Example sentences of "would [verb] made it " in BNC.

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1 Had he been around at the time of my capture I do n't believe I 'd have made it very far .
2 Cos if they were trying to get peasant support and erm showing the importance of peasants instead of the United Front they would 've made it public .
3 In 1987 lower interest rates in West Germany would have made it possible to prop up the dollar ( as the G7 countries had earlier promised they would ) without raising American interest rates .
4 It would have made it easier to help you , and I venture the opinion that our servants feel well treated .
5 Its elasticity would have made it the ideal candidate for a trampoline-cover .
6 Updating this legendary story would have made it ridiculous — not that this has ever deterred some of our intrepid producers — for its crux is the shooting of the apple on young Jemmy 's head ( brilliantly staged ) , and how do you get round that ?
7 If you believe all the tourist literature , Charlie , had he come to power , would have made it compulsory to live in rock fissures .
8 Only a fraction harder and it would have made it .
9 The only way I could have done real justice to the subject would have been to cut down on other chapters , and that would have made it more of a carp book than anything else .
10 ‘ Ten minutes earlier and he would have made it over them rocks into the pool , ’ concluded Lofty .
11 ( Had this kind of European provision existed in the 1920s and 1930s it might and probably would have made it much more difficult for the Fascist and other extreme forms of government to take hold . )
12 Given the current moral climate , just how many of the great American presidents would have made it into the White House today ?
13 Whether he would have made it with his fairly anaemic academic record at Wellington is another matter .
14 To start with , though his new car was an excellent and reliable machine , it lacked that complete superiority over its competitors which would have made it — as the Lotus , say , did for Mario Andretti — a necessary world-beater .
15 The position of the piece of gravel would have made it virtually impossible for the fish to dislodge it .
16 ‘ Another 90 seconds and he would have made it . ’
17 He added : ‘ Another 90 seconds and he would have made it . ’
18 Neil Foster of Essex would have made it a year ago after his spectacular haul of 106 wickets and remembering his superb bowling when he produced the performance of his life as the Test bowling hero of Madras under Gower 's leadership .
19 Japanese sources gave the R2Y1 an estimated maximum speed of 493mph and a range of 2,400 miles , which would have made it invulnerable .
20 The low level of the aircraft on entering the Harbour and its speed , would have made it impossible for heavy anti-aircraft guns to depress and traverse to follow the aircraft and even difficult for 30mm cannon such as Bofors , even when the aircraft climbed to sixty feet to drop its torpedo .
21 Unless the United Nations peacekeepers proved very much tougher in Serbia than they have done in Croatia , that would have made it unlikely that Croats and Muslims would have felt secure enough to return to their former homes .
22 Baroness Wootton tabled an amendment that , had it been accepted , would have made it no longer an offence ‘ to procure or conspire to commit a homosexual act which by virtue of this Act is not itself an offence ’ .
23 The twelve-hour shift pattern was also an obstacle to change in that it would have made it difficult to recruit new staff for hospital development .
24 That would have made it 45 for 5 .
25 Gloucester 's position as sole surviving brother of the king , coupled with his outstanding record of service to the crown , would have made it impossible to pass him over , even in a society aware of the dangers which guardianship by a paternal uncle posed to the interests of the heir .
26 Although the council might have been prepared to accept the Woodvilles ' present position , its desire for continuity would have made it unwilling to see Woodville influence extended .
27 Indeed their background as Greek intellectuals would have made it nonsensical to them to have said of a particular item in our world ( a particular human being ) that he was ‘ God ’ .
28 The assumption here is that if the pound had been devalued earlier on this would have made it possible to adhere to the growth path of the plan , but in the light of the comments made above this view is open to doubt : it gives the plan more credibility than it merited .
29 A casual glance would have made it seem that her expression was stiff with anger .
30 Reynolds would n't have been able to stand upright in one of them , and the open-mesh floor would have made it even more uncomfortable .
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