Example sentences of "be [adj] make some " in BNC.

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1 However , though the only currently practicable approach to identifying rural deprivation was an area based one and although it has been possible to make some sense of census data for rural areas , they still concluded , in line with Knox and Cottam , that it would be far better if the analysis could be performed at the individual level .
2 April does n't have to be a month of trials and tribulations or agonising over career or professional matters , if you are prepared to make some snap decisions and take what transpires towards the very end of March as a signal to go even further out on a limb .
3 ‘ I am free to make some phone calls , am I ?
4 ‘ I need to feel that you are willing to make some effort . ’
5 In other words designers at DEC may have been able to make some process concessions to achieve a record clock rate that might not be appropriate for other architectures .
6 president Kennedy , interviewed by Jean Daniel of L'Exprès , hinted that the United States might be willing to make some concessions .
7 It is also not the kind of company that throws its money around so it must be confident making some on Unix .
8 So if you have young children you might be able to make some garments and take them to the Play Group — if the leader will let you !
9 Clearly , each such area ought to be able to make some contribution to analysing George and Marie 's problems .
10 What you 're trying to do is indicate to them how best you might be able to work your way through those controversies to be able to make some statement of policy or some recommendation and the like … .
11 They may be unable to make some of the viral proteins that should trigger the immune system into action , leading to a weakened immune response against the infection .
12 Possibly the shock of feeling hard spikes in what appeared to be a soft , yielding morsel of food would be enough to make some predators think twice , but this is not particularly convincing .
13 It would certainly be necessary to make some further enquiries among the tourists , particularly about their activities during the key period between the time Kemp had arrived back in Oxford , and the pre-dinner drinks when everyone except Eddie Stratton , it appeared , was accounted for .
14 She needed him to be ready to make some sort of commitment to her .
15 In contrast , the government 's two senior legal advisers and the senior partner of a leading firm of society lawyers were so ignorant of this fact that it did not even enter their heads that it would be wise to make some enquiries before launching their client into a statement that could be , and indeed was , ruinous .
16 One of the few occasions when she had been really cross with me had been when I suggested he might have been wiser to make some sort of provision for his wife and son .
17 Marie Claire had some novels about English girls lost in the desert at the mercy of proud sheikhs , but those girls were as proud as the sheikhs themselves and defiant too — at least until near the end of the story — and the sheikhs were prepared to make some concessions themselves by that time .
18 The hunger strike sparked off divisions between those Länder ruled by the SPD and those ruled by the CDU or CSU , since the former were prepared to make some limited concessions by allowing very small groups of RAF prisoners to have contact with each other .
19 The time can be shortened , however , if those members who were supposed to make some enquiry or obtain some information , or to write a short factual statement , have not only done so but have informed the Hon.
20 This system can be a manual one but with computerised time-recording packages available at under £500 it is preferable to make some investment in technology .
21 It can be seen that in terms of the formal equations it is possible to make some juncture , but in so doing it is also possible to lose sight of the quite different perspectives from which they derive .
22 It is possible to make some observations of the law relating to obscenity and indecency which indicate that , while accepting that one ought to be guided by the rule of law in censorship matters , one would be better advised to come to decisions without reference to this or that piece of obscenity or indecency legislation .
23 However , it is possible to make some general comments about the ways in which descriptions of a child 's language difficulties can contribute to planning intervention .
24 From this , it is possible to make some statements about the take-up of the project at grass-roots level .
25 Although the evidence for Desiderius 's activity as bishop is unequalled , it is possible to make some comparison with other Merovingian bishops ; Nicetius of Dax had been comes before he became bishop ; Sidonius of Mainz and Felix of Nantes embarked on significant building programmes .
26 Although it is possible to make some generalizations about the likely sequence of development of an intercontinental collision orogen , the pre-collision history of the active margin of the overriding plate and its subduction zone has an important influence on the subsequent evolution of an orogenic belt .
27 Nonetheless it is possible to make some observations concerning the relative dissociation rates from some of the sites .
28 Increasing contestability is likely to make some natural monopolies not sustainable ( e.g. the single-product rising cost cases ) , but in other cases the effect will be to discipline pricing behaviour more severely .
29 Rather than simply sampling at random , it is helpful to make some preliminary enquiries among the child 's parents or teachers regarding the kinds of situations in which she is most likely to talk .
30 be able to make some
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