Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [adv] make [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But even Christians of a more liberal variety must necessarily make reference to a past age .
2 Although most DNA is in the B form , whose structure was originally determined by Watson and Crick , there is no reason why the cell should not make use of other forms as well , and indeed Alex Rich ( MIT ) described a protein binding with high affinity to the left-handed helix of Z-DNA that he first described .
3 There is the economic risk that the investment will not make electricity any cheaper , and the less quantifiable but no less real political risk to the CEGB and government of introducing a controversial new technology into the UK .
4 Although concentrating mainly on Britain , the study will also make reference to LFS data for France and Germany — countries where public policies promoting and facilitating early withdrawal are more developed .
5 Thinking can only make use of the patterns we have acquired in the past .
6 Historical study can not make place for any such absoluteness , let alone demonstrate it .
7 From a practical point of view the cost of administration can often make interest charging and collecting more of a minus than a plus .
8 Shift work could also make attendance at ATB courses difficult though in one case a part-time farmer had given his local organiser a copy of his shift programme for the next six months !
9 Personal spirituality can only make progress if it is in partnership with social spirituality .
10 The child can not make sense of the world without pattern , without events that repeat .
11 ( We have taken care here to ensure that an unscrupulous user could not make use of the calculus of expressions to reason about the large scale structure of programs .
12 The purchaser will sometimes make completion conditional on receiving a satisfactory surveyor 's report in relation to the property .
13 We have already seen ( paragraph 7–05 ) that the time of delivery is normally ‘ of the essence , ’ i.e. if a delivery date is stipulated and the seller can not make delivery by that date , that is a breach of condition and the buyer is entitled to repudiate the contract and sue for non-delivery .
14 She 's told him trying to get her back may only make life in Pakistan more difficult for her .
15 And , of course , in the same way a student going on to university or polytechnic may immediately make use of some of the Wissenschaft , the actual knowledge , he has acquired at school .
16 Really , if such a preposterous notion could ever make sense Everything fitted .
17 A duty to act in the interests of the entity or enterprise would therefore make sense if understood as a duty to benefit a range of corporate ‘ constituencies ’ , permitting the directors to balance the various interests as they see fit in the take-over or any other context .
18 So far chemical methods had failed to produce purification , and it had also turned out that matter precipitated from dirty water would not make fertilizer of great value .
19 The surface at Colombo 's SSC Ground is not as helpful as those produced in India , but Warnaweera and Muralidharan will not make life easy .
20 Normally , in the absence of contrary agreement , the buyer need not make payment until delivery is made , section 28 .
21 We shall suggest that formal attempts to identify topics are doomed to failure , but that the discourse analyst may usefully make appeal to notions like ‘ speaking topically ’ and ‘ the speaker 's topic ’ within a ‘ topic framework ’ .
22 Those ratepayers already paying General Rates by this method must also make application .
23 To eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil will therefore make man like God .
24 I 'm no fool , but that sentence would n't make sense to any insect .
25 There is no reason in principle why a small firm should not make pension provision on the same scale as a large employer .
26 The Government must then make time for the resolution to be discussed although , as the Government has a majority and can normally force its measures through , it is unusual for such resolutions to be unsuccessful .
27 This may be left out and the main clause will still make sense : Christchurch College , Oxford , which we visited yesterday , is one of the largest in the University .
28 Of course , the message will only make sense if it can be successfully decompressed when it reaches the user .
29 Johnson : ‘ Sir , a man can not make fire but in proportion as he has fuel .
30 The redirection will probably make Corollary the only company to produce a generic P5 multiprocessor board and chipset targeted at OEMs .
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