Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] make a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the White Queen , we should perhaps make a habit of believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast ! |
| 2 | So with your pennies and her pennies I think we should all make a lot of money for Save The Children , do n't you ? |
| 3 | This would explain Gandhi 's claim that one should not make a fetish of non-violence . |
| 4 | ( c ) He must normally make a record of the search there and then unless this is impracticable . |
| 5 | You should also make a note of the serial numbers of your television , video and hi-fi equipment and any other items of value . |
| 6 | I definitely must n't make a habit of this , or none of my clothes will fit . |
| 7 | Er Chairman , yes , if I may just make a couple of , of , of , of , of , comments on , on , on the report side , I , I very much welcome the report back which I think has clarified a number of areas in the inspector 's report and what the services are actually , actually are doing about this one , I think er overall it 's er it , it , it 's , it 's very , it 's very er it 's very er very useful to see er what has been done erm I , I , I , I , I 've been assured by the Chief Officer er on item , item er , item three one at the top of page two , that the operational plans being devolved to individual sch will not apply to operational activity , they will be er to separate activity within the s er sch station , erm I did raise that because I was concerned about one station saying yes we will attend the fire and another one saying we wo n't , which obviously is not appropriate er but with that caveat I , I , I , very much welcome the report , I would like to move the proposals sch standing in , in , in , in , in my name that we commend the report as well as er er what 's on the officer 's erm er , er , er recomen er the re the recommended er resolution and that we send a copy of that , this |
| 8 | Madam Chairman if I may just make a comment of concern that information was not , on this point was not forthcoming to the county councillors of that area perhaps to make er give them an opportunity to make comment prior to you so you could make this delegated action . |
| 9 | But , even if the All Blacks are subconsciously tempted to relegate the Irish to an after-thought , it might not make a bit of difference . |
| 10 | Indeed , as Paul Du Noyer noted in NME , it might not make a sausage of difference to your diet but it 's guaranteed to leave a feeling of guilt in your head as you tuck into that rump steak . |
| 11 | However , the temperature today at the base of the Cytherean exosphere rarely exceeds about 300 K , which is too low for the thermal escape of very much hydrogen even over 4600 Ma , and chemical escape might not make a lot of difference . |
| 12 | You 'll just make a mess of it . ’ |
| 13 | Right I 'll just make a note of that . |
| 14 | So you 're feeling relaxed and comfortable and good because you 're telling me , you know , what a great tennis player I am and I really enjoy it , you 've just given me a couple of names that I 'll either make a note of or I 'll say that 's interesting cos I actually deal with Joe on a business relationship anyway erm maybe we could meet some other people from the tennis club , self employed people , professional people such as yourself , who might be interested in looking at financial planning but today I 'm more interested in talking about you Bill , erm we 'll come back to them a bit later if I may so let's press on . |
| 15 | It may sound priggish , but she says it 's unwise to go against one 's nature , its fundamental requirements , she knew that she could only make a go of it , a real go — and that was what she wanted — with some very extraordinary kind of man , and she had n't met him yet . |
| 16 | A CHIMPANZEE financial whizzkid that has beaten stock market experts could not make a monkey of British share analysts yesterday . |
| 17 | Chairman I I wonder whether I could just make a sort of general statement from the department 's view before we go on to a particular issue if I may . |
| 18 | ‘ Unix is not open , only ajar ’ , Harold Mead of Metron Data told delegates during a talk on capacity planning , going on to describe in detail how , despite the fact that while data for performance measurement and capacity planning is available from Unix through utilities such as sar , ps , mpstat ( on some multi-processors ) , acctcom and last , data was often presented with different formats and content that could easily make a nonsense of the figures . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's been such a long time , and I want you so much that I could easily make a mess of this , ’ he confessed . |
| 20 | Dead Lucky was struggling to stay in touch , but he was still there nonetheless , and if she just pushed her way out , Damien could easily make a show of snatching up . |
| 21 | ‘ Pool could n't make a copy of itself to send down the cable : it did n't have anything like enough data storage space . |
| 22 | With great hyperbole , the newspaper predicted justifications turning to sour criticism : ‘ The government should recognise that the report may well make a lot of Loyalists into Republicans . ’ |
| 23 | I surmised that these were George 's drinking companions , men who would n't make a habit of going to funerals , but there out of friendship , respect for the dead . |
| 24 | Speed and distance from the road edge probably would n't make a lot of difference if a landmine was detonated as they went by , but doing it makes everyone feel better . |
| 25 | ‘ The thing is , there 's so little time in between tournaments and already I spend so little time in Bruhl and in Boca Raton , and it would n't make a lot of sense . |
| 26 | So it 'd be perhaps a little bit bigger than this big one cos the small one would n't make a lot of difference so perhaps it would be that , that big , or something . |
| 27 | The police would go through the motions , but they would n't make a meal of it . |
| 28 | If he ca n't make a go of them , nobody can . ’ |
| 29 | No matter whether it 's the ‘ Yes ’ bank , the action bank , the thoroughbred bank , the listening bank , or the bank to which all points , you ca n't make a friend of your bank manager unless you 've got loadsamoney . |
| 30 | So and she ca I do n't know whether you noticed or she ca n't make a cup of coffee without spilling it . |