Example sentences of "[modal v] make the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To quote Laura Mitchel — ‘ We spend our lives wanting to be mature , well , now we are so let's make the most of it . |
| 2 | What I hope — very much hope — is that you , after consideration , may make the same choice . |
| 3 | PENNY HASSET * , who showed marked improvement when encountering heavy ground for the first time at Wolverhampton recently , should make the most of similar conditions on her return to the course for today 's Daffodil Handicap ( 5.0 ) . |
| 4 | YOU should make the most of this year because when Saturn lands in your opposite sign next year , you want to be in as strong a position as possible . |
| 5 | BRICKS AND MORTGAGES Homebuyers should make the most of their freedom to tailor a mortgage to suit their needs |
| 6 | The thin , pink stalks do n't look all that exciting , but you should make the most of its fresh flavour . |
| 7 | Of course , I ca n't pretend that this evening can compete with the delights of your date last night , but as it 's our last evening here you should make the most of it — without the continental touch . ’ |
| 8 | A developing industry in South Shropshire is tourism , and the County Council is concerned that we should make the most of it . |
| 9 | I really do feel that erm it 's a success that should be , it should be , we should make the most of it , we should public it , publicise it , erm , wherever we can . |
| 10 | But even if Flaubert had described himself as a lethargic meliorist , I should make the same point : what a curious vanity it is of the present to expect the past to suck up to it . |
| 11 | So Bedford must make the most of limited resources — and pray . |
| 12 | After he leave school he had set up some sort of agricultural commune thing , he was always a man like that , saying we were people must make the most of we community skills and thing , but he get squeeze in that farming business and last I hear of him he had gone in the hills and become a guerrilla . |
| 13 | Conscious that she must make the most of these last weeks , and grateful for all the happiness and love which she had enjoyed in childhood , she was nevertheless eager for the days to pass and for the news to come that João had arrived from Lisbon to collect his bride . |
| 14 | ‘ Then we must make the most of it , ’ she said briskly . |
| 15 | ‘ Then we must make the most of her . |
| 16 | No , I think it 's er fair that the government er must make the most of its assets . |
| 17 | The ‘ believer at second hand ’ , the one who believes through having heard the witness of those who believed ‘ at first hand ’ , i.e. the original disciples , must make the same leap of faith as they did to break through Jesus ' incognito : they have no advantage over him of the kind that a purely historical approach to Jesus might suggest . |
| 18 | The principle of universalizability tells us , then , that in the absence of an available difference we must make the same judgement again . |
| 19 | During a match when a player goes down injured he must make the same decision but this time in the thick of the action with the crowd chanting and the referee looking at his watch . |
| 20 | At the weekend er I thought , I 'll make the most of the er the weather , because Saturday we 'd got er showers forecast from about lunchtime . |
| 21 | I do n't think we 'll make the same mistakes again . ’ |
| 22 | You see , I kept blaming you for everything , but that was n't fair , a lot of it was my fault too , and I might make the same mistakes all over again , and I could n't bear that . |
| 23 | Usually , he 'd make the most of it . |
| 24 | ‘ But , if I know him , you wo n't remain so charmingly ingenuous for long , so I 'd make the most of it if I were you . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | My mother was a cook who could make the most of three-pennyworth of meat pieces to enrich my father 's vegetables . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |