Example sentences of "[modal v] make a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a choice is available , however , the librarian will pick his booksellers carefully , trying to gain access through each to some particular advantage : a good shelf stock in certain subjects , from which the librarian may make a personal selection in the shop ; a link with the American book trade ; a quick service for urgent requests ; an agency for required series of foreign books ; a technically knowledgeable and reliable staff ; an annual sale of slow-selling books at reduced prices . |
| 2 | If she is fond of animals , providing her with a cat or a small dog of her own , if she can look after it ( and if your household as a whole would find its presence acceptable ) , may make a tremendous difference to her life . |
| 3 | If so , the arbitrator may make a separate recommendation to The Post Office that they give you an ‘ ex gratia ’ payment . |
| 4 | Dry deposition may make a major contribution to the acidity problem . |
| 5 | Thus the fast process may make a permanent contribution during the sensitive period , while its influence later would adjust the cortical feature detectors , tending to make them respond most to the unusual combinations and coincidences in their input . |
| 6 | For under conditions of largely unrestricted discretion , factors such as the character , attitude , training and social background of sentencers may make a considerable difference to the way their discretion is exercised . |
| 7 | The landowner , estate agent or speculator may make a direct approach to the developer . |
| 8 | Lynch may make a flying visit to the French festival but he 's a busy man , preparing three new films — a real life action version of UK kids comic strip Ronnie Rocket , a version of Kafka 's Metamorphosis and a second Twin Peaks movie . |
| 9 | short two years may make a big difference at this stage now , erm |
| 10 | A second approach is to frame the law in such a way as to make it clear that the court should make a moral judgment on the gravity of the defendant 's conduct . |
| 11 | SILLARS STALKER * , who was winning for the first time on the Flat when landing an apprentice handicap at Hamilton Park eight days ago , should make a successful return to the Scottish track in today 's Levy Board Handicap ( 5.15 ) . |
| 12 | The subject matter should make a technical contribution to the state of the art . |
| 13 | I believe we should all warmly welcome this opportunity to debate the role of audit ; it gives the users of audit services the opportunity to have their say and it should make a major contribution to dealing with the expectation gap . |
| 14 | There is a growing expectation , not least from WACC 's friends in Eastern and Central Europe and the Soviet Union , that our Christian association should make a substantial contribution to the ethical debate on communication . |
| 15 | Anselm immediately dropped the threat of excommunication when the king returned his lands and revenues , and he made no conditions about the issue of homage or investiture beyond agreeing that he and the king should make a joint approach to the pope to hasten a settlement . |
| 16 | He should make a Vice Presidency within five , the Presidency within ten . |
| 17 | Yes , yes , well I am too , and that we shall pay the penalty later on if we do n't get with us and I feel that erm , as difficult as the budget is , as tight as it is with reduction etcetera , I feel that we should make a positive funding for prevention or something , or er , because I think unless we do start somewhere , and quickly , we are going to pay the penalty at the end of the and so we 've got to make a date , you 've got to make a year , and if you wait and say and well we have n't got it now , well next year we shall say we have n't got it now , and the next year we 'll say we have n't got it now . |
| 18 | Sterling 's devaluation should make a positive difference to industry 's competitiveness and profitability ; but the impact on exports may not be very strong while growth in continental Europe continues to slow . |
| 19 | If a patient complains of any of these problems the nurse should make a careful assessment of the situation by asking tactful questions . |
| 20 | Since most of the beginner 's forensic work will be in county courts and magistrates ' courts , he should make a special point of familiarising himself with the procedure and powers of these courts . |
| 21 | An alternative and fairer approach would be for an incoming radical government to insist that each of the privatized industries should make a free issue of stock , by way of compensation for the sale of public assets at deflated prices . |
| 22 | BEING THRIFTY Some of the ways in which you can be thrifty with food will be covered in the next chapter and energy management discussed in Chapter 3 , should make a significant difference to your heating bills in the winter . |
| 23 | These modifications ( which amount mostly to improvements in the quality of pots , switches and plugs ) should make a significant difference to the way your wireless system and guitar interact . |
| 24 | He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences . |
| 25 | They are unlikely to give up their title easily and should make a winning start against Munster at Ballymena 's Eaton Park on Saturday . |
| 26 | If the model is set up correctly , it should make a steep descent under full control . |
| 27 | The suggestion was made that the Borough Council should make a discretionary grant of 100% rate relief to public halls in the rural part of the borough . |
| 28 | It should make a lovely display against ‘ Black Beauty ’ , another very distinctive pansy . |
| 29 | The job must make a worthwhile contribution to corporate or work objectives . |
| 30 | In another analogy , our mind can be thought of as a huge tapestry in which the many episodes of life were originally isolated and there was no relationship between the parts ; but at last we must make a unified scene of our whole life . |