Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [modal v] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over on the other side they could make out the chimney of the paper works among rising woods . |
| 2 | To the ordinary reader advertisements may count for nothing ; but to the bookseller and book-collector they can make the difference between £50 and £500 . |
| 3 | We have to trust the districts can trust the county the county can trust the districts and that in practice they would make this work at local plan level . |
| 4 | She said I think in practice they will make considerable input in the care of their daughter , not necessarily with the heavy physical work of care . |
| 5 | Everything 's insured but just thing the mess they could make . |
| 6 | However , once divisions are given some independence they may make decisions that are not in the best interests of the group as a whole . |
| 7 | If teachers did not intend to patronize the Dinner Dance they should make their feelings known in advance . |
| 8 | History argues that when Arabs and Israelis do not make peace they will make war : there have already been five and a half since Israel 's founding . |
| 9 | Erm just difference they would make to the price . |
| 10 | And God knows what sort of a mishmash they 'll make of it . |
| 11 | The Baden region is well to the south of Germany 's more famous wine areas , and so receives far more sunshine , giving the growers greater flexibility in what kinds of wine they can make . |
| 12 | From their room they can make UK or international calls at rates set by the hotelier , enabling recovery of the cost of the call , together with a service charge . |
| 13 | One day they 'll make a big killing , quit the rackets and settle down to a respectable life in a new town . |
| 14 | If you make a mistake , it 's just not possible to go back and retrieve it , and for a selector to say , ‘ Well , I do n't think this person 's made a very good case , I 'm sure if we gave them another chance they would make a better one . ’ |
| 15 | When tenants take on a lease they may make extensive alterations to the premises in order to make them better suited to the type of catering enterprise they intend to undertake . |
| 16 | It is also used together with any supplemental information to determine the terms and quantum of any indicative offer they may make . |
| 17 | With their dense sprawling foliage they can make ideal ground cover plants for larger areas , and can also be allowed to hang in swags over banks and terraces . |
| 18 | We usually gained our ends by astute and almost instinctive creation of alliances , for which we provided leadership , and small but professional military forces that were sought by friends and feared by foes for the impact they could make upon contemporary balances of power . |
| 19 | ( 6 ) that the spending plans should be realistic in the impact they will make in any particular curriculum area ( e.g that the money should not be so thinly spread across departments as to be unlikely to influence significantly the work of any one of them ) |
| 20 | As community organizers know , change best occurs when people choose short-term winnable goals which build their belief they can make a difference and which can alter the balance of power , ( i.e. after this action , the youth group becomes a recognized force in the community ) . |
| 21 | Eventually they may grow to like each other , especially if there is some other link they can make with each other such as matching colour . |
| 22 | In the afternoon they would make love , with the great windows open to the sky , and a hot , heavy summer rain falling , crushing the flowers and filling the air with the scent of roses … |
| 23 | ‘ There are stars I have simply not brought to Highbury because they have been more concerned with the money they could make rather than what they could achieve for Arsenal . ’ |
| 24 | They can calculate not only how much business I 'm doing but exactly how much money they will make on each piece of business . |
| 25 | I can see that in such a case they might make a gift of paintings or other works of art for tax reasons , for example , and would n't care if they were sold or not . |
| 26 | Or between wife and husband , we tend to think only of transfer from husbands to wife , but er we do meet quite er a w er ladies who 've got quite high earnings and they themselves are paying forty percent in which case they should make sure that any investment income of theirs is transferred to the husband , so as to get the , to either use up allowances that are not being used at all because of absence of the income , or to benefit from these different rates of tax . |
| 27 | And the noise they would make as well — it was driving me crazy . |
| 28 | These villagers — of course they would make it their business to know anyone who was rich and whose father lived so near ! |
| 29 | Bill Mumford says of course they will make it … they would not be going if they did not think they could do it … they have been well prepared … |
| 30 | Some experts claim the difference may be as much as 15 per cent , but producers in Austria--which leads the rest of Europe in RME use--claim they can make RME for the same price as diesel . |