Example sentences of "could make the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , in the main , the teachers were well satisfied that they could make the new arrangements work to the advantage of the students . |
| 2 | Hitler 's policy was clever : to keep Romania and Hungary in competition with each other to see which could make the greater territorial gains . |
| 3 | The young man 's brother wrote to Lord Panmure to see if David could make the best of the situation in which he found himself by obtaining a midshipman 's place . |
| 4 | As a member of one of the two departments into which the direction politique of the foreign ministry was then divided , he found that he and his colleagues spent much of their time playing draughts and that there was considerable rivalry between the two as to which could make the better " five o'clock tea " . |
| 5 | The availability of similar speeds across the network could make the future remote facilities as intuitive and supportive as if they were all on the user 's desktop . |
| 6 | ‘ If they are tempted to play the nationalist card to ensure their re-election and counter the far right Republicans , that could make the Soviet Union very uneasy indeed , ’ he went on . |
| 7 | If we know the extent to which changes in local spending affect savings and if government has some indication of the level of overall local spending during the coming year , it could make the appropriate adjustments to overall policy . |
| 8 | " I thought you would like to be informed of my intention , so that you could — could make the necessary preparations . " |
| 9 | The bat 's brain " knows " the direction of flapping of each ear , and in principle could make the necessary calculations to exploit the information . |
| 10 | EUROPEAN COMMUNITY finance ministers meet in Brussels today to seek a way out of the impasse over harmonisation of VAT and excise duty rates which , if unresolved , could make the 1992 single market unworkable . |
| 11 | Olive Fitzpatrick suffers with Alzheimer 's disease and went into a nursing home so her 72year-old husband could make the ill-fated trip to America with their son Liam . |
| 12 | He rang Davidson to confirm that he could make the eight a. m. appointment . |
| 13 | This means they will not stick to each other , which could make the composite useful as a high-definition toner for colour photocopying machines . |
| 14 | However , if the determined Mr Welch gets his way , building the boundary-less company could make the 1990s just as traumatic . |
| 15 | After his long , slow climb Stoneley had found himself to be a novice at office in-fighting , some examples of which could make the brutal intentions of a common criminal seem almost harmless . |
| 16 | The cattle that survived this vicious circle of pasture depletion were no doubt those that could make the most of small areas of rough grazing and it is likely that small , thrifty cattle were positively selected in preference to larger improved types which needed better feeding . |
| 17 | My mother was a cook who could make the most of three-pennyworth of meat pieces to enrich my father 's vegetables . |
| 18 | First , there were the blue-blooded man-about-town types who had perhaps not — generally speaking — enjoyed the greatest success in their commercial and professional careers , who were restless , and saw executive search as an institutionalised old-boy network , in which they could make the most of their old contacts and make money without the need for major capital investment , and who misguidedly thought that it would be an easy living . |
| 19 | No one had suggested nuclear power could make the dominant contribution . |
| 20 | We could make the same kind of comment about the lyrics : the predictable rhymes ; the clichéd phrases ( ‘ South of the Border ’ , ‘ stars above ’ , ‘ my thoughts stray ’ , ‘ she was a picture ’ , and so on ) . |
| 21 | We could make the same kind of case for clusters of compatible genes building the different parts of eyes , ears , noses , walking limbs , all the cooperating parts of an animal 's body . |
| 22 | While one could make the same use of filters for waveband selection , only Band 7 has been used , since this is the one of greatest interest for the current application . |
| 23 | In this case , you could make the whole picture golden , choosing a gold frame , making the backing from a piece of gold velvet or silk , and then using gold-coloured leaves and flowers for the design itself . |
| 24 | The potential pitfall of this approach is that the Taligent add-ons could make the conventional offerings so attractive as to damage the acceptance of the native product itself . |
| 25 | The potential pitfall of this approach is that the Taligent add-ons could make the conventional offerings so attractive as to damage the acceptance of the native product itself . |
| 26 | The potential pitfall of this approach is that the Taligent add-ons could make the conventional offerings so attractive as to damage the acceptance of the native product itself . |
| 27 | ‘ If we should score early , as the Italians did on Wednesday , that could make the Portuguese wonder about their own capabilities . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If we should score early , as the Italians did on Wednesday , that could make the Portuguese wonder about their own capabilities ’ Craig Brown |
| 29 | ‘ Connie says she wonders a bit about the sort of God who could make the human race and love it . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ We could make the fatal mistake in these next 12 weeks of simply changing personalities . |