Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The up-side is that you have reached a stage where you can make some decisions . |
| 2 | The business schools also provide recruits for domestic industry , and in many Third World countries the government gives young graduates from such institutions posts with high degrees of responsibility in national development agencies where they can make substantial contributions to the welfare of their nations . |
| 3 | If no such committee is formed , who or what will make those recommendations ? |
| 4 | There is only one thing to say about the Home Secretary 's speech : I have heard more intellectual contributions from Lord Waddington on the subject , and I never believed that I would make that statement about anyone holding the office of Home Secretary . |
| 5 | Please let me know at least two days in advance so that I can make other arrangements . ’ |
| 6 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 7 | I find it difficult to take orders , to be a follower rather than a leader , but I would n't have accepted if I was n't confident that I could make some contribution to the station . |
| 8 | He meant , that I should make such fun of him . |
| 9 | It was , I thought , the last time that she would make sarky remarks about a fellow medium 's performance . |
| 10 | If I 'm depressed at all it is that I think that you could make this process slightly less obtrusive and violent and spark-generating if there was more systematic analysis and discussion beforehand , going back a long way . |
| 11 | These I think are self-evident ; that you can make these measurements and that they are relevant to assessing the welfare of the animal . |
| 12 | If this is relativity it is like Einstein 's , by which it is not that you can make any measurement come out as you please , but that from any spatio-temporal viewpoint you can estimate what will be the right measurement from any other . |
| 13 | I do hope you enjoy looking through the Reference Book and that you will make good use of it throughout the year . |
| 14 | It is certainly not unreasonable to refuse to give up a bank note which you pick up in the street to the first stranger who alleges it to be his , if you tell him that you must make further inquiries or that he must produce evidence which will authenticate his claim . |
| 15 | The biggest firms maintain a network of show sites across the country , so you can make one trip both to collect literature and to view the garages . |
| 16 | I accept that one can make some criticisms about Labour local authorities , but what I dislike about the Secretary of State 's usual contribution is that it is so cliche d , simplistic and grotesque . |
| 17 | I and a few others who only that morning had begun to look forward to a peaceful summer ahead , swiftly concluded that we must make some gesture of our own in order to demonstrate the feelings of many of our fellow conservative Members of Parliament . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , Gaitskell did not think that the issue of public ownership was ‘ sterile ’ and during the heated debates on Clause IV he stated : ‘ I conclude that we should make two things clear to the country . |
| 19 | It believed ‘ we now have good reason to expect that we will make considerable progress in 1993 ’ . |
| 20 | Now we have to be careful with the word ‘ redemptive ’ because in a final way only Christ 's sufferings can be deemed truly redemptive ; but I feel that we can make guarded use of the term . |
| 21 | For example , we have found that we can make good businesses by selling services that we developed for use in our own company . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , we 'd like more adverts , so we can make more money and expand a bit . |
| 23 | ‘ The country is less broken farther on , so we should make better time tomorrow and be out of the hills the day after that . ’ |
| 24 | Church schools which have chosen to transfer to the education authority , rather than be independent , become public schools ( the term used in Scotland for maintained or state schools ) , although they can make separate arrangements for denominational instruction . |
| 25 | I mean , I think , I had n't realized that they would make different decisions on medical grounds . |
| 26 | That they might make other choices than the ones we wish them to make ? |
| 27 | Maxim just wanted to know where the battle lines now stood so that they could make new plans . |
| 28 | Veterinarians indicated that they could make significant use of videos to demonstrate a gradual deterioration in health and how animals reacted and behaved when suffering certain illnesses . |
| 29 | It seems likely that they will make little impact , one reason being that they appear to be more concerned with targeting existing jobs rather than creating genuinely new ones . |
| 30 | I am copying this letter to Shop Stewards within the Community Charge Registration Office and Exchequer Division in order that they can make appropriate arrangements to be represented with yourself . |