Example sentences of "[modal v] make [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever we may make of its influences , Leonard is clear that he ‘ never recovered ’ from its dénouements ; its ‘ illumination of human behaviour ’ ; its horror ( which he termed ‘ metaphorical ’ ) . |
| 2 | Young people frequently dismiss remarks which older people may make about their impending or eventual death . |
| 3 | And in this instance , he is only too aware of the kind of judgements I may make about him as a child reader , and tailors his reply accordingly . |
| 4 | Evening classes are a good way of meeting people , adding to your skills , having fun , and learning at the same time , without the organisational demands that a club may make upon you . |
| 5 | It is not the Government 's business to start telling banks and consumers what arrangements they should make between themselves although , clearly , some people are in difficulties with consumer credit . |
| 6 | May I particularly welcome my right hon. Friend 's announcement that he has agreed to President Yeltsin 's request to send advisers to help the Russians with the traumatic changes that they must make to their armed forces as a result of the change in the situation ? |
| 7 | They must make of it what they will . |
| 8 | ‘ And you must be grateful to her for everything she does , and for all the sacrifices she must make on your behalf . |
| 9 | Julius needs to maintain a certain lifestyle , and you might find it difficult at first to cope with the demands he 'll make on you . ’ |
| 10 | And God knows what sort of a mishmash they 'll make of it . |
| 11 | ‘ I wonder what they 'll make of our humble little home . ’ |
| 12 | Within the Councils , the ‘ proof ’ still largely consists of peer reviews , although ABRC has attempted to assess the contribution which bibliometric studies might make to their decision-making , whilst the UFC now requires universities to provide it with bibliometric and other performance statistics . |
| 13 | Whatever shamefaced and boyish confessions he might make to his patients , he controlled his smoking , rationing himself to between ten and fifteen a day . |
| 14 | So — we would much rather that you went out on a limb , that you did something , that you listened to the remarks of your peers and possibly to the remarks that we might make about them , take them away and think about them . |
| 15 | He also talks to him about the possible relationship between stress , smoking , poor dietary habits , alcohol and the incidence of peptic ulcers so that Peter understands what is happening and can consider what changes he might make in his lifestyle . |
| 16 | The ( tax free ) capital gains made by owner-occupiers generally far exceed any possible savings that they might make from their income . |
| 17 | ‘ They realized what complete idiots they 'd make of themselves , ’ said Nigel complacently . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know what they 'd make of ours , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll hang myself , ’ I used to mutter over and over again , or for a change I would stare at my shotgun and wonder at the sort of mess I could make of myself . |
| 20 | Therefore , most of the King 's resources must have been bound up in those ships and the various uses he could make of them . |
| 21 | Exactly that passage from The Wanderer , for instance , is paraphrased by Aragorn in chapter 6 of The Two Towers : a candid mind might have looked to see what Tolkien could make of it . |
| 22 | At the same time , the unions gradually dropped their pre-war opposition to occupational pensions , recognizing the contribution they could make to their strategy of removing older workers from the labour market ( Hannah 1986 ) . |
| 23 | The beautifully refurbished Palace was the only upwards step the band could make after their previous Manchester appearance at the Free Trade Hall . |
| 24 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 25 | What a mockery that would make of her insistence that she was independent and perfectly able to take care of herself . |
| 26 | ‘ I wonder what St Wilfrid would make of it all ’ , wrote the 1984 committee chairman in the feast programme . |
| 27 | She wondered what they would make of it as she got out the vacuum cleaner and started to run it over the drawing-room carpet . |
| 28 | I wondered what sort of job he would make of it . |
| 29 | I 'd like to see what hard nosed er B A I E people would make of it you know people who are making a living from doing the same well you know when I employ somebody coming into the business this is what I want them to be able to do um this has always been of course an a criticism |
| 30 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |