Example sentences of "can make [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most generous excuse one can make is that Brooke was deliberately misled by his advisers . |
| 2 | About the only contribution information technology can make is to assist in the compilation of cricket statistics . |
| 3 | Increasingly , chief executives are being persuaded — by a sales pitch which asserts that the most expensive mistake a company can make is to promote the wrong executive to a key job — to hire psychometric testers to analyse their management options . |
| 4 | What should become apparent is that , while companies do make substantial financial contributions , a more important contribution they can make is expertise and management skills . ’ |
| 5 | The best comparison one can make is with either a largely exactly contemporary set of recordings on a Vogue Savoy collection , ‘ Original Bird — The Best of Bird on Savoy ’ ( Vogue , full price ) or a similarly anthological album highlighting his slightly later ( 1946–47 ) efforts for the Comet and Dial labels , namely ‘ Bird Symbols ’ ( Rhapsody , full price ) . |
| 6 | The most valuable resolve anyone who has decided to care for an elderly relative can make is to give her all the love and loyalty you can but without becoming a martyr in the process , for martyrdom in such circumstances often breeds repressed resentment , which eventually boils over into words and actions that are later bitterly regretted . |
| 7 | The best recommendation Gandalf can make is not to think about such things . |
| 8 | ‘ The biggest mistake you can make is to go to someone who 's just separated and say , ‘ I 'm glad you left him or her . |
| 9 | I hope that as chairman of ICI the contribution that I can make is to be looked upon by people on all levels as someone whose experience they can call on at any time . |
| 10 | In the absence of dose-response studies , the only important point we can make is that transit was accelerated across the ICJ by a dose if ia 5HT that did not induce ileal secretion in vivo . |
| 11 | The only thing I can make is my normal , what I call a family fruit cake , which is very simple and quick i well not quick really but , I usually have it on when the Sunday roast 's doing so but erm and that 's about it , you know . |
| 12 | Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives . |