Example sentences of "[noun] can [adv] make [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agent can also make a deal with the promoter on the gross and not the net figures . |
| 2 | Animals can not make a living so simply , ; not being able to photosynthesize , they have to hunt for prepackaged food , either directly by eating plants or indirectly by eating the animals that have eaten the plants . |
| 3 | There is no reason that such a department can not make the training accessible and relevant to liberal arts and science students alike . |
| 4 | Two wrongs can not make a right . |
| 5 | Retributivism claims that it is in some way morally right to return evil for evil , that two wrongs can somehow make a right . |
| 6 | Boss Laughton insists his troubled team can still make a charge for the Stones Bitter First Division title . |
| 7 | It is suggested that this is an addition to a breach of CA 1985 , s263 which provides that the vendor can only make a distribution out of profits available for the purpose . |
| 8 | Shifts in population can soon make a nonsense of the best efforts of the boundary commissions and it is not at all unusual for the largest constituency to be over three times the size of the smallest . |
| 9 | Moreover , except by consent , the court can not make an order for possession against the tenant in the application ; so that if the tenant refuses to leave at the expiry date of his tenancy , the landlord will be compelled to take fresh proceedings against him . |
| 10 | ( c ) Presumption of no order The court can not make an order under the Act unless it considers that this would be better for the child than making no order at all ( s1(5) ) . |
| 11 | The court can specify the period the order will last ( s11(7) ( c ) ) and there are no limits on its duration although the court can not make an order which will last beyond a child 's sixteenth birthday unless there are exceptional circumstances ( s9(6) ) . |
| 12 | A court can only make a care or supervision order if satisfied : ( a ) that the child concerned is suffering , or is likely to suffer significant harm ; and ( b ) that the harm , or likelihood of harm is attributable to : ( i ) the care given to the child , or likely to be given to him if the order were not made , not being what it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to him ; or ( ii ) the child being beyond parental control ( s31 ) . |
| 13 | But the people can not make the universe themselves , without the aid of skilled and dedicated designers like Phil Schaffer and administrators like Bill Goody . |
| 14 | ‘ One rotten apple can soon make a basket o' maggots , lad , ’ said the Old Stager crisply . |
| 15 | Despite the sympathy expressed by the judge in court , there is no way in which that business man can legally make a claim against the Northern Ireland Office . |
| 16 | We shall begin our investigation of how causative verbs interact with the infinitive in English by looking at the contrast between make and cause because , although these two verbs seem quite similar in meaning , they are not followed by the same form of the infinitive : ( 134 ) While most enzymes can not make a reaction occur that would not take place in their absence , they speed up reactions so that they occur at the temperatures and other conditions which prevail within living organisms . |
| 17 | In contemporary English neither *Most enzymes can not make a reaction to occur nor * Raising the temperature of some solid and liquid compounds causes them decompose into their elements are possible . |
| 18 | A company can not make a loan to a director of the company ( see s. 330 ) . |
| 19 | ( 6 ) The Panel can also make a report of any wrongdoing to the DTI which may then use its own extensive powers to investigate the matter . |
| 20 | Cheerful little odds and ends arranged with flair can often make a room seem far more interesting than much grander collections . |
| 21 | It concentrates on its niche market using the narrow 880 metre strip at Alderney where the Trislander triumphs because the bigger aircraft can not use it , and smaller ones can not make a profit . |
| 22 | It is well established that the courts can not make a contract for the parties . |
| 23 | As a facilitator of management activities this imposes an opportunity — cost framework in that it encourages the reappraising of how differing expenditure patterns can best make a contribution to achieving organisational objectives . |
| 24 | This very brief review of about ten conservation programmes can not make the case that all national policies fail . |