Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organisations may pay for just the employee and spouse to view accommodation or may make provision for children to go too . |
| 2 | If Perry Farrell 's God , then that must make Eddie Vedder , singer with Pearl Jam , Jesus . |
| 3 | Slowly , the European Community is edging towards laws that might make rules on shareholdings and takeovers more homogeneous and more liberal , though a deal is many years away . |
| 4 | In times of social upheaval we guard against anything that might make society fragment too precipitately and dangerously , and we try to take care that racist or intolerant literature is suppressed . |
| 5 | Although there is little criticism of the foundation 's decision to support such research , other medical charities argue that its explicit exclusion of research on animals may encourage other smaller research-funding bodies to take a similar stand , a move that could make life increasingly difficult for medical researchers . |
| 6 | We have therefore sought additional analysis strategies that could make use of all the recorded data . |
| 7 | Whilst recognising the need to introduce measures that would make Colleges more self-supporting , it was considered unrealistic to expect such measures to be effective immediately . |
| 8 | Hart exhorts us that ‘ we should not cherish even as an ideal a rule so detailed that no new choices arise at the point of application ’ .6 Unger remarks that ‘ language is no longer credited with the fixidity of categories and the transparent representation of the world that would make formalism plausible in legal reasoning or in ideas about justice ’ . |
| 9 | What needs to be done before you move in — repair or installation work that would make life very uncomfortable for you if you were already living on the premises . |
| 10 | They were cross with each other because of him , and now Nanny was saying bad things about Smallfry that would make Buddie very , very angry . |
| 11 | Resplendent in outrageous fly — boy career that would make Del Boy Trotter green with envy , Henderson stuck firmly to the turf long after his career was over . |
| 12 | Then the music starts , and proceedings plunge from terrible to worse as Mick turns up his five-string fretless ego-bass and it farts rudely into our ears , followed by sickeningly bland streams of wah-wah guitar , scratching , torturous violin and pseudo- ‘ passionate ’ vocals all ‘ awash ’ ( © Tosspot Session Musician 's Handbook , 1972 ) in bloated keyboard atmospherics that would make ELP sound like The Lurkers . |
| 13 | The main fact that would make AT&T look twice is that it would not likely play well with its own shareholders in the short term . |
| 14 | Unionists were only interested in a deal that would make Lloyd George 's capture public . |
| 15 | When Harold Smith , the brother of F.E. , was asked for advice in organization by Huddersfield Unionists , he delivered them a lecture on Liverpool methods , and in the following year they elected F.E. Smith as their President to carry through reforms that would make Huddersfield like Liverpool . |
| 16 | As an international loan officer , I learned to forget about security and instead to develop a set of rationales that would make home office feel good about the loan , even though , technically , it was ‘ unsecured ’ . |
| 17 | Tests are being banned all over the US by the courts and legislatures , something that would make sense if they were as vicious and ineffectual as the press says they are . |
| 18 | When he came in the evening — it was by this time unthinkable that there should be an evening when he did not come — he might let slip something that would make sense of this new move . |
| 19 | That idea was immediately rejected when somebody pointed out that that would make Peter Walker the Secretary of State for Life . |
| 20 | To remedy this , a proposal has been made to the NUS that would make crèche facilities in different universities more similar . |
| 21 | It is true , of course , that the category was never intended to deny the existence of other racisms , nor as an all-encompassing identity that would make ethnicity invisible or irrelevant . |
| 22 | Of course G.P. has lived a life and has views that would make Mr Knightley turn in his grave . |
| 23 | To recoup , the government is expected to speed up the passage of a law that would make insider-trading a crime . |
| 24 | Now it seemed like the only thing that would make Christmas tolerable . |
| 25 | She was not going to say or do anything that would make John Major 's task more difficult : the Cabinet , here she indicated them with a sinuous wave of her hand , was the most brilliant since Herbert Asquith 's and , as for Central Office , and she looked directly at Sir Charles , who was mopping his brow , they were good men and true who strove mightily in the interests of the Party , and for precious little reward . |
| 26 | Slater reckons ‘ Apple is the one company that will make PowerPC happen ’ . |
| 27 | The big problem with this latter group is to find some sort of unifying factor that will make sense or give a theme to a miscellany of oddments that are less than distinguished . |
| 28 | Public lighting engineers give very considerable thought to the glare produced by their installations , but in designing lamps you have to compromise between an installation that will make things most visible , use least energy and produce least glare . |
| 29 | More topically Smith drives home the absurdity of the present British water industry installing meters in households and then setting up a huge bureaucracy to monitor them and gather payment — a move that will make water much more expensive ( and thus more attractive to the private companies which will eventually provide it ) . |
| 30 | The Government is desperate to stem the high drop-out rates from college courses and create a workforce that will make Britain more competitive . |