Example sentences of "[noun sg] that would make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unionists were only interested in a deal that would make Lloyd George 's capture public . |
| 2 | As the moment approached for a key procedural vote that would make or break Reagan 's programme , Stockman received an agitated telephone call from Bill Thomas , a conservative Republican from California and an agent of the administration on Capitol Hill : This extended quotation provides a fascinating picture of the American pluralist system in operation while helping us to understand why the Reaganites were successful in fashioning the coalitions they required in the House of Representatives . |
| 3 | King & McGaw 's order and delivery department enable us to feature posters for almost any book promotion we have undertaken at very short notice , and its warehouse staff can pick , pack and despatch any quantity of posters from a large range with a speed that would make most book publishers ' head spin ( with a twice-weekly delivery and a next day customer order service , I think most booksellers would agree with me ) . |
| 4 | A check-list that would make a modern bird-watcher salivate was served up on the Elizabethan menu : ‘ the-food of heroes , fit for the palates of the great ’ , as Camden describes pewits , godwits , knot , and dotterel . |
| 5 | The Strategic Defence Initative Organisation , which over the past decade has spent some $10 billion in answer to Ronald Reagan 's call for a defence that would make nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete , is no more . |
| 6 | At least they did so until the local priest warned them that if they did not stop , he 'd say a prayer that would make the dead rise from their graves and walk the length and breadth of the islands . |
| 7 | When he let go of her , she fell back against the sideboard , clutching it for support , fighting for enough composure so that she could make some clever response that would make clear that the kiss had not disturbed her in the least . |
| 8 | Erm , some coloration that would make it still ours . |
| 9 | Improved morale would also make possible organizational advances outside parliament , all linked to the issue of Ulster , and with the sights fixed firmly on the next election , an election that would make or break the Union , the Empire and Law 's leadership of the party . |
| 10 | ‘ It was the sort of smell that would make you sick , like raw sewage . |
| 11 | I knew your ways , that streak of obstinacy that would make you always run counter , even as an infant . |
| 12 | Its the sort of aeroplane that would make anyone proud to own it . |
| 13 | To recoup , the government is expected to speed up the passage of a law that would make insider-trading a crime . |
| 14 | Left : Trout with Stilton is a tasty dish that would make a good seasonal starter |
| 15 | Of a sort that would make the word ’ hovel ’ sound to grand . |
| 16 | The object of the League was to create the conditions of international security that would make general disarmament possible . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It 's got a tube that would make the the other one go . |
| 19 | I asked her if she had any medication that would make me a better surfer . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Do I look like the kind of person that would make his home on a ball of rock like this ? ’ |
| 23 | But clearly it is another factor that would make it the less satisfactory for us simply to refuse the application without more . |
| 24 | They were cross with each other because of him , and now Nanny was saying bad things about Smallfry that would make Buddie very , very angry . |
| 25 | Eighteenth-century Bristol was an environmental disaster area with problems of atmospheric pollution that would make present-day Mexico City seem like a health resort . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There is , I believe , a strong case for encouraging more administrators from the developing countries to participate in seminars of that sort , while at the same time trying to reduce the very heavy demand that would make on the time of people primarily engaged in other tasks . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I 've learned to turn the other cheek in a manner that would make Christian proud . |