Example sentences of "could make [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or you could make a Freudian explanation . |
| 2 | My guess is that the bozo could make a half-headed attempt to chase after the car , but more likely he will not . |
| 3 | However , there are many red flowers that could make a successful choice . |
| 4 | I know of no one who could spare her that , who could make a tasteful picture , but You . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In his reasoning he referred to Augustine 's assertion that God could make a perfect man who would not wish to sin . |
| 7 | Ten years ago I could make a reasonable job of most Shads ' numbers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But I think I could make a good country record . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And Polly always used to say how good Lynn was , reckoned she could make a good career in designer living . |
| 12 | I should think you could make a good living there if you wanted to . |
| 13 | ‘ I have this idea of running a foster home , I think I could make a good job . |
| 14 | ‘ The decided to fight her case for her so she could make a good job of it , ’ Mr Robinson claimed . |
| 15 | Perhaps they could make a new life there together . |
| 16 | It might not matter in the end — Forester fully expected to be traced and caught-but every difficulty and delay that he could strew behind him could make a final difference of hours or even minutes that might determine the distinction between success or failure . |
| 17 | Because you could make a nasty enemy . ’ |
| 18 | IT COULD make a great movie . |
| 19 | Mark , if you think that Strach was looking that far ahead then we should snap him up immediately , as if he is that much of a thinker then he could make a great manager . |
| 20 | Perhaps the development by lay shareholders of the scepticism implied by Mr Smith 's survival techniques could make a substantial contribution to avoiding a repetition of the public shock that attended the corporate failures at the end of the 1980s . |
| 21 | The court decision means the pair , who are only in their twenties , could make a substantial fortune from the device , which enables the user to modify a computer game and get more use from it . |
| 22 | A man of good reading , but few prospects could make a substantial killing with a 5 year contract . |
| 23 | you could make a complete Christmas stable scene with shepherds in ‘ homespun ’ knitting , angels , the three Kings in bejewelled lace , Mary in a blue robe and white veil and Joseph in brown or dark green . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Taken together these could make a real contribution to improved corporate performance . |
| 27 | ‘ So if we rebuilt it in a more palatial style we could make a real killing when we sold it . |
| 28 | If they were unshackled from the current over-rigorous financial constraints , perhaps we could make a real impact on a problem which threatens Britain 's credibility as a civilised nation . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It would be helpful to companies , as they try to improve their corporate governance , if they could make a real distinction between executive and non-executive directors . |