Example sentences of "it [modal v] make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where land is already spoilt , it may make more sense to find appropriate uses for it than to clean it up . |
| 2 | Hence it may make more sense for soldiers to be in the public sector than street-sweepers . |
| 3 | However , if this is north facing it may make more sense to move it to a sunnier position . |
| 4 | As for the class of goods , it should make little difference here , since the businessman should be better able than the private party to assess them . |
| 5 | It should make some effort to understand . |
| 6 | Whatever the future pattern of health care in London , it must make adequate provision for the demands likely to be made in the immediate future . |
| 7 | It must make some chord fingerings awkward , though … |
| 8 | ‘ It might make interesting reading for the over 30 sporting population , ’ he says . |
| 9 | It might make artistic sense for the gallery to borrow some key picture to enhance the look of an exhibition , but a picture which is not for sale is an expensive use of wall space . |
| 10 | Perhaps it might make more sense to restrict people to a fixed number of pets . |
| 11 | Wainfleet carried on : ‘ I 've apologized — I 'll even apologize to Linley if it 'll make any difference — but what more can I do ? ’ |
| 12 | What about the sweatshops of Korea , or the rich Kuwaiti women who buy merely for their own pleasure and hide their couture gowns under their abayas because they are not allowed to display themselves … it 's a far cry from the fashion world as it is usually depicted , it could make fascinating copy . |
| 13 | There was division in UNTCOK whether it could accomplish anything in the circumstances ; some members felt it should report the impossibility of proceeding but others believed that it could make limited progress . |
| 14 | For Shirley , who has battle with asthma on a daily basis , the genetic research has no direct bearings yet , but for her children 's children , it could make better treatment , perhaps even a cure , a reality . |
| 15 | The lord president tried to attract support by embarking on a reform of the council , particularly by a reduction in its fees ; but it could make little progress against the obstructionism of Secretary Ingram , who had the backing at court of the lord treasurer , Lionel Cranfield ( later Earl of Middlesex , q.v . ) . |
| 16 | Of the Unionist press , only the Daily Telegraph supported the coalition , and it could make little head against such a tide . |
| 17 | Cos if you did n't have that it 'd make this room more viable in as much as erm , the point of view of doing doing catering and , functions and all the rest of it . |
| 18 | ‘ If you grew something like carrots it 'd make some sense . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It would make one regret to lose it and yet I shall think nothing but that loss wanting to complete my happiness . |
| 22 | It would make better sense if the money which new contractors raised to sustain their bids were to go , as the Campaign for Quality Television ( CQT ) urges , into programme-making . |
| 23 | However , when teacher appraisal is a firm part of educational reform , it would make better sense if certain aspects of management in initial teacher education could consciously be brought together with the assessment of teacher capacity . |
| 24 | If the Loyalists are so determined to live under British rule , it would make economic sense for them to be assisted to move to the mainland . |
| 25 | 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 : . |
| 26 | If my toothache were an event analogous to , but entirely separated from the neurophysiological process that accompanies it , it would make little sense going to a dentist in search of relief . |
| 27 | It would make little sense in this context to increase the categories of sexual assault simply to maintain gender specificity . |
| 28 | One view holds it might be worth preserving only information derived from the telecommunications record , but that it would make little sense to keep it all . |
| 29 | It would make little difference what time of day it was . |
| 30 | It would make good sense to increase that cadre of coaches to five . |