Example sentences of "can [adv] make [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , one can only make peace with one 's enemies . |
| 2 | What we also see is a description of this underlying God which can only make sense in personal terms . |
| 3 | Thinking can only make use of the patterns we have acquired in the past . |
| 4 | On the other hand , there are those who have only an imperfect formal competence in a language but who by a combination of guesswork and intuition can somehow make contact with the aesthetic qualities of a foreign poem . |
| 5 | The management can be a rejecting object and may well be confusing and inconsistent , so much so that workers can not make sense of them and their demands . |
| 6 | The child can not make sense of the world without pattern , without events that repeat . |
| 7 | This is important , because it is sometimes given as an objection to attitude theories that they can not make sense of subordinate ethical clauses . |
| 8 | The sceptical argument therefore claims that you can not make sense of the idea of a subject of experience other than yourself . |
| 9 | I can not make sense of that rhyme . |
| 10 | If the Z88 can not make sense of the string or the day/date is impossible , a " Bad syntax " error will be reported . |
| 11 | So long as the animals can not make contact with the nets there is no problem . |
| 12 | ‘ You can not make peace with dictators , you have to destroy them , ’ Nelson asserts at one point for the benefit of inattentive members of the audience . |
| 13 | You can not make lace on your first row and there has to be at least one stitch between each hole . |
| 14 | We have already seen ( paragraph 7–05 ) that the time of delivery is normally ‘ of the essence , ’ i.e. if a delivery date is stipulated and the seller can not make delivery by that date , that is a breach of condition and the buyer is entitled to repudiate the contract and sue for non-delivery . |
| 15 | This would be fine but the natural type of memory for a modern machine , a 286 or 386 , is extended memory and this means that often a machine will have 4 or 8 MBytes of memory that a simple spreadsheet just can not make use of . |
| 16 | Branches should avoid merely asking the insured to obtain estimate(s) or quotation(s) unless the type of claim or the remoteness of the location means that we can not make use of our own local or national arrangements with traders . |
| 17 | The benefit of this form of publicity is that it could reach those in the home ( women , unemployed , disabled ) and especially those who can not make use of the coverage in newspapers ( i.e. the blind ) . |
| 18 | I enjoyed reading your material , but after consideration I 'm afraid to say that I can not make use of short stories . |
| 19 | Historical study can not make place for any such absoluteness , let alone demonstrate it . |
| 20 | P&O Roadtanks ' safety record is excellent but if one of their vehicles gets into trouble — be it breakdown , crash or spillage — police and fire services can quickly make contact with key personnel who are on call day or night . |
| 21 | His successor , Yuri Andropov , who died after only 15 months in office , initiated a national debate on reform , though still in guarded terms ( today 's undergraduate students who have become accustomed to Gorbachev 's candour can hardly make sense of an Andropov speech — yet at the time his pronouncements seemed rich in fresh insights ) . |
| 22 | You may want your partner to know that there is something important you want to discuss , so that you can both make time in advance . |
| 23 | He can now make contact with the rock spirits in a friendly and positive manner , being guided to new cup-and-ring marks , some hidden 6in ( 15cm ) below the turf . |
| 24 | We can now make use of these approximations to calculate M n . |
| 25 | Software revenues rose by 1.1% to $2,520m , but maintenance was off 5.1% to $1,800m ; services were the star performer , rising 48% to $1,900m , but the jury is still out and there is a great deal of scepticism that the company can actually make money on all those facilities management contracts . |
| 26 | Software revenues rose by 1.1% to $2,520m , but maintenance was off 5.1% to $1,800m ; services were the star performer , rising 48% to $1,900m , but the jury is still out and there is a great deal of scepticism that the company can actually make money on all those facilities management contracts . |
| 27 | And the problem is exacerbated with the level of competition on the market increasing all the time — many hardware vendors , for example , are trying to boost dwindling profits by moving into this arena — many observers question whether IBM Corp can actually make money from facilities management . |