Example sentences of "that he [vb mod] make [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual views were advanced — that he would make prison too ‘ soft ’ and too attractive ; that treating lawbreakers well would encourage more crime and that prisoners were undeserving and irredeemable , anyway . |
| 2 | I found it incredible that he could make money doing that . |
| 3 | He learnt that he could make love and come both in haste and with impressive slowness , for five minutes or for three hours , without asking either for more or for less time from his partner but fitting in with their timing . |
| 4 | And she knew that this outing had been contrived by him so that he could make progress with her . |
| 5 | Without this kind of analytical framework , respecting the complex levels of mediation involved and their relative autonomy , Elvis becomes simply the plaything of naked political forces ( rebellious/manipulative ) ; and the fact that the young rock 'n' roller sang ballads from the start , that the older Hollywood star could still sing rock 'n' roll songs and was still respected by rock 'n' roll fans , that his ‘ blues ’ were ‘ romantic ’ ( a kind of fantasy ) , his ballads often ‘ realistic ’ ( given flesh ) , or that he could make boogification ironic — all this is inexplicable . |
| 6 | And there is always the ultimate unbundler 's defence — that he will make money for his backers . |
| 7 | If the attitudinist can make sense of deductive reasoning as applied to ethical statements , it seems that he can make sense of the embedding of ethical sentences in complex sentences where the attitude they would express on their own is , so to speak , held in reserve . |