Example sentences of "can [be] make of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar statement can be made of the presbyterian community , which is almost wholly Northern , and whose main Southern presbytery is in the counties of old Ulster which remain in the Republic — Donegal , Cavan , and Monaghan . |
| 2 | If there are thought to be sufficient similarities between the markets in two or more countries , comparisons can be made of selected statistics from each . |
| 3 | A great advantage of these tests — one that was not found in ‘ real ’ tasks — is that sets of them can be made of equal difficulty . |
| 4 | A general use can be made of ideas of particulars . |
| 5 | Mortgages can be made of chattels personal as well as of land . |
| 6 | Yet too much can be made of these awards and rewards , these comforts and pressing benefits . |
| 7 | It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it . |
| 8 | Maybe at the end of our enquiry we shall decide that no philosophical sense can be made of the world — and the world does not seem to be primarily linguistic . |
| 9 | What sense can be made of divine as opposed to human ‘ personality ’ ? |
| 10 | In situations of this kind provisions governing access and format may exert powerful constraints on the use that can be made of these data . |
| 11 | Finally they suggest how better use can be made of the resources . |
| 12 | It may be possible to gain access to past records so that a realistic assessment can be made of achievable levels ; alternatively , in the absence of any historical data , utopian levels ( eg 100% ) could be set initially , then modified if the auditing process highlights that they are unattainable . |
| 13 | Collections can be made of things that we use ‘ in the garden ’ or ‘ in the kitchen ’ , for instance . |
| 14 | Some equipment will be more suited to dry or wet sand , though it is sometimes interesting for the children to try using the funnel , for instance , with the wet sand , and comparison can be made of the way the different types of sand feel and behave . |
| 15 | ‘ Staff are selected on the basis of whether the course is directly relevant and how much practical use can be made of the training ’ … |
| 16 | The ears can be made out of felt and a small tail can be made of cotton wool . |
| 17 | These straps can be made of thick tape , sewn through and on either side of the sail with a curtain ring or similar kite ring ( the ‘ D ’ rings are ideal ) held fairly close to the edge of the kite . |
| 18 | God , how novelists recover ! … and you begin to wonder how you can make use of it with a little shifting here , and a little adding there , something can be made of it , surely ? ’ |
| 19 | You 'll need two cars for this one , but a round can be made of the traverse by coming back via the Brandy Pad . |
| 20 | There are , however , a number of valid criticisms which can be made of the study . |
| 21 | Of course , that epistemology faces problems of persuasive justification does not , by itself , entail that no use can be made of empirical beliefs . |
| 22 | But far too much can be made of this . |
| 23 | They too assume that if only their methods are pursued well enough , sense can be made of the most intense , idiosyncratic experience . |
| 24 | Perhaps some sense can be made of regarding hypothetical imperatives as objectively true , since they can be taken as statements about what needs to be done to achieve something , but how can there be a categorical imperative , with no one to command it ? |
| 25 | On this side of the Atlantic , much the same criticism can be made of the common fisheries policy of the European Community . |
| 26 | In Chapter 4 I argue that the concept of women 's ‘ domesticity ’ which is used loosely in sociological writing needs to be broken down into a number of more precise concepts before much sense can be made of women 's similarities/differences on this dimension . |
| 27 | Here at least was force , and something can be made of that . ’ |
| 28 | Gradually , however , Paul 's position becomes the only one whereby sense can be made of the situation . |
| 29 | ( Counts can be made of the occurrence of individual letters in specific word positions , and of pairs or triplets of letters , when estimating the spatial redundancy of a word . ) |
| 30 | Basically , The function is the same as for the Language Master — a recording can be made of written language which is displayed for the pupil — but the Audio Page runs for 4 minutes where the Language Master only provides at most about 10 seconds of time . |