Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 2 | Okay erm let's perhaps make a few comments then about the Vienna settlement itself . |
| 3 | This provides that a court may only make a care order if it is satisfied that the child concerned is suffering significant harm . |
| 4 | Without a scientific analysis public policy-makers may only make the problem worse . |
| 5 | She 's told him trying to get her back may only make life in Pakistan more difficult for her . |
| 6 | The wind must be blowing from them to you , since this not only minimises the noise you may inadvertently make but it prevents your scent blowing towards the rabbits and giving them advance warning that all 's not well . |
| 7 | Increased frailty may suddenly make a house or flat , lived in for years , totally unsuitable — the garden is too big to manage , upstairs bedrooms become inaccessible , or getting to the shops and other local services presents difficulties . |
| 8 | If people try to apply a ‘ turning off the tap ’ strategy when they are hopping up and down in scalding water they may merely make themselves feel worse . |
| 9 | This may take a few iterations to achieve a good balance , but should eventually make the zero crossings correspond to more or less zero field . |
| 10 | If the poetry of the early part of the eighteenth century is already grappling with the problems associated with a realistic treatment of agricultural labour , it is not surprising that an agricultural labourer should eventually make an impact as a poet . |
| 11 | The smaller Gulf states had already decided that , under threat from their ex-champion Iraq , they should sensibly make up with their ex-enemy Iran . |
| 12 | Like the White Queen , we should perhaps make a habit of believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast ! |
| 13 | However , I should perhaps make it clear that the position I have outlined is a very extreme form of inductivism . |
| 14 | On a larger scale one might observe that his lifelong preoccupation with words gave him a kind of sensitivity to them , even if it was an unorthodox one ; and further that it is strange that a myth should so make its way if enshrined and embodied in words as inappropriate as critics have made out . |
| 15 | If you are married or living together as a couple , you should only make one joint claim ( any other members of your household should make a separate claim ) . |
| 16 | Your Lord if one turns to the issues of reference , er the commercial quarters as we discussed yesterday should only make a reference if it 's necessary to do so in order to resolve the case and has the discretion whether to make a reference under article one seven , seven |
| 17 | Therefore they must necessarily make reference to that history . |
| 18 | But even Christians of a more liberal variety must necessarily make reference to a past age . |
| 19 | Whatever was meant to be payable at all , under this agreement , was clearly to be payable by half-yearly instalments of £150 each ; any other construction must necessarily make the conditional promise nugatory . |
| 20 | She hardened her heart and thought she should swiftly make it clear she had not come in search of him . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | Indeed , the casual indifference of this earlier document makes it quite clear what the English were after ; France , as the later memorandum said , must not make Scotland a ‘ footstool ’ to look over England , and whether that be resolved , as the memorial of the 8th put it , by Mary 's heir Châtelherault or by her bastard half-brother lord James , should he have designs on the crown , really did not matter . |
| 23 | She must not make capital out of her distress , on the one hand ; on the other the items were quite small and there was no need to humiliate herself . |
| 24 | Although he must not make any physical effort , you should allow him to follow the sequence of movements that you are making , and tell him what you are doing and why . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course I know that I must not make this mistake . |
| 26 | Dr Leslie Weatherhead wrote , in Prescription for Anxiety , ‘ Deadness of feeling , even if we think we do not love anybody , not even God , must not make us worry . |
| 27 | Parents of allergic children have to walk a tightrope — on the one hand they need to warn their child about things to avoid , but on the other hand they must not make the child over-anxious . |
| 28 | Once licensed , the lender must not make an ‘ extortionate ’ charge for the loan . |
| 29 | You must not make contact until you are over your border . ’ |
| 30 | In addition , the investigator must not make the ( conscious or unconscious ) assumption that the size of the sample makes careful attention to the wording of the interview unnecessary . |