Example sentences of "can make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ornamental cabbages can make a lovely late display , and they adore heavy soil . |
| 2 | Crossing the boundary , I always check the airspeed because I know that above 60 knots , if necessary , I can make a well banked turn of up to 180° , with virtually no loss of height and return for a downwind landing . |
| 3 | A simple grab rail placed in the correct place can make a considerable difference to how you cope , especially with the bath or toilet . |
| 4 | Community transport schemes organised by voluntary schemes can make a valuable contribution , particularly in areas where appropriate public transport is not easily available . |
| 5 | They know that just one small slip can make a joke in dance . |
| 6 | You can make a simple , stable frequency-shift-keying ( FSK ) generator by adding an exclusive- OR gate to a standard cmos oscillator . |
| 7 | Ryan represents a kind of Marxism that non-Marxists might do business with , in the sense that one can make a rational engagement with it . |
| 8 | He said the debacle had been very important in Czechoslovakia : it had shown that ‘ people can make a difference ’ . |
| 9 | He highlighted a classic phrase by Peter Jennings , ABC 's anchor-man wrinkle-brow : ‘ Using it even once can make a person crave cocaine for as long as they ( sic ) live . ’ |
| 10 | They may also be able to tell you some of the preferences of those councillors , which can make a big difference to how you lobby them . |
| 11 | How I can make a start cleaning up Clapham High Street I would like to know . |
| 12 | If you take your music seriously and arouse the interest of a committed writer , the resulting article can make a genuine contribution to people 's understanding of your work and of popular culture in general . |
| 13 | An act can make a successful first LP which may have taken five or seven years for a band 's songwriters to create . |
| 14 | Here is a most revealing instance of the way a difference within the same , teleologically construed , can make a great deal of difference : in effect a difference of degree can be as real as a difference of kind but in a different way : the lesser is inferior and thereby inimical in a way the antithetical can not be , and the same becomes more ditferent than difference itself . |
| 15 | We talked about how fast you can make a 1.1 MkII Escort run when it 's only firing on three cylinders and how to make it run on three cylinders when it wants to run on just two . |
| 16 | An Ammunition Technical Officer ( ATO ) donning his equipment on the site of a suspected Improvised explosive Device ( IED ) — Army terminology for a terrorist bomb — so that he can make a close inspection of the device if necessary |
| 17 | These items are kept locked away as essences can make a lethal cocktail and yeast can be used to make hooch , an illicit drink . |
| 18 | But even a small donation can make a big difference to one child 's life . |
| 19 | Given that microcomputer power costs a tenth of the price of minicomputer power , while minicomputer power costs a tenth of the price of mainframe power , a small shift in this direction can make a dramatic difference to revenues . |
| 20 | ‘ If you can make a film that makes its money back , you can justify making another . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I think they can make a much more plausible case for this than the invasion of Grenada [ in 1983 ] or the Dominican Republic in the Sixties , ’ said an American university law professor , Mr Robert Goldman . |
| 22 | The right choice of carpet can transform any room , for it can make a small room appear more spacious , a large room seem cosier , and a cool room warmer . |
| 23 | The dream that two ‘ half-a-persons ’ can make a whole , fit ‘ hand in glove ’ . |
| 24 | and remember — when you 're adolescent you can make a lot of trouble for yourself . ’ |
| 25 | Because devaluation can cut labour costs , it can make a loss-making enterprise profitable . |
| 26 | He has found several different types of Anomalocaris ; from studying the whole lot , he thinks he can make a case for saying that it belongs with the arthropods , not out on its own . |
| 27 | It can mean employee share-ownership schemes , especially if companies are small enough for workers to feel they can make a difference . |
| 28 | There are a few exceptions to the general rule that no one can make a transfer of goods who is not the owner . |
| 29 | Sure , he is told , steady travel can make a person feel like that for an instant ; yet it is obvious that short-term memory for him is like a labyrinth . |
| 30 | But we do pledge ourselves to undertake the task with energy and determination , confident that in the full-time life of our Parliament we can make a great advance in industrial prosperity . |