Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] make a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapter III will help you to choose a rug suited to your individual needs — you may want to make a worthwhile investment , or simply brighten up your home . |
| 2 | You may need to make an advance payment ( the difference between the total cost of the three year hire for the vehicle selected and the amount of finance available from mobility supplement ) , but for smaller cars there may not be anything to pay . |
| 3 | Divorce also affects your will and you should consider making a new will if you get divorced . |
| 4 | How fortunate you are to have found yet another chance at happiness together , with a better understanding than most people of what you should do to make a successful marriage , and how much you will gain . |
| 5 | As a cyclist myself , I should like to make a personal request : if you should find it necessary to use a tractor-mounted flail hedge trimmer to cut the hedges please could you ensure that the hawthorn clippings are swept up and removed and not left in the road as a danger to cyclists . |
| 6 | But should this approach be followed if a future government should decide to make an across-the-board increase in national insurance rates that is significantly above the increase in prices ? |
| 7 | I remember one time I reported that he had developed a cough and back came a directive that we should try to make an audio recording of it . |
| 8 | It was ironical that he should have made a magical 153 against Notts , while England 's batsmen floundered at Old Trafford . |
| 9 | Secondly , we should have made a moral commitment to the single currency . |
| 10 | It was a strange situation , which must have made a lasting impression on Richard , who was more than usually close to his mother . |
| 11 | Timmy must have made a wrong move , drew attention to himself . ’ |
| 12 | She must have made a huge error in giving change somewhere along the line and she felt defeated . |
| 13 | He must have made a little joke . |
| 14 | The segments of lemon embedded in clear apple jelly must have made a ravishing little dessert dish : |
| 15 | As for the library , the surviving books without a proper building to house them must have made a dismal appearance . |
| 16 | Top of backswing From a good address position your should aim to make a controlled shoulder turn . |
| 17 | Together they must serve to make a consistent and powerful message that comes across with absolute clarity . |
| 18 | That is the meaning of social conscience ; that one should refuse to make a separate peace with social evil . ’ |
| 19 | In the meantime , until this can be achieved , if you are worried that your parent is not receiving proper medical attention you should start to make a polite nuisance of yourself by frequent visits to the surgery to impress upon the doctor the fact that you consider there is real cause for concern about the state of her health and ask if he could arrange for a ‘ second opinion ’ . |
| 20 | We could watch it after we 've eaten , but if you 'd like to see it we 'll need to make an early start . ’ |
| 21 | We auc we auctioned the books after as you know and erm so I I 'll have to make a new list of what 's left and let you have it . |
| 22 | But Jan Peerce makes a very coarse and unromantic Alfredo , and Licia Albanese , who might have made a good shot at the role of Violetta under more sympathetic direction , sounds particularly nervous and unsettled . |
| 23 | Flaubert might have made a similar avowal — ‘ I leave two children , Bouvard and Pécuchet ’ — because his only child , the niece who became a daughter , had departed into disapproving adulthood . |
| 24 | Ken , would you say though that erm one or two recent announcements connected with these judgments , I think including the er the judge in a recent M C C case which actually went I think against the administrators , b on shares but actually the judge said if the argument had been made that er these assets were held er on a trustee basis , then I might have made a different decision . |
| 25 | Thanks very much indeed for your report , Matthew , it 's certainly very informative , and in an ideal world , I think we might have made a different decision today . |
| 26 | Gregory might have made a deliberate choice . |
| 27 | He had a passionate love of music and in another world at another time might have made a fine musician , but there , held in that place at that moment , there were other plans , other duties , other paths . |
| 28 | He might have made a significant contribution to the public life of this country had he not been totally overshadowed by his illustrious father and had he not had such a burning desire to shine as bright or even brighter . |
| 29 | Televising might have made a big impact on proceedings in one other area . |
| 30 | A goal then might have made a big difference . |