Example sentences of "[modal v] make [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To say , as Mr Hibbert did , that statisticians can not publicly dispute any misleading use politicians may make of official information is a weaselly argument . |
| 2 | The position of BAT leaders as assessors , funders and evaluators of projects and their role as the key link to other sectors of government may make for administrative efficiency . |
| 3 | A planted tank may make for healthier fish . |
| 4 | It may make for easier government and public convenience to restrict the tradition of marching and assembling for protest , but it would be a dangerous and a foolish idea to believe that public protest can somehow be laid aside as belonging to a bygone age . |
| 5 | In his poetry , Wordsworth uses the language of faith years before his ‘ prose mind ’ can accept Christian doctrine ; this is why his ‘ conversion ’ is impossible to date , and why there is so much divergence between the poetic and prose statements he may make at any stage in his progress . |
| 6 | One could wish that to celebrate this moving occasion ( for it is at least a partial farewell ) a master of verbal portraiture were at hand ; though so elusive is personality , so unlike the impression that the same person may make on different observers , we might well have no great faith in the verisimilitude of the sketch , if produced . |
| 7 | Erm the reasons that we were er anxious about this allocation to Harrogate erm stemmed from the point that I think somebody should make on this occasion and that is that it does seem there are two local authorities within North Yorkshire that have particularly distinguished er issues to deal with on employment . |
| 8 | In theory , this should make for greater understanding between the two , but teenagers are usually deeply absorbed in their own body and mood changes and have every excuse for not realizing that their mothers are suffering similarly and need some consideration too . |
| 9 | That they should make of one body a site where the variousness of all other bodies is in some way received . |
| 10 | For Quine there are data and there is theory , and whatever desirable internal characteristics the theory may have , its justification is achieved , if at all , in the way our verificationalist semantics taught us that it should be ; that is , by appeal to the difference that the truth of the theory should make to possible experience and by direct ( strong ) verification of whether experience does in fact go the way the theory says it should . |
| 11 | I asked Mrs a question about the appropriate approach that I should make to this site in her opinion . |
| 12 | So the decision a judge must make in hard cases is discretionary in this strong sense : it is left open by the correct understanding of past decisions . |
| 13 | That might make for excellent drama — but be prepared for it . |
| 14 | The chapter began with a discussion of the contribution that accountants might make to financial profiles for different locations on portfolio matrices , and the use and abuse of ROI . |
| 15 | There are two responses that defenders of the behavioural approach might make to this argument . |
| 16 | I wonder what Johnson might make of this press release from the British architects RMJM ? |
| 17 | Golly it 'd be interesting to know what they 'd make of this tape for the next couple of hours . |
| 18 | The only point I 'd make on that sir , you 'll see from that that the ten mile limit does extend across the county boundary into Humberside . |
| 19 | Editing could make for better sound . |
| 20 | hero-narrator of Great Expectations , known as ‘ Pip ’ because , as he explains , ‘ my father 's family name being Pirrip , and my Christian name Philip , my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip ’ . |
| 21 | My father 's family name being Pirrip , and my Christian name Philip , my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip . |
| 22 | The unintended consequences of the diminished role of the MCC were to erode the very functions of Field Chairs which made the post worthwhile , to make them less informed by removing opportunity for MCC debate and replacing it with reports of MMRC , debates , and to reduce the contribution that fields could make to Modular Course development . |
| 23 | What is the total range of possible adjustments which man theoretically could make to those fluctuations ? |
| 24 | Even as far back as 1978 the white paper on the nationalized industries welcomed the development of audit committees and the contribution they could make to improved efficiency . |
| 25 | There are various complaints one could make about this division , most of which are justified . |
| 26 | We usually gained our ends by astute and almost instinctive creation of alliances , for which we provided leadership , and small but professional military forces that were sought by friends and feared by foes for the impact they could make upon contemporary balances of power . |
| 27 | And er we used to make about six trips with a two wheeled trolley from Station to his house , two boys 'd do this job because it was very heavy work you know . |
| 28 | Tektronix Inc. claims that one high-performance team now makes as many defect-free products in 3 days as the whole assembly line used to make in 14 days with twice as many people . |
| 29 | Towards the end of our conversation he asked me what use I would make of documented evidence that the Japs in Burma had a far-reaching plan to destroy the Buddhist system of monasteries and monks . |
| 30 | In 1973 I started investigating what difference the uncertainty principle would make to black holes . |