Example sentences of "make out [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If undue influence in the full sense is not made out but the element of pressure , surprise , misrepresentation or some or one of them combine with or cause a misunderstanding or failure to understand the documents or transaction , the final question must be whether the grounds upon which the creditor believed that the document was fairly obtained and executed by a woman sufficiently understanding its purport and effect were such that it would be inequitable to fix the creditor with the consequences of the husband 's improper or unfair dealing with his wife . |
| 2 | The charge of political bias laid at the door of critics , and the claim that their own scientific activities were neutral , leaves only one way out — to make out that the problem lies in technical factors of production that constrain maximum yield performance in maize , and not in the interrelationship between social conditions of inequality and the new technologies which CIMMYT and IRRI were developing . |
| 3 | The hon. Member has been trying to make out that the Government have been putting profits , the success of BT and the shareholder interest before our policy . |
| 4 | Martinho encouraged him in this opinion-he liked to make out that the organisation had been moderate until hijacked by extremists who believed in violence . |
| 5 | Next day and the day after that Mr Flemyng rode his horse along the slope south of the town , as though to exercise his dogs , and looked down at the site through an opera-glass , trying to make out whether the workmen were forming a mob . |