Example sentences of "be [adj] to make [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pollitt points out that many managers do not agree but have not been disposed to make an issue over it so far . |
| 2 | It is also a practical answer to the difficulties of continuing to maintain and staff isolated institutions in an age when few people are prepared to make a career in residential work . |
| 3 | ‘ Had we replied in the affirmative , he would clearly have been prepared to make the attempt … ’ |
| 4 | For my part I would not have been prepared to make an order in the terms proposed unless I knew that the letter was written by or with the direct authority of either the Director of Public Prosecutions or the Director of the Serious Fraud Office . |
| 5 | my Lord , my Lord erm my Lord that really brings me to what are , er my conclusions , my Lord erm , can I just practice my conclusions with two erm comments , first of all about the , the my learned friend seems to paint erm in relation to this of course Mr made a point quite strongly that he agrees this is a relevant consideration and that er have exaggerated the situation and if they are willing to make a point a like this it would require evidence , they did point to their accounts , Lord erm I do n't see to put in evidence , but the , the statutory statement of business served er filed by on the first of September this year with the D T I , revealed that has a total of sixteen and a half billion in it 's members premium trust funds which is up four billion from the end of the previous year , erm , set against that the claims now made against the names is , is relatively speaking er small , erm my Lord |
| 6 | ‘ I should n't think there have been any shortage of women in your life who would have been delighted to make a home for you anywhere in the world ! ’ she told him waspishly , disliking the way he was making her feel a little sorry for him . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're enough to make a saint lose her temper , ’ Robbie told him , trying vainly to escape his hold . |
| 8 | Sorry we sha n't be able to call for you when we 're ready to make the arrest . |
| 9 | ‘ Be careful , Your Highness , or you 're liable to make a spectacle of yourself . ’ |
| 10 | In this way , it is often possible for organisations to get a clearer idea as to which potential expatriate couples are likely to make a success of their assignments overseas . |
| 11 | You are likely to make a success of meetings by recognising when others are using tactics such as these . |
| 12 | You are likely to make a mess of it , lose your To Do list or confront people in an attacking rather than a rational way . |
| 13 | At the beginning of a career , any band 's tours are likely to make a loss . |
| 14 | In reading this short passage we are likely to make an assumption : that when someone makes breakfast , it is eaten . |
| 15 | If the development of HDMAC and Divine continues on schedule , they are likely to make an impact on the market at around the same time , probably making HDMAC redundant from the word go . |
| 16 | Now as part of all this , the Centre is responsible for almost all the public lectures in the university , and we have been glad to make the open to the public at large , and therefore a very special welcome to those of you who have come in from outside . |
| 17 | But the Football Association are unlikely to make a decision on his three-year reign until they return from the trip to America , and they may delay until the FA summer meeting in Bournemouth on June 26 . |
| 18 | In this case , however , I have been unable to make the separation and the fieldwork is both empirical and continuous ; it is diachronic and retrospective , taking in the historical with the contemporary . |
| 19 | Congressmen are reluctant to make a defence cut that might pain them in their own districts . |
| 20 | The victims of harassment are reluctant to make a complaint for a number of reasons . |
| 21 | If by chance you have already visited Craigendarroch under the terms of this special invitation , I very much regret that we are unable to make the offer a second time . |
| 22 | Additionally , human readers are able to make a multitude of inferences about the sentences within a discourse . |
| 23 | Powerful actors , especially , are able to make a difference to things ; for example King Louis XV 's lasciviousness made him indulgent toward Madame de Pompa-dour , who was therefore able to protect the position of the incompetent General Soubise in spite of the fact that his army was unreliable in defending France 's military interests . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , of course we 'd have carried on if we 'd been able to make a living at it . |
| 25 | But seriously , there is something of a revival just like everywhere else at the moment , although blues has always had a strong following in Australia — that 's why I 've been able to make a living all these years . |
| 26 | The fact that he had been able to make the journey across the Atlantic meant that life was at last reverting to its customary shape . |
| 27 | It 's thanks to a hefty sponsorship package from Village Homes that he has been able to make the move after only one full season of FF1600 racing in Ireland . |
| 28 | However , it may be possible to make a case for a higher proportion of grant aid if the resources available are very limited . |
| 29 | Where such expenditure is a new cost incurred through Compact it may be possible to make a case to the Training Agency . |
| 30 | Since the example taken was entirely at random and 292 is a statistically significant proportion of the total number of libraries , it may be possible to make a hypothesis on the basis of this graph . |