Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [modal v] make [pron] " in BNC.

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1 If your organization is slap-happy it will unnerve candidates and may make them think twice before accepting a job with you .
2 An application is not necessarily unreasonable because it is inconvenient for the addressee of the application or causes him considerable work or may make him vulnerable to future claims , or is addressed to a person who is not an officer or employee of or contractor with the company in administration , but all of these will be among the factors relevant to be taken into consideration ( post , pp. 862H — 863A , 864C ) .
3 An application is not necessarily unreasonable because it is inconvenient for the addressee of the application or causes him a lot of work or may make him vulnerable to future claims , or is addressed to a person who is not an officer or employee of or a contractor with the company in administration , but all these will be relevant factors , together no doubt with many others .
4 Because I retained a few French words and phrases and could make myself understood in his language he had assumed a much wider knowledge than I possessed .
5 In the second half when we went at them we forced plenty of corners but could make nothing of them .
6 FORMER Middlesbrough defender Owen McGee has joined Fourth Division Scarborough on trial and could make his debut against Halifax Town on Saturday .
7 I will shortly be preparing more detailed notes and will make them available to you as soon as they are completed .
8 ‘ A good teacher is someone who 'll take a good joke but will make us work to get the work done .
9 She was a sweet , loving person and would make someone a wonderful wife .
10 ‘ We feel it is only further embittering loyalist paramilitaries and will make them even more hard-line .
11 You know if you 're out on strike you 're out on strike and must make it hundred percent , that 's how it is .
12 Or had it been something more subtle , a pledge that , despite everything , they were allies , that he understood her priorities and would make them his ?
13 She knew her own areas of brilliance , she was a political philosopher and would make her mark in that subject if given time .
14 The argument is that we or others have made mistakes in the past or would make them in circumstances which , so far as we can tell , are not relevantly different from our present circumstances .
15 Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn
16 The correct equipment is particularly important for cake making and decorating and can make your work much easier .
17 An American editor deleted a comment from one of her books when a father tells his daughter : ‘ Do n't bother about school because you 're a pretty little thing and will make someone a good wife . ’
18 I have given up all idea now of going to Kings and shall make my way across the Island as quickly as I can making a call or two on the way .
19 Man is master of his own destiny and must make his god accordingly , i.e. the Created God of this book .
20 The cables from the all-purpose I/O and drive controller card stretch across two slots and would make it awkward to fit any tall cards in either of them .
21 He said : ‘ We shall certainly study the trust proposals with care and will make our views strongly felt .
22 The majority of their team has played the neighbouring Gorleston course on a number of occasions and should make their local knowledge count .
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