Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] could make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Premack 's plastic tokens which Sarah , his only real success , was required to arrange in series on the magnetised slate , were designed to discover the extent to which she could make judgements about the qualities of objects ; for example , ‘ the apple is red and round ’ . |
| 2 | Aberconwy Borough Council said the damage figure passed the point at which they could make requests for financial help to the Government . |
| 3 | Predictably , they took the parts from which they could make money . |
| 4 | There is clearly force in this ‘ equal treatment ’ argument , which was later deployed in defence of the Schlunk decision by the United States delegation at a Special Commission of the Hague Conference held in April 1989 ; but as between the United Sates and the German Federal Republic it is German plaintiffs who emerge at a disadvantage , for German law has no doctrine similar to that of involuntary agency of which they could make use . |
| 5 | There was nothing we could make stick so he got away with it . ’ |
| 6 | He also warned : ‘ I prefer it not to be carried because the Conservatives , who are desperately clinging at straws because of the popularity of our policy , against the irrelevance of theirs , would do what they could to make mischief about it . ’ |