Example sentences of "[indef pn] could make " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was a little afraid , but this was something really important ; nobody could make me get married after I had discovered something as strange as this . |
| 2 | Nothing could make clearer the extent of God 's commitment to his world than the appearance of the Jacob stories so hard on the heels of those few stories about Isaac . |
| 3 | I said , ‘ I do n't know , he has a title , I 'd be a lady , ’ and she said : ‘ Darling , nothing could make you a lady . ’ |
| 4 | Judd Lander , head of Chrysalis Records Promotions Dept , and prime mover behind this trip says , ‘ We wanted to hire the European Parliament building but there was too much bureaucracy involved and , in the end , no-one could make a decision . |
| 5 | Where changing something could make a difference , and seems unlikely to do harm , we should go ahead and do it . |
| 6 | In both cases , one could make the point against Flew that the believer does not accept that nothing would count against his or her belief in God . |
| 7 | Most of the criticisms one could make concern errors of omission rather than of commission . |
| 8 | No one could make him stay at school . |
| 9 | As well as this , Vincent may have been influenced by Zola 's theory that one could make oneself an artist by an act of will , providing one had the temperament — ‘ Art is nature seen through a temperament ’ — and although natural talent was helpful , it was by no means essential . |
| 10 | One could make a case that the women 's conversation is more logical than the men 's . |
| 11 | And once he was on stage , no one could make him do what he did not want to do . |
| 12 | But to speak in terms of a vision involves no necessary reference to history , or to any particular person ; one could make the vision one 's own without knowing with whom it originated . |
| 13 | Sam Gristy , it was learnt , was to be his partner in the venture , though why that was so no one could make out , as the two men had hardly spoken three words together since the day Gristy won Martha for his wife . |
| 14 | There are various complaints one could make about this division , most of which are justified . |
| 15 | Well , no one could make that out , but it transpired that the lad had a sense of humour . |
| 16 | On these factors , one could make several observations . |
| 17 | If it were not , one could make a killing on the stock exchange by having a computer that would remember tomorrow 's prices ! |
| 18 | Given that part of the rationale behind the ACDP is the devolution of responsibility to colleges , one could make the case that the specialist nature of these courses makes it very desirable that colleges should undertake the main part of the development work , in partnership with the Council and the commercial organisations served by the course . |
| 19 | I think for me I love erm er er er I love a challenge , and er I suspect the fact that before I went into it people said it was erm something which was erm absolutely impossible er er and that the their was no way that one could make a go of it erm made it made it made it perhaps all the more challenging to try to prove them wrong . |
| 20 | While one could make the same use of filters for waveband selection , only Band 7 has been used , since this is the one of greatest interest for the current application . |
| 21 | She had a repertoire of all-time favourites , culled from these various phases , which the whole family loved , and knew that no one could make better : coq au vin , boeuf Stroganoff , lasagne with home-made pasta , duck with orange , tandoori chicken . |
| 22 | Most of the generalisations one could make are probably true for a lot of other languages as well . |
| 23 | Well that would be an error , because it 's actually Canberra , but you could be , you yo that 's , that 's a mistake er , that anybody could make . |
| 24 | I got ta make a dozen mince pies for the , she said can you make a dozen mince for the , I said no Sheila , she said pardon , I said no , I said I 'd buy twelve I will not make twelve , so after that she 's , then went round everybody could make twelve mince pies , it 's a bit of a nerve is n't it ? , seems a bit of a nerve asking us to buy the wool and make |
| 25 | All he needed — as far as anyone could make out from the hogsheads of salted pilchards that were assembled in two separate groups at the harbour — was one more good catch and victory , together with Martha 's hand , would be his . |
| 26 | As far as anyone could make out none of the hostages whose lives had been threatened earlier in the year had actually been harmed , but the stream of communiqués from the groups had dried up . |
| 27 | ‘ She did n't utter any reproach , but her face was the greatest reproach anyone could make . ’ |
| 28 | He turned back to the frying-pan , and she wondered how anyone could make her hackles rise with so few words . |
| 29 | Anyone could make that mistake in the urgency of a business flight , yet the airline concerned must pay the Government for that . |
| 30 | Ali was shocked that anyone could make a mistake so gross . |