Example sentences of "make [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time , of course , unemployment was not the major issue it is today , neither did we have the burden of AIDS , but I still maintain that the most important changes we can make are the ones inside our own heads . |
| 2 | The regulations which a licensing board may make are concerned with procedure only . |
| 3 | Most of the generalisations one could make are probably true for a lot of other languages as well . |
| 4 | Such attempts as we can make are essential . |
| 5 | Will any equivalent make be alright ? |
| 6 | The truckers ' strike during July and August 1973 was also largely motivated by controls — the shortages of spare parts for their trucks , official discrimination against them in favour of state-run firms , and the fact that the charges which they could make were fixed by the government but not adjusted to take into account the rapid rate of inflation . |
| 7 | ( One , untestable , assumption which most reductionists would make is that conscious experiences can not precede the neural events underlying them . ) |
| 8 | The most generous excuse one can make is that Brooke was deliberately misled by his advisers . |
| 9 | About the only contribution information technology can make is to assist in the compilation of cricket statistics . |
| 10 | Increasingly , chief executives are being persuaded — by a sales pitch which asserts that the most expensive mistake a company can make is to promote the wrong executive to a key job — to hire psychometric testers to analyse their management options . |
| 11 | What should become apparent is that , while companies do make substantial financial contributions , a more important contribution they can make is expertise and management skills . ’ |
| 12 | The best comparison one can make is with either a largely exactly contemporary set of recordings on a Vogue Savoy collection , ‘ Original Bird — The Best of Bird on Savoy ’ ( Vogue , full price ) or a similarly anthological album highlighting his slightly later ( 1946–47 ) efforts for the Comet and Dial labels , namely ‘ Bird Symbols ’ ( Rhapsody , full price ) . |
| 13 | I think it 's terrific , the only proviso I would make is that I 'm not prepared to do a parachute jump . |
| 14 | The proposition that there are no laws which Parliament may not make is one which has been uttered frequently . |
| 15 | The most valuable resolve anyone who has decided to care for an elderly relative can make is to give her all the love and loyalty you can but without becoming a martyr in the process , for martyrdom in such circumstances often breeds repressed resentment , which eventually boils over into words and actions that are later bitterly regretted . |
| 16 | The only point I would make is that you must wait until they are willing reflectively to turn around before you start operating with the abstractions . |
| 17 | The best recommendation Gandalf can make is not to think about such things . |
| 18 | ‘ The biggest mistake you can make is to go to someone who 's just separated and say , ‘ I 'm glad you left him or her . |
| 19 | One defence the ministry will make is that most trade statistics ignore services . |
| 20 | I 'm Mrs and er the point I wan na make is that I understood when Jimmy Jones came here had two lovely full houses but I heard through the building through the grapevine that the members of the trust or council objected to him because he was racist his jokes and sexist . |
| 21 | I hope that as chairman of ICI the contribution that I can make is to be looked upon by people on all levels as someone whose experience they can call on at any time . |
| 22 | The first very fascinating discovery a visitor to Alvingham will make is that this small village has two churches in one churchyard . |
| 23 | The only point that I would make is that if you are giving an opiate it will have many of the same effects and if I had to choose , I would probably prefer the opiate to diazepam . |
| 24 | The other reason is that there are at least some rules for judging advertisements , but most of these are based firmly in the objectives which the ads are trying to achieve : if we do not know what the objectives are , any judgement we may make is without a real foundation . |
| 25 | One of the great claims that inspectors would no doubt make is their fairness to both teachers and the public . |
| 26 | The only change I would perhaps make is to increase the lighting level slightly . |
| 27 | Private MPs rise and ask for time for this or that motion or debate which they particularly want , but normally the only concessions the Leader of the House will make is through ‘ the usual channels ’ , that is in private discussions with the opposition Chief Whip . |
| 28 | Probably the only assumption that we can safely make is that ‘ our man ’ , as you call him , is still in the area . ’ |
| 29 | The second point I would make is as to timing . |
| 30 | Well , i i if I , the , on one of the comments I 'd make is that it 's the only time I 've ever known the accounting profession to do businessmen a favour by forcing them to face up to what the costs of the consequences of their actions are and this has as James said led to looking quite carefully and I think it 's difficult to quantify the cost at the moment for a variety of reasons . |