Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] make [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is particularly dangerous because the weight and drag of the second cable may make it difficult to get the nose down . |
| 2 | Furthermore , cable may make it possible for people to interchange information on a rapid two-way basis . |
| 3 | Face-to-face conversation in quiet circumstances may be easy , but group chatter or background noise may make it impossible to understand the speaker . |
| 4 | Parliament may make it a crime for a Frenchman to smoke on the streets of Paris but he may puff away on the Montparnasse with impunity ( until , that is , he arrives at Dover ) . |
| 5 | Regional brewers fear that the decision may make them vulnerable to predators . |
| 6 | Mm that 's a bit let's make it more awkward . |
| 7 | The accumulation of life 's experience should make us at our wisest when we are old . |
| 8 | Rather he thinks that ants ' social organisation and skills should make them at least as rewarding to study as the birds and mammals on which animal behaviourists have focused . |
| 9 | United 's Maurice Malpas sustained a groin injury and is doubtful for Scotland 's match against Germany on Wednesday but Duncan Ferguson should make it despite a thigh knock . |
| 10 | Then if there is a stipulation as to the time by which the buyer must make his nomination , that stipulation as to time relates to delivery and will be ‘ of the essence , ’ Bunge Corporation v. Tradax ( 1981 H.L. ) . |
| 11 | On the proposal that the training contract should make it possible for employers to recover the cost of their investment in training , the difficulties to which the hon. Gentleman referred can be reflected in the contract . |
| 12 | If this is the case then the opening sentence must make your purpose clear : |
| 13 | It was Marriott who suggested that Stirling should make himself scarce for a while and recommended him to Brigadier Denys Reid . |
| 14 | Transactions of this kind must make us pause before we condemn all landlords as Gradgrinds , or make too large assumptions about the nature of medieval serfdom . |
| 15 | All Certified Weighers should make themselves familiar with Section 20 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 , which is attached . |
| 16 | In the lift to his floor he thought how odd it was that taking a firm stand should make him feel so bad-tempered . |
| 17 | Erm peacocks ' tails may make them beautiful and more reproductively successful with peahens , but they do n't make them fitter in terms of erm life expectancy . |
| 18 | The result may make your day , or break it . |
| 19 | John Wilson , director of the British Fashion Council , agrees — although he hopes Government action may make it unnecessary . |
| 20 | A recent bereavement may make it impossible for a participant in a drama class to join in a drama about the Plague of London or the death of Cordelia . |
| 21 | Your long-term goals may make it worth sacrificing your two weeks in Turkey for a training course . |
| 22 | But the degree of frustration over IBM 's continued non-performance may make it too late for such half measures , leaving break-up of IBM into more manageable units the only option . |
| 23 | Of course night calls are usually made in a crisis and the help normally available in residential homes may make it easier to cope with a minor one without calling out a doctor . |
| 24 | Political considerations may make it unlikely , even inconceivable that Parliament might legislate in a particular manner . |
| 25 | It should be thrown out and the electorate should make their views known at a general election so that the Government can come back with a better Bill at a later stage . ’ |
| 26 | However , the lawmakers must make their philosophy clear to their custodians of Law for the youth game to gain the full benefits . |
| 27 | Though at times the verse is technically imperfect , it is full of passages of quite stunning beauty ; and the overall conception must make it , though unfinished , one of the most remarkable poems written in English in the twentieth century . |
| 28 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that there is widespread support among parents for the Government 's proposal that schools should make their public examination results available for publication in common form ? |
| 29 | The effects of the international division of labour should make it easier for workers in these countries to discard their role of real or supposed world labour aristocracy and recognise that their fate on the world labour market is inseparably linked with that of their fellow workers in the underdeveloped countries . |
| 30 | For both companies and individuals a new requirement is introduced for deeds : that the instrument must make it clear ‘ on its face ’ that it is intended to be a deed . |