Example sentences of "[noun sg] could make [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My guess is that the bozo could make a half-headed attempt to chase after the car , but more likely he will not . |
| 2 | If you base yourself in Kinlochleven and use the popular campsite in the glen for an overnight stop , the circuit could make a rewarding introduction to the rigours of backpacking in this Highland region . |
| 3 | But we suspect it was found necessary to place the Monkeys ' Dance where the score has it in order to allow time for setting this exotic scene — and six dancers cavorting about on the forestage could make a useful amount of noise to mask what was happening on the darkened scenic stage behind the proscenium arch . |
| 4 | and Central South could make a clean sweep in the Gold Cup meeting … the going will be good tomorrow … the first big race is the Champion Hurdle … |
| 5 | Companies are under no obligation to do so but , for those people lucky enough to work for an organisation willing to amend its pension scheme rules accordingly , this new provision could make an immense difference to the financial position of early retirees . |
| 6 | The original auteur theory sought to explain how a director could make a distinctive body of work within a filmmaking system , the Hollywood studios , whose factory-like production processes seemed designed to crush out individuality . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although technology to reduce pollution could make a significant contribution to the problem , the industry showed ‘ minimal ’ commitment to innovation , research and development , it said . |
| 9 | The girl 's father could make no further objection , so the two of them were married directly , and went to live in the forest . |
| 10 | He believed that the PASOK movement could make a real contribution to European as well as Greek politics , but after serving as education minister in Papandreou 's second administration ( when he tried to reintroduce classical Greek into the school curriculum ) , he left to found his own ill-starred party , the Greek Radical Movement . |
| 11 | Closing the Park to through traffic could make a significant contribution in this direction . |
| 12 | It was simply a question , Fred declared , of having ‘ a nose for news ’ and added that only a competent reporter could make a good story out of unlikely ingredients . |
| 13 | By such a mechanism , in which family ties played an important part , a relatively rapid ascent was opened up for the younger sons of the prosperous Catalan farmers who must leave the farm to the chosen heir ( the hereu ) ; within a generation a man could make a modest fortune , exposed to the risk of loss as well as the hope of gain . |
| 14 | Money released on that scale could make a vital contribution to closing a gap of about £3 billion a year in investment in affordable , rented accommodation over Britain as a whole , the report states . |
| 15 | And once we take notice that in reality individual holdings in companies , other than in exceptional cases , give the holder negligible rights of control it becomes clear that ownership of corporate property could make no distinctive contribution to the realisation of whatever individual interests might be specified . |
| 16 | For example , if one bank has excess cash and another a shortage of cash , the first bank could make a short-term loan to the second . |
| 17 | Even without a Commons majority , Labour 's Jack Straw could make a considerable mark . |
| 18 | Sugar said that the PDA was certainly not a blockbuster by the standards of the early personal computer market when the company could make a clear £300 on each machine sold : he put the total size of the UK electronic organiser market at around 200,000 units . |
| 19 | However , if the determined Mr Welch gets his way , building the boundary-less company could make the 1990s just as traumatic . |
| 20 | The bat 's brain " knows " the direction of flapping of each ear , and in principle could make the necessary calculations to exploit the information . |
| 21 | Kenneth Baker indicated recently that he thinks such a plan should go ahead ; if he can persuade his government colleagues that the scheme could make a real contribution to economic growth it could start up by the Spring . |
| 22 | The conclusion must be that it could , only if there had have been genuine prospects that an improved , amalgamated and better managed canal system could make a viable contribution to an efficient transport system of the country . |
| 23 | A false report of theft could be made to a next-door neighbour , perhaps to cover up for dealing with property wrongfully , and then the neighbour could make a genuine report to the police about the false theft , thereby causing police time to be wasted . |
| 24 | But nevertheless if it were handled properly the high-yielding seeds of African maize , upland rice and cassava which are on the way could make a real difference . |
| 25 | The philanthropic General Oglethorpe intended it initially as a place where people released from debtors ' prison could make a fresh start in life . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Two examples are given here to illustrate how socially useful design could make a fuller and more creative use of new technologies . |
| 28 | No one had suggested nuclear power could make the dominant contribution . |