Example sentences of "can make [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane Bywaters , who has been responsible for much of the exhibition , said : ‘ We need to give people information so that they can make up their own minds about food and not be dictated to by the media and media events . ’ |
| 2 | This way , you can make up a ‘ hit list ’ of personnel within companies to whom you want to send your tape . |
| 3 | Obviously we believe we can make up the time on roads we have been over quite a few times . ’ |
| 4 | In my mind you can make up anything you want in your notebooks , but you ca n't call it fraud if it was n't published . |
| 5 | There 's no place like Home , provided you can make up your mind where on earth that place is supposed to be . |
| 6 | On the other hand , there are tables and graphs and a methodical list of the alternatives , so the intelligent and diligent reader can make up his own mind . |
| 7 | Other bryozoan colonies are more immediately conspicuous , particularly the stout , twig-like branches of the Palaeozoic trepostomes , which can make up thick limestone beds , and formed their own ‘ reefs ’ , or the large , often net-like colonies of the ‘ fenestrellids ’ common in the Upper Palaeozoic . |
| 8 | Why do the powers that be refuse to supply dental dams on the same basis as condoms are supplied , so that we can make up our own minds as to the suitability or otherwise of the dams ? |
| 9 | You can make up simple , large crossword puzzles for the patient to solve . |
| 10 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 11 | Business units can make up their own minds about the implications of economic factors on their own operations ; the corporate planning departments are more interested in determining how vulnerable each business unit is to different economic environments . |
| 12 | JVC 's disc plant near Tokyo can make up to 300 000 discs a month . |
| 13 | ‘ I can make up your undoubted losses ! ’ |
| 14 | If there are enough of you , you can make up a more formal self-help group . |
| 15 | Eggs are the perfect protein , containing all eight essential amino acids , so they can make up for any deficiency that may be caused elsewhere . |
| 16 | His view is that consumers should be told the whole truth : ‘ If the public wants fish fingers made up of minced fish that 's OK , so long as they are told and can make up their own minds . |
| 17 | Even young people have ideas and can make up their own minds , and he did n't want to tell us what he thought we should do because it was our lives and he realised that . ’ |
| 18 | The straight side sections are easier : you can make up mock pilasters with straight sections of bought mouldings , or again make your own if you have a router . |
| 19 | There 's no way money can make up for losing all that ’ . |
| 20 | Hadley is adamant that , despite the views expressed by Wayne Shelford , nothing can make up for the satisfaction of representing the country of your birth at international level . |
| 21 | ‘ I ai n't going to be tidied up and looked at so 's you can make up your mind about fancying me . |
| 22 | If Mr Yeltsin tries to play by the rules as he moves towards a new constitutional order , he will fail , because parliament can make up the rules as it goes along . |
| 23 | This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole . |
| 24 | I 'll be happy if we can make up for our late start by mid-season . ’ |
| 25 | Friends who are very dissimilar may not give the same thing to each other , but what each gives can sometimes be even richer for this : it can make up for the other 's deficits . |
| 26 | Children , individually or in groups , can make up their own nonsense words , and decide how they should be spelled . |
| 27 | " If at the end of seven years , he can make up the fraction of a quarto forme and impose it , or is able to lay down a sheet of 16 's correctly , the apprentice so qualified may considered himself well advanced . " |
| 28 | ACORN divides the nation 's households into 38 individual neighbourhood types , which — in turn — can make up 12 larger groups , ranging in size from 3 per cent to 18 per cent of UK households . |
| 29 | If you can make up your mind what you want to eat then there is a unique goal . |
| 30 | Sometimes other people can make up your mind for you and sometimes they ca n't . |