Example sentences of "could make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing we could make stick so he got away with it . ’ |
| 2 | The companies are concerned about planned speed restrictions on Skerne Park through ‘ sleeping policeman ’ type humps in the road , saying they could make journeys slower , uncomfortable and uneconomical . |
| 3 | Yes , you could make music on one but that would be sacrilegious considering all the other exciting possibilities that it has to offer : eg. killing fascists ( Woody Guthrie ) , saying sorry ( Billy Bragg ) , as a firelighter ( Jimi Hendrix ) , for clubbing amplifiers senseless ( Pete Townshend ) , for levelling stage floorboards ( Ritchie Blackmore ) , as a mini-TV stand ( Billy Gibbons ) , to stimulate groupies ( Steve Vai ) , to cream yourself ( Hendrix again , that infamous Tokai advert or even that sad figure in the current Trantec Systems advert ) , as a shop sign ( Original Flying Vee ) , as a cricket bat ( Ian Botham with the Staccato magnesium bass ) , as a baseball bat ( Steinberger XL ) , you could use one to kill her mama ( like Frank and Dweezil ) and , if you are still bored after all that , you could electrocute yourself with it through your dangerously hot-rodded stack . |
| 4 | Anderson believes the TV deal with Warner Brothers could make Cole another £100,000 . |
| 5 | If so , and depending on their condition , the set could make £40 at auction . |
| 6 | Neutral and prosperous neighbours could make Russia feel safer than its current buffer of allied but unhappy comrades . |
| 7 | And she knew that this outing had been contrived by him so that he could make progress with her . |
| 8 | On June 30 Russian President Boris Yeltsin had made remarks suggesting that negotiations over the disputed islands could make progress only if Japan provided economic aid to Russia . |
| 9 | Environment Minister , Ségolène Royal , has warned that this could make France " the dustbin of Europe " , and argued instead that each country should treat its own waste " under the principle of self-sufficiency " . |
| 10 | ‘ Rohan obviously felt he could make plans for his own future , at last . |
| 11 | The proceedings here are judicial , not autocratic , which they would be if we could make laws instead of administering them . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I could make costumes . ’ |
| 13 | And the recently discovered structure of atoms gave them the idea that they could make helium out of hydrogen . |
| 14 | In fact the pet petticoat restaurant is is run as a and because the theatre trust for whatever reason could make profit out of the petticoat restaurant and people that actually work there for the trust that actually took it over and the trust actually get 's a percent of the takings percent of profit and er . |
| 15 | In such a state , he knew , he could make judgments which were almost too pure , too unrelenting . |
| 16 | The Bat Conservation Trust was set up to provide such facts on bats ( not ill-informed opinions as in your editorial ) so that people could make judgments for themselves . |
| 17 | Clearly , it could make sense to seal many sites and leave them until better treatments have been developed . |
| 18 | But it was the scientist alone who could make sense of the discoveries , and late eighteenth-century naturalists had already begun to puzzle over the bones of gigantic elephant-like creatures found both in America and in Europe . |
| 19 | There was an intake of angry breath from Lucenzo , and the boatman seemed filled with remorse , but he was bundled off the boat before Meredith could make sense of the man 's mistake . |
| 20 | We did live in a state , where there were others knew more about the world than we did , and could make sense of it for us . |
| 21 | We could make movies ! |
| 22 | As an alternative to payment under Deed of Covenant , Tradeco could make payments under the Gift Aid provisions of the Taxes Act . |
| 23 | PC Tools 8 is crammed with quality features , some of which could make MS-DOS go green with envy |
| 24 | You could you could make loads I can make loads of them ! |
| 25 | If she does , I could make cakes for it , could n't I , and jam — ’ |
| 26 | I offered to escort her so that she could make assignations with Rizzi . |
| 27 | These factors , said some respondents , could make claims for compensation more difficult to pursue , even though hepatitis B is an acknowledged occupational disease for some healthcare workers . |
| 28 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 29 | And it means that we could make changes if we needed to . |
| 30 | This is closely linked to their passivity : it does not occur to them that they could make changes in their world . |