Example sentences of "make out [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditionally , literary criticism — which generally has supported the conservative idea of the period as a time of disruption and rebellion has made out a case for the poem 's balanced quality in praising both Cromwell and Charles I. Marvell may have later been an employee of Cromwell 's Latin Secretariat , but his poem shows an independent impartiality which avoids political commitment . |
| 2 | After she 'd made out the application for him she said , ‘ Can you manage if I leave you with it ? ’ |
| 3 | Maura could see Terry 's lips moving but could not make out a word . |
| 4 | I could make out a couple of dozen large buildings . |
| 5 | One may make a comparison here with his attitude towards the poor ; for one could evidently make out a case that , in relation to the poor , he preached the need for revolution . |
| 6 | And David Evans , all white and stammering , do n't you tell me my father 's a bloody animal I 've got to kick out of the way , and G.P. saying I 've never hurt an animal in my life , you can always make out a case for hurting human beings , but human animals deserve every sympathy . |
| 7 | You concealed knowledge of a deserter , you actually helped him stay deserted , and They can make out a case for saying you still are . |
| 8 | At Procedure Roll a defender may , very occasionally , succeed in persuading a Court that the pursuer 's case is so hopeless that it is not worth allowing evidence to be heard because even if that evidence was heard , it would not make out a case which would entitle the pursuer to succeed . |
| 9 | Perhaps she should stay and try and make out a case for herself . |
| 10 | Both sides could make out a case that they deserved to win and should have been awarded penalties . |
| 11 | ‘ AT THE top of Wears Hill we could just make out a signpost , pointing inland to Ashley Chase . |
| 12 | The design was n't very clear , but she could just make out a building shaped like a tower , she thought , tracing the outline with her fingertip , and beneath it a flower which might or might not be a rose . |
| 13 | As they drew nearer John could just make out a plate on which the number 173 was discernible . |
| 14 | A. You can still make out a Deed of Covenant , and send the money directly to Save the Children by Postal Order . |
| 15 | The curving windows at the stern are freckled with spray ; through one of them you can make out a set of fat capstans and a listless macaroni of sodden rope . |
| 16 | As illustrated in Figure 1.9 , we can make out a number of levels more basic than this ; the electronic circuits themselves , the logical functions ( such as gates and flipflops ) , and the functional units ( such as adders and registers ) . |
| 17 | The Doctor followed the narrow road down through a small valley , before climbing back up towards a bare hilltop where he could make out a number of tiny wooden crosses , like a forest of lifeless bonsai trees . |
| 18 | At that point he becomes marginally important to my future , and I might just make out a client sheet for him . |
| 19 | I could make out a sort of close-fitting purple cap on the back of her head . |
| 20 | Can you imagine , we have to try and make out a picture of that ! |
| 21 | Mind you , I still think that now on the way back from a long hill-walk when I can just make out a dot that is the car . |
| 22 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 23 | But as his eyes grew accustomed to it he could make out a hand protruding from the open lounge doorway . |
| 24 | I could just make out a figure wheeling a bicycle up the drive . |
| 25 | I could make out the Headmaster 's fancy brick chimneys , three shaped like corkscrews , three with brick diamond patterns , also the black branches of the elm tree shining wetly in the light of a precinct lamp-post . |
| 26 | ‘ You can just make out the division markings on the walls where they 've joined the units . ’ |
| 27 | If he squinted his eyes , he could just make out the greyness of the roof between the trees and here and there the stony finger of a chimney-stack . |
| 28 | He could just make out the name in spite of the peeling paint . |
| 29 | The unpainted doors were padlocked and above them he could vaguely make out the name Strauss , the paintwork having been abraded over the years by the weather . |
| 30 | He could just make out the chicken . |