Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] make [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Scientists holding these values may make different choices in the same concrete situation .
2 The guidance advises the accountant that test checks on a suitable number of controlled trust accounts may make possible a corresponding decrease in the number of checks in respect of other accounts .
3 The guidance that I have referred to is , as it says , guidance to the court and to practitioners in every discipline , but it is authoritative guidance and valuable guidance which family proceedings courts should make clear that they have had regard to when they are arriving at or announcing their decision .
4 Labour last night insisted courts must make clear they will not tolerate the actions of vigilantes .
5 We recommend that all Authorities should make possible and encourage enterprises of this kind .
6 The essential feature of the family centre is that it provides a service to the whole family and not just the child although family centres may also provide other child-centred services such as day care , out-of-school activities and child health clinics. ( d ) Support at home Local authorities must make appropriate provision for the following services to be available to children in need who are living with their families ( Sched 2 , para 8 ) : ( i ) advice , guidance and counselling ; ( ii ) occupational , social , cultural and recreational activities ; ( iii ) home help ( including laundry facilities ) ; ( iv ) transport or assistance with travel expenses to and from the home so that the child may take advantage of any service offered ; ( v ) assistance to enable the child and his family to have a holiday .
7 The plaintiff 's solicitors must make regular checks ( and it is a good idea for the defendant 's insurers and solicitors to do the same ) on the wage rates at regular intervals , and not only on the rates for the job that the plaintiff would have been doing but the rate for any job into which he might have been promoted but for the accident .
8 The CML also argued that solicitors should make annual returns on the number of conveyancing transactions they completed each year .
9 All these strategems may make corporatist arrangements a façade which cloaks the successful pursuit of their own interests by state elites in key policy arenas .
10 Candidates may make unabbreviated longhand notes in Ink in the margin as indicated on page 4 .
11 The University may consider applications from overseas candidates received after the normal closing date of 15 December , but candidates should make early application through UCAS , so that they can be informed in good time of any further qualifications required before they can be considered for admission .
12 Logically such constructions should make ethnic minorities feel even more powerless than they actually are .
13 From the very beginning policymakers must make clear the principles which are going to inform their decision making .
14 The results of those studies were published on 25 September , and on the same day I announced the start of a three-month public consultation period during which interested parties could make written representations to me on the contents of the reports produced by Hydrotechnica .
15 However , since subjects could make accurate identifications of a word at this point , it follows that the cohort did not contain 29 items but only 1 .
16 As an author , he exploded at Mr Pascall for suggesting that the lists would make sure that children read ‘ suitable ’ books : ‘ What is suitable ?
17 ‘ Your pictures would make excellent greeting cards ! ’
18 At the other extreme , modern , mechanized methods would make economic nonsense on a smallholding .
19 If all referees would make sure that the shoulders of the two front rows are higher than their hips there would be no collapsed scrums ’ , he said .
20 If all referees would make sure that the shoulders of the two front rows are higher than their hips there would be no collapsed scrums ’ .
21 Likewise , Charlie 's old school is not an entity that has the property of old-school-ness ; this is not a property of which English speakers would make frequent use , but it might be possible employ it in cases where something had the characteristic of " being a school in an old way " — perhaps with extensive use of wax tablet and stylus , and possibly a slave or two for the menial work .
22 Databases will make professional services such as law and medicine ever more automated .
23 However , on the demand side , the influences ( whatever their relative strengths ) of genetic inheritance and other environmental variables will make individual demands for human capital differ .
24 Regular theatre-goers can make substantial savings by buying a Saver Ticket .
25 A police spokesman explained a simple way drivers can make sure they are the correct distance away from the vehicle in front .
26 Octagonal or hexagonal shapes can make effective fluorescent lighting a real headache and a series of 24″ , 18″ and smaller tubes is not really practical .
27 As to abuse of the scheme by solicitors , the research study by Baldwin and Hill found that officials in area legal aid offices ‘ tended to view members of the legal profession with considerable suspicion , ’ but more on the basis that solicitors might make full or excessive use of the scheme than that there was malpractice or dishonesty .
28 One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences .
29 Whilst these articles may make slight demands upon your mathematical skills , be assured that your indulgence will bring its own reward .
30 The real problem is that the writers of such texts may make political difficulties within a department , or teach in ways difficult for students to understand .
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