Example sentences of "an [noun sg] can make " in BNC.
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| 1 | An act can make a successful first LP which may have taken five or seven years for a band 's songwriters to create . |
| 2 | ‘ And microphone placement is very important , ’ Bryan interjects , ‘ because if you take a speaker , the difference between the centre of the cone and the outside can vary the sound so drastically that an inch can make the difference between a good and a shit guitar sound . |
| 3 | Bereavement can have devastating effects on our defensive cells , but even something as minor as taking an exam can make us more vulnerable to infection . |
| 4 | The Supreme Court 's ruling … has given politicians the power to intrude on the most personal decision an American can make — whether or not to have an abortion . |
| 5 | The context makes clear , though , that American refers exclusively to American women , since it is only women and not men for whom this is ‘ the most personal decision an American can make ’ . |
| 6 | But the question is , what is involved in the assumption that there are different ontological existents not just different topics of discourse ; what conditions must be fulfilled before such an assumption can make clear sense ? |
| 7 | Perhaps an illustration can make this difference clear : faced with the word saucer to read aloud , there are only a limited number of ways in which it can be read , given the rules of English orthography . |
| 8 | The minimum donation which an individual can make under the Gift Aid is £600. the total donations which an individual may make under Gift Aid in any tax year must not exceed £5,000,000 . |