it was positive , my husband and I both knew , as if by some sort of sixth sense , that this was the baby that would make it . ’
25 Now that her daughter is two , Janet would like to go back to work but finds it impossible to arrange childcare that would make it worthwhile .
26 Tom Watson from the US was bidding for the joint record-sixth British Open victory that would make him immortal alongside Harry Vardon .
27 She knew her own areas of brilliance , she was a political philosopher and would make her mark in that subject if given time .
28 Tales as would make your hair stand on end ! ’
29 The argument is that we or others have made mistakes in the past or would make them in circumstances which , so far as we can tell , are not relevantly different from our present circumstances .
30 The National Consumer Council ( NCC ) is pressing for legislation that would make it compulsory for home-sellers to reveal property faults and potential problems to buyers , and make estate agents liable for the accuracy of the details they publish .
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