Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] make them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regional brewers fear that the decision may make them vulnerable to predators . |
| 2 | Rather he thinks that ants ' social organisation and skills should make them at least as rewarding to study as the birds and mammals on which animal behaviourists have focused . |
| 3 | Erm peacocks ' tails may make them beautiful and more reproductively successful with peahens , but they do n't make them fitter in terms of erm life expectancy . |
| 4 | She led them towards the kitchen , certain that Bella would make them welcome and throw another three or four collops of bacon into the pan . |
| 5 | But reformers said jailing kids would make them worse . |
| 6 | Supermarket trolleys have to be fairly cheap and brakes would make them less economical to produce . |
| 7 | VIRGINIA Bottomley thinks that making patients write their own prescriptions will make them more responsible for their health . |
| 8 | Only a dramatic confrontation with the reality of their condition will make them take their illness seriously . |
| 9 | The chemical companies are also betting that the Greenhouse Effect will make them a killing . |
| 10 | Or , more critical perhaps , why — if evidence reviewed earlier is to be believed — many creative individuals even seem to have enhanced resistance to the mental illnesses to which , according to the theory outlined , their dispositions should make them more than usually susceptible . |
| 11 | An hour on the workbench could make them play quite reasonably , but do n't imagine you 're getting anything like a real Rickenbacker for a bargain price ; they 've got the looks , but that 's about all . |
| 12 | He maintained that the forest wastes wanted ‘ only inclosure to be highly productive ’ of corn : a general Enclosure Act would make them ‘ profitable to the Community ’ . |
| 13 | Intelligence would make them more difficult to control . |
| 14 | These major disasters are compounded by the fact that those people believed that the NHS would make them better . |
| 15 | Worrying about , concentrating on and listening to the head noises will make them seem even more prominent and dominating . |
| 16 | Indeed the Law Commission Working Paper No 77 , Implied Terms in Contracts for the Supply of Goods ( 1977 ) , recognised three possible approaches : firstly , the bailor is strictly liable ( Jones v Page ( 1867 ) 15 LT 619 per Kelly CB at p621 ) ; secondly , the goods must be as fit as care and skill can make them ( Hyman v Nye ( 1881 ) 6 QBD 685 per Lindley J at p682 ) ; thirdly , the bailor is liable only if he fails to take reasonable care to ensure that the goods are fit which , as the via media of the two other approaches , was eventually adopted in s9 of SGSA 1982 . |
| 17 | They will have suggested topics which will bind the poor as a class together ; topics which will excite them against the rich ; topics the discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches the ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable … — that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . |
| 18 | You may think you have problems now , but Vittorio can make them seem like fond memories . ’ |
| 19 | This was not altruism on the part of the brewers , but was born out of a realisation that preserving the best of their heritage could make them money . |
| 20 | ‘ Grey ’ issues of money occur whenever enterprises that are short of funds to pay their obligations insist that the banks should make them the necessary advances to restore their ‘ liquidity ’ . |
| 21 | We are now being told by this arrogant and incompetent lot that having given us record unemployment , bankruptcies , house repossession , liquidations , factory closures etc , that they are the only ones fit to govern when surely that record should make them hang their heads in shame . |
| 22 | In fact , many potential objections may never even be aired , because the demonstration process will make them invalid . |
| 23 | Quite rightly , professionals are struggling to understand the pressures of caring , and their sympathy for carers can make them ignore or misread signs of abuse , or even to interpret abuse as a response to the difficulties some elderly people present . |
| 24 | Only later are unanticipated costs and benefits visible ; hindsight can make them appear deliberate all along . |
| 25 | Salt concentrations near the surface may make them especially inhospitable to vegetation ; only the soils of damper areas , in which salts are distributed evenly or concentrated at depth , are likely to support plant propagules . |
| 26 | But the law reports are a random collection of cases , and the very fact that each of those cases resulted from a dispute which the parties could not settle by agreement and had to take to court may make them an unrepresentative sample of the applications of the procedure . |
| 27 | To touch a dead man or to come into contact with the blood of an injured person would make them unclean and mean that they could not carry out their duties . |
| 28 | ‘ Surely Davey can make them say — ‘ ' |
| 29 | The children of the Indians are saved , to be sold or given away as servants , or rather slaves for as long a time as the owners can make them believe themselves slaves . |
| 30 | The blacksmith used to make them for us out of wood and steel that we carried back from India . |