Example sentences of "[noun] can make [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It is as explicit as words can make it that the defendants are to hold ‘ upon a weekly tenancy at a weekly rental , and that the tenancy is to be determined by either of the parties on giving a week 's notice to the other . ’
2 ‘ If Clem can make it , that is .
3 With three relatively easy home fixtures remaining , player-coach Ivan Whitfield is confident his side can make their top-eight target .
4 THE parties can make what agreement they wish about the time , place and manner of delivery and payment .
5 Attention to materials and cut can make his clothes ideal for an active , yet stylist life-style .
6 Elaine explained : ‘ I 've really tried hard not to let Deborah and Jon criticise each other , I think that 's important , some brothers can make their sisters feel awful !
7 Thus , the absence of a common framework for evaluating risks can make it difficult to arrive at consensus decisions .
8 Very large numbers of synonyms for even a few home addresses can make it impractical , however .
9 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 .
10 The turmoil brought about by our wants can make us very vulnerable and afraid .
11 He could well land the opening three races with Royal Wonder , Pertemps Network and Huntworth , while Star 's Delight can make it two wins in as many days by taking the Rainford Conditional Jockeys Handicap Chase .
12 The proponents of this approach to policy claim that it will encourage a more stable background in which the private sector can make its own investment and spending plans with greater certainty about future government policy ; that it will prevent abrupt and damaging shifts of policy ; and that it will make government manipulation of monetary policy for electoral purposes more difficult .
13 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 .
14 The crag lies outside the main tourist haunts and even in high summer , when the midday sun can make it too hot to climb , an air of secrecy prevails .
15 You may think you have problems now , but Vittorio can make them seem like fond memories . ’
16 My country is full of distinctions of this kind , and in the congenial climate of Oxford they flourish to form a semantic jungle through which only the natives can make their way .
17 And there 's some doubt as to whether the council can make its tenant farmers enforce the ban .
18 At last , psychologists claim to have found proof that glossy magazine images of thin , super-sexy models can make us ill .
19 Instead of buying a car every second year the motorist can make his purchase every third year so creating a considerable fall in sales .
20 The truth is , of course , that no hypnotherapist can make you do anything .
21 Skilful questioning of the child can make him tap sources of knowledge he did n't know he had .
22 The child can make his own cards of his own errors .
23 Let her take a favourite toy or comfort object with her , as sometimes a little piece of home can make her feel more secure among strangers .
24 Suffering can make its full contribution to my awareness only if I do not pursue it in advance , even though its value may be appreciated in retrospect .
25 1991 : Recordable CD ( CD-R ) becomes a reality , with demonstrations of a Denon -manufactured system at a September hi-fi show held at a Heathrow hotel pulling huge crowds ; the time when punters can make their own CD compilations looms ever nearer .
26 Professional punters can make it pay by carefully studying form but the average punter will end up with £81 for every Pounds 100 staked .
27 Oddly , it might seem , running the signal through this electronic sausage machine can make it clearer at the far end .
28 ‘ At need , enchantment can make us seem a host to human eyes ; but in truth , there is only myself and my nine companions .
29 off that , er I think several of us believe that the complexities of trust law at the present moment can make it very difficult if one agreed .
30 If you 're recording , plug it into the desk and the engineer can make anything sound good , so whether you use one pickup , two pickups , one amp , two amps , Marshall , Crate , anything .
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