Example sentences of "may [adv] make [noun] " 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 | She 's told him trying to get her back may only make life in Pakistan more difficult for her . |
| 3 | Doubtless this means the end of straight arithmetical calculation , but it may still make sense to speak of informed judgements as to which patterns of pleasurable experience form more pleasurable lives . |
| 4 | Firms may also make provision for bridging loans or provide temporary mortgage facilities . |
| 5 | They may also make projections as to their own future behaviour and the likely response of other international participants , in the expectation that a treaty between other States will be performed . |
| 6 | A licensing board may make regulations with respect to the making of applications for licences ( including occasional licences and occasional permissions ) , extension of permitted hours and restriction of the terminal permitted hours and the procedure following thereon , and such regulations may include provisions designed to assist the board in determining the fitness of applicants to hold licences and the expediency of granting licences for the premises in respect of which application is made ; and the board may also make regulations with respect to the procedure to be followed in transferring licences under this Act and with respect to any matters which , by virtue of this Act , may be prescribed . |
| 7 | Central government may also make grants towards some approved capital expenditure ( see Table 6.2 ) . |
| 8 | Overfertilization by nitrogen may also make trees more palatable to insects . |
| 9 | Parties and their legal advisers , as well as welfare organizations , may also make representations that a decision should be reported . |
| 10 | If the player is quick , he may unwittingly make use of the upward bounce of the hammer , making the touch unexpectedly light . |
| 11 | And , of course , in the same way a student going on to university or polytechnic may immediately make use of some of the Wissenschaft , the actual knowledge , he has acquired at school . |
| 12 | That 's exactly what I was going to say , Mr Chairman , it 's , it might be as Mr says , or it may , it may well make matters worse , I do n't think we should get into the debate on how the national government are doing , |
| 13 | A reduction in the rate of interest ( r ) following an increase in money supply may well make bond holding less attractive , but this does not mean that the extra money will be mainly held in idle balances . |
| 14 | Students want a rapid return of tests for three reasons : they like to feel that they are not being neglected and that correcting their work is considered important by the tutors ; they want to see the result of their attempts while they are still fresh from their memories and they need to see the results of tests before attempting the next one , since tutors may well make comments which will help them to improve . |
| 15 | We shall suggest that formal attempts to identify topics are doomed to failure , but that the discourse analyst may usefully make appeal to notions like ‘ speaking topically ’ and ‘ the speaker 's topic ’ within a ‘ topic framework ’ . |
| 16 | Mr Gates may yet make Microsoft as powerful in communications , multimedia , entertainment and information as it is today in software . |
| 17 | In general , businesses prefer to avoid the courts , litigation ( and even lawyers ) so far as possible , and the terms may therefore make provision for settlement of disputes by arbitration , or by one of the other systems of alternative dispute resolution , such as conciliation , which are now available . |
| 18 | The parents may continually make requests that the child ignores and the parents lose their temper . |