Example sentences of "may make " in BNC.
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| 1 | OK — when you 're in a dazed state , drugs may make you think you understand it all . |
| 2 | The minimum donation which an individual can make under the Gift Aid is £600. the total donations which an individual may make under Gift Aid in any tax year must not exceed £5,000,000 . |
| 3 | Teachers of art are more likely to write books of instruction , and in their efforts to educate their students may make comments about the traditions they admire and from which they hope their students will learn . |
| 4 | But one feature of a catalogue of an exhibition for a living artist which is different is the likely inclusion of reminiscences from colleagues and members of the artist 's family , who may make enlightening comments . |
| 5 | When you start there is a sense in which everything you do is right , there is no clear sense of wrong , though of course it is here that you may make the inevitable false move , take the inevitable wrong turning . |
| 6 | Whereas in the air pilots may make good decisions and behave responsibly , on the ground they may feel that each move is being watched and criticised by the other members . |
| 7 | This is particularly dangerous because the weight and drag of the second cable may make it difficult to get the nose down . |
| 8 | Whatever we may make of this , it is interesting to observe that Professor Hartman of New York has established a link between those who suffer from this nocturnal disposition and a high level of creativity . |
| 9 | Whatever we may make of its influences , Leonard is clear that he ‘ never recovered ’ from its dénouements ; its ‘ illumination of human behaviour ’ ; its horror ( which he termed ‘ metaphorical ’ ) . |
| 10 | Whatever we may make of Leonard 's Judaism , he is a man seized by its traditions , its scriptures and their imagery . |
| 11 | I think it proper to give this caution , that future ramblers may make choice of which road they please . |
| 12 | In many cases they are actually simpler since a complete instruction is executed in a single machine cycle unlike a microprocessor which may make several memory access when executing a single instruction . |
| 13 | The real problem is that the writers of such texts may make political difficulties within a department , or teach in ways difficult for students to understand . |
| 14 | Joyful reunion may make South African history : Albertina Sisulu and Nelson Mandela talked of old times and new strategy , she told John Carlin at her home in Soweto |
| 15 | To know someone to be a gouger gives some policemen and women cause to believe that they have the excuse to ignore the minor requests for assistance that the person may make , and for his or her minor infringements of the law to be taken seriously . |
| 16 | In either case a company 's growth objectives may make foreign markets very attractive . |
| 17 | Regulatory threat , which may make the domestic market less attractive . |
| 18 | Satellite television stations under the control of press barons and modelled on the tabloid press may make inaction even more indefensible . |
| 19 | When an act becomes more established , or if it is a new band with good management and someone who knows the business , the agent may make a 10 per cent deal — the standard commission rate . |
| 20 | Do not take a large supper which may make sleep difficult immediately afterwards . |
| 21 | What I hope — very much hope — is that you , after consideration , may make the same choice . |
| 22 | He makes his fencing debut in the Halloween Novice Chase but has a useful opponent in Young Snugfit ( 2.00 ) , who may make experience tell , having jumped well and quickened impressively to beat Brave Defender by ten lengths at Kempton last month . |
| 23 | The bill 's first clause simply states : ‘ The Secretary of State may make arrangements for enabling eligible students to receive loans towards their maintenance out of money made available by him for that purpose . ’ |
| 24 | In some cases this may make the prospect of an award less attractive . |
| 25 | But this , it is claimed , may make them more vulnerable than most to negative emotions when they are shown to be powerless . |
| 26 | In some cases this may make the prospect of an award less attractive . |
| 27 | To say , as Mr Hibbert did , that statisticians can not publicly dispute any misleading use politicians may make of official information is a weaselly argument . |
| 28 | In some cases this may make the prospect of an award less attractive . |
| 29 | The great warrior Arjuna has battlefield doubts whether he may make war on his own kin , and his mentor Krishna tells him victory and defeat are the same , and he must fight without desire . |
| 30 | Christmas time , when party-giving is on the whole overdone , may make the social aridity of the rest of the year seem almost attractive , but this exhausting seasonal overswill also points up the ordinary isolation that obtains for most of us nowadays . |