Example sentences of "could [adv] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we could perhaps make a case for offering curatorial protection to artefactual software by regarding it as part of the contextual and functional extension of hardware without which technical history would be incomplete . |
| 2 | It may sound priggish , but she says it 's unwise to go against one 's nature , its fundamental requirements , she knew that she could only make a go of it , a real go — and that was what she wanted — with some very extraordinary kind of man , and she had n't met him yet . |
| 3 | If BR could not make a case for seven trains for one of its most profitable routes , it was clear that plans for a second tranche of HSTs for the Cross Country group of services would not satisfy the new criteria . |
| 4 | The Court acknowledged that the Registry could not make a decision binding upon it in its judicial capacity . |
| 5 | Even HARPY , which brought its full syntactic and semantic knowledge to bear immediately , could not make a decision on a word-by-word basis . |
| 6 | She thought it dry , and it was , but she could not make a dent in the downpour itself . |
| 7 | Eventually she found them but could n't get near — the crowds were as dense further up and , push as she might , she could not make a parting for herself . |
| 8 | The Powderhall stadium in Edinburgh was the top venue for professional athletics , though competitors could not make a living by running alone . |
| 9 | A CHIMPANZEE financial whizzkid that has beaten stock market experts could not make a monkey of British share analysts yesterday . |
| 10 | Does Article 37 mean that they could not make a claim to terminate the right on this ground ? |
| 11 | Taplow 's lips continued to move though his throat was so scorched he could not make a sound . |
| 12 | I once left a message on a colleague 's answering machine saying that someone else could not make a meeting because she had resigned . |
| 13 | Chairman I I wonder whether I could just make a sort of general statement from the department 's view before we go on to a particular issue if I may . |
| 14 | Of course , it is not necessary to press the actual flowers from the birthday celebration itself , as one could just make a picture for the eighteen-year old as a present . |
| 15 | If I could just make a point about affordable housing chairman , of course the department recognizes that there is a problem of affordable housing as evidenced by minister 's statements but the view of my policy colleagues in headquarters is that this is most appropriately addresses in district wide plans and not necessarily at structure plan level . |
| 16 | ‘ Unix is not open , only ajar ’ , Harold Mead of Metron Data told delegates during a talk on capacity planning , going on to describe in detail how , despite the fact that while data for performance measurement and capacity planning is available from Unix through utilities such as sar , ps , mpstat ( on some multi-processors ) , acctcom and last , data was often presented with different formats and content that could easily make a nonsense of the figures . |
| 17 | And you could easily make a mistake with the work , you get all worked up . |
| 18 | Well , she 's young yet , she thought , and that leg of his was so far forward the mare could easily make a mistake . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's been such a long time , and I want you so much that I could easily make a mess of this , ’ he confessed . |
| 20 | Someone could easily make a fire in there . |
| 21 | Dead Lucky was struggling to stay in touch , but he was still there nonetheless , and if she just pushed her way out , Damien could easily make a show of snatching up . |
| 22 | The whiskers were too small to see with the naked eye and nobody could possibly make a testing machine on that scale . |
| 23 | You could always make a splash at your local pool . |
| 24 | ‘ We could always make a start , ’ Southgate quipped . |
| 25 | Many of them go on to wonder if they could ever make a marriage . |
| 26 | I was just about to say I expect you could really make a mess if you tried and then I realized I was covered in and I 'd better shut up . |
| 27 | Carole had said that the style of warden could really make a difference , and I was relieved to see that Aj was far too easy-going to be a slave-driver ; a non-conformist , his regulation chocolate-brown corduroy trousers were bleached white , a phenomenon which he put down to the use of Ariel automatic . |
| 28 | ‘ We wanted to find out where this money could really make a difference and were excited by what we saw . ’ |
| 29 | Now today … but aside from the cost I could n't make a suit like that today : I could n't get the material . |
| 30 | I , for one , could n't make a 10in bowl in 45 minutes — at least , not one with which I would be satisfied . |