Example sentences of "they [modal v] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To further subdivide them may make record-keeping impossibly complicated . |
| 2 | Now , if you consider all possible ways in which the rocks of Mont Blanc could have been thrown together , it is true that only one of them would make Mont Blanc as we know it . |
| 3 | Users of software should confirm that they may make back-up copies of any programs they have acquired . |
| 4 | However , once divisions are given some independence they may make decisions that are not in the best interests of the group as a whole . |
| 5 | Take special care with young cyclists ; they may make mistakes through inexperience . |
| 6 | They prefer to associate with the machine rather than with human beings , although they may make exceptions for fellow hackers . |
| 7 | They may make use of the brevity of Latin tags , just as pithy as any adman 's lingo . |
| 8 | Instead , as soon as they have found out something of what a word means , they may make use of it . |
| 9 | Faced with a wide range of demands and severe shortages of funding , they must make decisions about priorities , and in the last analysis the creation of a scheme of priorities for provision — though based upon a complex pattern of evidence about user requirements — must in part be the result of the librarian 's own judgement . |
| 10 | There are other factors that recommend elimination , not least being the fact that everyone else is moving in the same direction ; so if British car makers want to sell their vehicles abroad , as surely they must , they must make car engines that run without lead . |
| 11 | If MPs want an easy life , they should make way for people who are willing to work hard for their country . |
| 12 | One of the beefs I have about accommodation for elderly people is the fact that by , that the purpose built , very excellent , bungalows and flats for elderly citizens are restricted to one bedroom which , to which but is by government decree to keep the cost down , but it does seem to me to be very heartless because elderly people 's children are unable to come and stay with them except to the great deal of discomfort and perhaps as society grows a little more considerate for the fact that the percentage of elderly people will get even greater as the years go on , then they should make allowance and provide them for the facilities to enable them to be visited by their children and grandchildren . |
| 13 | Unfortunately their first action was to ask those already within the system of whom they should make enquiries . |
| 14 | This might help them to see his lack of social responsiveness as a symptom of his illness and something for which they should make allowances rather than as an unfriendly act or a personal slight on their company . |
| 15 | You 'd think no-one else had ever made a film except him and you can see him coming on all good mates with the crew so they 'll make things easier for him when he gets in front of camera , so he looks five years younger and I get the shiny nose . |
| 16 | While they might make allowances , they would need to be paid . |
| 17 | Floy had spent several hours in deep discussion with Snodgrass and , between them , they had made an attempt to sketch out the layout of Tara , so that they could see if there were any weak areas they might make use of . |
| 18 | They thought they could make fun of a country girl , but my answer took them by surprise . |
| 19 | The companies are concerned about planned speed restrictions on Skerne Park through ‘ sleeping policeman ’ type humps in the road , saying they could make journeys slower , uncomfortable and uneconomical . |
| 20 | And the recently discovered structure of atoms gave them the idea that they could make helium out of hydrogen . |
| 21 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 22 | Their own earnings were fabulous and they could make money for their followers as well . |
| 23 | John — fit and well — said : ‘ The clinic 's doctors just tried to fool me I was dying so they could make money . ’ |
| 24 | Companies responsible for its prospects have gone out of business seven times , discovering that while they could make money on the big promotions , the building and park were too expensive to run on a tickover basis ( nowadays the park alone costs £650,000 a year to maintain ) , and in an earlier era of six-day working weeks , the public had not much leisure time to spend there anyway . |
| 25 | Predictably , they took the parts from which they could make money . |
| 26 | This is closely linked to their passivity : it does not occur to them that they could make changes in their world . |
| 27 | Aberconwy Borough Council said the damage figure passed the point at which they could make requests for financial help to the Government . |
| 28 | With Motif at large in the Sun community , IBM and DEC are confident they could make inroads into the Sun installed base swapping out Sun machines for their own . |
| 29 | whereas he 's got ta he says just one round here so they could make decisions for you . |
| 30 | She longed to wake him so that they could make love again but did not dare to because , for all the intimacy of the previous hours , Constance knew that she was lying next to a virtual stranger . |