Example sentences of "but we [modal v] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above her head Silas murmured , ‘ I 'll admit I 've been slow — but we 'll make up for it later , my dearest . ’ |
| 2 | But we might make a mistake with the title and someone . |
| 3 | One does not usually bother to mention it , but we shall make it explicit this time . |
| 4 | How and where you set up your Storage Directories is entirely a matter of personal preference ( and system restrictions ! ) , but we would make two VERY strong recommendations , as follows : |
| 5 | No cause of death is given , but we may make an informed guess , for all that , that a man whose elder brother had been carried off by consumption was himself the victim of that ‘ white plague ’ which accounted for one-third of all deaths in the early years of the 19th century . |
| 6 | But we must make sure our party and policies are geared to Britain 's needs in the late 1990s and the new century to come . |
| 7 | ‘ But we must make a plan . |
| 8 | Obviously this is the experience of some children but we must make sure it is the experience and entitlement of every child in this country . ’ |
| 9 | I have considerable respect and sympathy for my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Grantham ( Mr. Hogg ) , but we must make further efforts , even if some risk is attached , or the present conflict will spread to Bosnia and other parts of Yugoslavia and perhaps beyond that to other countries . |
| 10 | Sure , we would like to have everyone available but we must make the very best use of what we have . |
| 11 | For most men the interior light of the mind is dark as in a black and white picture but we can make the dawns rise and colours come as in a coloured picture . |
| 12 | No , but we can make an effort , can we not , to persuade our European colleagues to join us in that . |
| 13 | You see we can not always help who our brothers and sisters are but we can make alliances of people on issues of liberation and freedom that goes beyond that narrow family relationship and develops into a very solid alliance that helps to change situations . |
| 14 | But we can make her look part of the magic theme . |
| 15 | Er but we can make a reasonable margin including spacers . |
| 16 | ‘ True , we do n't , not all of it , but we can make things difficult for you — ’ |
| 17 | He said : ‘ We ca n't jam the signals but we can make the advertising and sale of decoders illegal after this date . ’ |
| 18 | Nor will we win the war , but we will make progress . |
| 19 | But we will make much better use of the medium if we seek to use it differently and for different reasons . |
| 20 | We were a large family of seven and my father worked on the railway and he only had two pounds a week , but we could make three pounds and ten shillings just at the weekend by working the clubs . |
| 21 | ‘ We always figured we could n't afford ads , but we could make a lot of noise ’ , says Miles . |
| 22 | The subtle effects of centuries of propaganda will not be easily overcome , but we could make a start by looking more honestly at the reality of war and stop being blinded by the glamour . |