Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why everyone should make a will |
| 2 | SO YOU THINK someone should make a film about your life ? |
| 3 | So you still think someone should make a film about your life ? |
| 4 | ‘ Someone must make a hole in the sheep 's side , ’ explained Billy , ‘ with a special tool . |
| 5 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 6 | Somebody ought to make a rule . |
| 7 | Well it 's to be all really that somebody can make a use of these things in n it ? |
| 8 | Judd Lander , head of Chrysalis Records Promotions Dept , and prime mover behind this trip says , ‘ We wanted to hire the European Parliament building but there was too much bureaucracy involved and , in the end , no-one could make a decision . |
| 9 | One may make a comparison here with his attitude towards the poor ; for one could evidently make out a case that , in relation to the poor , he preached the need for revolution . |
| 10 | Market one should make a market test after the prototype has been developed in order to study the need beyond that implied in the original concept |
| 11 | Where changing something could make a difference , and seems unlikely to do harm , we should go ahead and do it . |
| 12 | I think for me I love erm er er er I love a challenge , and er I suspect the fact that before I went into it people said it was erm something which was erm absolutely impossible er er and that the their was no way that one could make a go of it erm made it made it made it perhaps all the more challenging to try to prove them wrong . |
| 13 | One could make a case that the women 's conversation is more logical than the men 's . |
| 14 | If it were not , one could make a killing on the stock exchange by having a computer that would remember tomorrow 's prices ! |
| 15 | There are a few exceptions to the general rule that no one can make a transfer of goods who is not the owner . |
| 16 | ‘ Nowadays , ’ observed Bromley , ‘ one can make a corpse look almost alive . ’ |
| 17 | In stratigraphy One is always using one ruler to measure another and one can only call a deposit exceptional if we have something more " normal " with which one can make a comparison . |
| 18 | So no one can make a fuss . |
| 19 | Erm , the rule of evidence is that it is inherently unlikely that anybody would make a statement against their own interest unless it was true . |
| 20 | ‘ Anybody can make a mistake . |
| 21 | If anybody can make a comeback , he will — and I 'm not one of his great admirers . ’ |
| 22 | Ali was shocked that anyone could make a mistake so gross . |
| 23 | She turned back to her hostess to confide , ‘ My brother 's living in India , ’ and quickly , before anyone could make a meal of that , she laid a possessive hand on Naylor 's and queried , ‘ Did you never think of entering the wine-importing business , darling ? ’ |
| 24 | It followed a lovely move ; Shaun Strang sent Loughran galloping down the right , his cross appeared to be handled by Blues ' defender John McConnell but before anyone could make a protest about it Manley drove the ball into the corner of the net past Wesley Lamont . |
| 25 | I do n't think anyone will make a fortune by patenting them as a method of space travel , but they have become a very exciting area of research . |
| 26 | ANYONE can make a mistake , so it would be unfair , would n't it , to poke fun at someone who wrote Advisory Committee on Pollution of the Sea ( instead of Protection of the Sea ) . |
| 27 | By ‘ Anyone Can Make A Mistake ’ , Red Rhino were taking out quarter-page advertisements in the music papers to plug their brightest hopes . |
| 28 | ‘ Anyone Can Make A Mistake ’ , featuring backing vocals from Tallulah Gosh 's Amelia Fletcher , shuffled along in a fine pop style but , for once , the reviews were very unflattering . |
| 29 | The other placings were ‘ My Favourite Dress ’ ( six ) , ‘ A Million Miles ’ ( eight ) , ‘ Anyone Can Make A Mistake ’ ( 10 ) and ‘ Getting Nowhere Fast ’ ( 31 ) . |
| 30 | Only this time she was able to tell herself that ‘ Anyone can make a mistake ’ and that these two nurses were , in fact , wrong in their hasty prognosis . |