Example sentences of "can make them " in BNC.

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1 Radio waves are useful as we can make them carry information by modulating them — for example , changing the amplitude of the fluctuations so that the change represents information .
2 Environment Guardian analyses this week 's proposals All muck but little money POLLUTION : The plans read well , says Julie Hill , but there is little evidence that the Government can make them work .
3 WHEN it comes to mounting a defence against hostile bidders , big German companies can tap an influential old-boy network which , together with legal takeover barriers , can make them all but impregnable .
4 You do n't want to go to the police , because you 're afraid they 'll simply get involved in another siege — if you can make them believe you in time , which seems doubtful .
5 But , Pascal tells us , we need to make the effort : ‘ Imagination can not make fools wise , but she can make them happy , to the envy of reason which can only make its friends miserable . ’
6 ‘ Aye , a heavy blow , or a deep blow — but a long knife can make them that little heavier , or deeper , and never be noticed .
7 If you are employed by a company , you can make the contributions yourself , the company can make them , or they can be shared .
8 They can take their minds off it , but it can make them irritable or ‘ difficult ’ .
9 By simplifying and emphasizing the features of major strokes we can make them easier to teach but paddle strokes are only copies of the real thing .
10 The child who has been moving boats and other objects that float on the surface of the water , suddenly discovers that he can make them sink by holding them down or pouring water on top of them .
11 ‘ Surely Davey can make them say — ‘ '
12 I can make them disappear too . ’
13 Cover the bloom with a polythene bag — or better , if you can make them up , fine muslin bags that will let the air in but keep the insects out .
14 And children facing troubles have a right not to be subjected to the ‘ system abuse ’ that may arise because of clumsy or inadequate professional intervention which — however well intentioned — can make them feel even more vulnerable , manipulated or ‘ kept in the dark ’ .
15 Quite rightly , professionals are struggling to understand the pressures of caring , and their sympathy for carers can make them ignore or misread signs of abuse , or even to interpret abuse as a response to the difficulties some elderly people present .
16 They will have suggested topics which will bind the poor as a class together ; topics which will excite them against the rich ; topics the discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches the ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable … — that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants .
17 On the other hand , feeding deer can make them half tame and easy to see .
18 Only later are unanticipated costs and benefits visible ; hindsight can make them appear deliberate all along .
19 Comment If these results seems rather too trivial to bother about , let's see if we can make them more impressive ( and less " obvious " ? ) by stating their conclusions in words : ( i ) The product of the additive identity with any integer always yields the additive identity .
20 Ah , yes , find that and you can make them tick .
21 The children of the Indians are saved , to be sold or given away as servants , or rather slaves for as long a time as the owners can make them believe themselves slaves .
22 ‘ Where the occupier of premises agrees for reward that a person shall have the right to enter and use them for a mutually contemplated purpose , the contract between the parties ( unless it provides to the contrary ) contains an implied warranty that the premises are as safe for that purpose as reasonable care and skill on the part of anyone can make them . ’
23 Because intensive livestock production renders the animals more susceptible to disease most stockmen have developed a degree of veterinary skill which can make them a decisive factor in the profitability of any livestock enterprise .
24 We have feelers , metal strips , that are one and a half thou thick , we call it , you ca n't have them any thinner because they can make them in Sheffield at one thou thick but they suffer and bend by use .
25 And er If you get a small little chickens you can make them do two days
26 Whereas Marxism-Leninism does not always take a wholly positive attitude towards the peasantry , identifying petit bourgeois tendencies — particularly amongst the less impoverished — which can make them a sometimes unreliable ally , Mariátegui and subsequent Latin American Marxists have pointed to a dual oppression — both economic and racial .
27 You can make them too .
28 Israeli children eat these pancakes during Hanukkah in December but you can make them at any time of the year .
29 On some models you can adjust the distance that the blades will open and this can make them less tiring to use for a prolonged period .
30 This can make them difficult to remove from detectors with individual ‘ drop in ’ battery compartments .
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