Example sentences of "you could make [art] " in BNC.

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1 You could make no better start than the Ridgeway national trail , running from Overton Hill in Wiltshire to Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire .
2 Do n't over-react and take it out on your son or daughter before you know all the facts — or you could make a small problem bigger
3 You could make a chart showing how you spend your time , and particularly how your leisure time is divided between domestic chores , car maintenance , TV , videos , taking the children out , the pub , visiting friends and relatives , and so on .
4 IF YOU watch television and listen to news-readers , leaders of industry , pop-bawlers and ‘ presenters ’ , you could make a whole glossary of words that have been shortened in the interests of inarticulacy and idleness .
5 And it says much that you could make a racer out of the RS road car with a few hours notice .
6 ‘ Then perhaps you could make a small room available to me for a few hours ?
7 If you could make a profit of approximately £2,500 per week for the fourteen or so unoccupied weeks ( a big if ! ) you would turn that excess of expenditure over income into an income surplus .
8 All you had to do was write about it afterwards , and you could make a real fast buck .
9 There are many times when a heart-shaped design can be ideal — for example , you could make a Valentine 's Day card with some very small red roses and their leaves , plus a small amount of asparagus fern to soften the outlines .
10 For example , if you were thinking of ways of decorating the bedroom of a feminine little girl , you could make a series of miniatures , each bearing a single letter , which when hung together on a wall spelt out her name .
11 For example , to commemorate a wood anniversary , as well as using a wooden frame , you could make a collage with pressed pieces of bark from a variety of trees .
12 You could make a very simple picture with pansies , which are generally translated as ‘ think of me ’ , or potentillas which mean ‘ beloved daughter ’ .
13 For instance , you could make a herbal picture for someone called Rosemary , or a lovely wintry picture with holly , hellebores and carnations for a Holly .
14 Many of them had had sex with other gays , but few of them had accepted that you could make a way of life out of it .
15 You could make a regular all-over pattern , but I think that they look best spaced out or in a patch or a group .
16 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 .
17 One of my friends was at Sherborne and speaks very posh — I took him back to my place for a drink one day and my dad was going , ‘ Dennis , listen to Tim , listen — go on , talk , say something ’ and my friend says , ‘ Well I do n't know what to say really , Mr Waterman , ’ and my dad says to me , ‘ Why do n't you talk like that , you could make a fortune . ’
18 The menu is varied and if you choose to do so , you could make a full meal of it — for instance you could choose calamari , followed by Scottish salmon , followed by delicious fudge brownies .
19 Well do you think that you could make a ‘ bit of a window ’ for the Church ? ’
20 Or you could make a Freudian explanation .
21 If you knew what the lecturer controlling your studies was to do in the way of arranging these in a particular order , you could make a skeleton in linear form , one heading following another and falling into a hierarchy of importance .
22 After three years ' practice , you could make a comparatively painless change to the solicitors ' branch , being exempted from articles , and also ( at discretion ) from some papers in the Final .
23 Well you could make a proviso .
24 If you knew which horse was going to win the Grand National , you could make a fortune by betting on it .
25 You could make a dotted something out of that group of three notes .
26 You could make a hay soo now with a with square bales of hay .
27 You could make a fortune selling them to stressed businessmen .
28 If you feel more comfortable having at least a visual dividing line between sitting and dining areas you could make a dividing ‘ wall ’ with a low storage unit .
29 If you have a kitchen/dining room and want to make it look particularly warm and comfortable you could make a visual division between working and eating areas by stapling the dining walls with a cheap cotton treated with a protective spray .
30 Because you could make a nasty enemy . ’
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