Example sentences of "might make [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed to be the prospect of such a conference in the late summer and autumn and the chance that it might make progress . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So it might make sense to pay off part of her mortgage . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It might make sense to argue that no bona fide university could exist which did not also conduct research . |
| 13 | Sometimes , too , it might make sense to turn most of a ground or basement floor into an open-plan kitchen/living/family room/study . |
| 14 | Pupils might make stone rubbings to take back to school . |
| 15 | It could , indeed , help to establish the kind of ethos which might make recourse to legal remedies unnecessary . |
| 16 | As I understand it , he is saying that it is the official policy of the Labour party not to build the fourth boat and that his only reservation arises from the fact that certain clauses in the contract might make cancellation commercially prohibitive . |
| 17 | Its alarming feature to the orthodox was that it might make Christianity seem simply one faith among others , rather than simply truth . |
| 18 | I am writing to ask you whether we might make use of an item broadcast by ITN on 22 March 1989 . |
| 19 | This chapter is about how and why you might make use of a camera as part of a language programme . |
| 20 | Floy had spent several hours in deep discussion with Snodgrass and , between them , they had made an attempt to sketch out the layout of Tara , so that they could see if there were any weak areas they might make use of . |
| 21 | " I thought I might make coffee for them all before I go . |
| 22 | ‘ And those old Smiths might make trouble yet , ’ she sighed . |
| 23 | When Ras Tafari had paid his State Visit to London in 1924 he had brought with him several important chiefs , among them Ras Hailu of Gojjam and Ras Seyum of Tigre , the grandson of the Emperor John , all of whom he suspected might make trouble if he left them behind . |
| 24 | Luci … the French vermin might make trouble for us , I thought — stir up the countryside against us ! ’ |