Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb mod] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All right , so I did , muttered Sam , but I can make mine come true if I work hard . |
| 2 | Do n't use awkward subdivisions of the scale ; stick to units , twos and fives ; computers can calculate accurately how to plot on scales rising by sevens but you will make mistakes . |
| 3 | You ca n't stop a lot of the environmental damage being done but you can make efforts to reduce it by acting ‘ green ’ . |
| 4 | You 'll still have to watch them like hawks — but you can make life easier by taking these room-by-room steps . |
| 5 | ‘ But you can make nuts and bolts listen to you . |
| 6 | ‘ True , we do n't , not all of it , but we can make things difficult for you — ’ |
| 7 | You see we can not always help who our brothers and sisters are but we can make alliances of people on issues of liberation and freedom that goes beyond that narrow family relationship and develops into a very solid alliance that helps to change situations . |
| 8 | Nor will we win the war , but we will make progress . |
| 9 | We do not have 21-cm observations of this region with a sufficiently high resolution to look for evidence of a concentric outer neutral gas shell , but one can make use of an assumed uniform dust-gas ratio and examine the IRAS 100μm sky plate covering this region . |
| 10 | In practice if you are back checking files and such like , if you find something that is current word which should comply and you find something that has n't been appropriately signed or whatever , if it 's easy to get it done yes do it yes , if it 's not easy to get it done erm , it may be , you 've got to use your judgement because I do n't want you to go into a lot of work , but it may make sense to make a final note we are aware that this was n't done correctly this person has been reminded , or |
| 11 | The downturn is too recent to assess from the point of view of recruiting , but it may make people more cautious about moving to the City . ’ |
| 12 | For example , " walked " might be substituted in 1. , but it would make nonsense in the other three contexts . |
| 13 | But it can make things a lot better for the sick , wounded and prisoners , as it was meant to . |
| 14 | We know that legislation alone can not provide a remedy , but it can make convictions easier to obtain . |