Example sentences of "[conj] we [modal v] make [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main criticism of transcendent philosophies is that though the ideas are beautiful and those who live by their precepts can be happy , yet men ask what relevance the philosophies have for our modern world of materialism where we must make progress and raise humanity out of starvation and ignorance . |
| 2 | Erm or we can make application for legal aid to go to court for a residence and contact order now . |
| 3 | I hope that we shall make progress , along the cautious lines suggested by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister this afternoon , on a common foreign and defence policy . |
| 4 | So that we can make money . |
| 5 | I do not think either that we can make sense of the Devil in the language of contemporary philosophy or science ; on the other hand neither do I believe that we should try and invent a modern mythology that makes the Devil more credible and accessible . |
| 6 | What we can do is attempt to get hold of the rules of the game so that we can make sense of a game as it is played . |
| 7 | It is in virtue of such rules that we can make sense of the idea that we are objectively correct to call the new sensation a pain . |
| 8 | I hope that he will be speedy with it so that we can make progress and that he will not read from the document before him . |
| 9 | Indeed , we have all agreed , I take it the recommendations under eight one in order that we can make progress . |
| 10 | She might have agreed with my friend Roger Hinks — who , after his unmerited disgrace over the too energetic cleaning of the Elgin Marbles , left the British Museum to work for years for the British Council — that the compensation for having acquaintances is that we can make game of them with our friends . |
| 11 | We took our own sandwiches for lunch and a teacher would boil a kettle so we could make tea or cocoa for ourselves . |
| 12 | " But he 's only going over for our sakes — so we can make contact . " |
| 13 | ‘ And we can make life very difficult for you . |
| 14 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 15 | Nor will we win the war , but we will make progress . |
| 16 | I am writing to ask you whether we might make use of an item broadcast by ITN on 22 March 1989 . |
| 17 | But I 'd like to see you again , when we can make time . |
| 18 | Unfortunately this is a calculation which can be made only very crudely since it is impossible to say with total accuracy ( even though we can make control sample comparisons ) ( a ) which clients would have been institutionalised in the absence of the project , and ( b ) whether they would have been admitted to a long-stay hospital or to residential accommodation . |