Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [vb mod] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was your real nature , and it told me that nothing would make you kill an innocent man , a complete stranger , who had done you no harm . |
| 2 | You are obviously tired and I imagine that nothing would make you admit it . |
| 3 | But plans , such as Australia 's aim of 20 per cent cuts in carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2005 , mean that everyone should make that 20 per cent cut in the emissions they generate , directly and indirectly . |
| 4 | There must be no ‘ sacred cows ’ an I hope all of you will assist and will recognise that everyone can make a contribution . |
| 5 | But there were warnings that nobody should make any firm investment decision until just before the actual float as any fall in the market could wipe out chances of an opening premium . |
| 6 | What a trooper that one 'll make . ’ |
| 7 | Even with a computer , it was reckoned it would take at least four years , and the chances were very high that one would make at least one mistake , probably more . |
| 8 | As well as this , Vincent may have been influenced by Zola 's theory that one could make oneself an artist by an act of will , providing one had the temperament — ‘ Art is nature seen through a temperament ’ — and although natural talent was helpful , it was by no means essential . |
| 9 | Ryan represents a kind of Marxism that non-Marxists might do business with , in the sense that one can make a rational engagement with it . |
| 10 | I like to think that one can make provision to eat almost anywhere in the home , just as one should be able to move small tables about to different parts of the garden It is obviously nice to be able to eat in the kitchen or in the living room . |
| 11 | I accept that one can make some criticisms about Labour local authorities , but what I dislike about the Secretary of State 's usual contribution is that it is so cliche d , simplistic and grotesque . |
| 12 | Erm , the rule of evidence is that it is inherently unlikely that anybody would make a statement against their own interest unless it was true . |
| 13 | Ali was shocked that anyone could make a mistake so gross . |
| 14 | On examination , the car had been cut badly and now instead of a neat hole which the teeth of the cog could grab , the hole was broken and nothing would make the machine accept this card . |
| 15 | And once you 'd made your decision , you dug your feet in and nothing would make you change your mind . |
| 16 | But , in my experience , if this is the case although it is possible to plant a new church it will not happen nearly as quickly as it will do if someone can make themselves available full-time . |
| 17 | But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree and none shall make them afraid , for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it . |
| 18 | It meant that all one had to do was to go on contacting enough people and one would make the necessary sales . |
| 19 | If something would make your life easier , ask for it . |
| 20 | But there is a school of thought that says that if one can make the forests economically or financially valuable to the countries then they 're more likely to look after them than if you do n't . |
| 21 | If anybody can make a comeback , he will — and I 'm not one of his great admirers . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If anybody can make use of those , ’ he tells one of the residents , ‘ well , they 're welcome to them . ’ |
| 23 | If anyone can make it he can . ’ |
| 24 | as if anything could make her feel better . |
| 25 | I did n't want to at all , but nothing would make her change her mind . |
| 26 | But nothing can make up for the fact that any improvements in prescribing practice are too late to save Lexie . |
| 27 | " I do n't know what the next step will be but someone will make the breakthrough " said Cadogan . |
| 28 | We do not have 21-cm observations of this region with a sufficiently high resolution to look for evidence of a concentric outer neutral gas shell , but one can make use of an assumed uniform dust-gas ratio and examine the IRAS 100μm sky plate covering this region . |
| 29 | It is impossible to say precisely how much of England still lay in open field in 1700 or thereabouts , but one can make a rough estimate . |
| 30 | The resulting current distribution would be terribly difficult to calculate , but one can make rough guess and claim that it will flow along the dotted lines shown in Fig. 4.17(b) . |