Example sentences of "can [adv] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A court can only make a care or supervision order if satisfied : ( a ) that the child concerned is suffering , or is likely to suffer significant harm ; and ( b ) that the harm , or likelihood of harm is attributable to : ( i ) the care given to the child , or likely to be given to him if the order were not made , not being what it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to him ; or ( ii ) the child being beyond parental control ( s31 ) . |
| 2 | Of course they can only make a living in this way if they are faster than other dealers in the market . |
| 3 | It is suggested that this is an addition to a breach of CA 1985 , s263 which provides that the vendor can only make a distribution out of profits available for the purpose . |
| 4 | Retributivism claims that it is in some way morally right to return evil for evil , that two wrongs can somehow make a right . |
| 5 | If that happens you can not make a will . |
| 6 | It is well established that the courts can not make a contract for the parties . |
| 7 | J said : " The cases are quite clear that you can not make a valuer an arbitrator by calling him so or vice versa " . |
| 8 | It concentrates on its niche market using the narrow 880 metre strip at Alderney where the Trislander triumphs because the bigger aircraft can not use it , and smaller ones can not make a profit . |
| 9 | There can be few of us who can not make a daisy chain with our eyes closed — and who could forget the daisy-spangled downs and pastures where we loved to picnic ? |
| 10 | You can not make a mistake . ’ |
| 11 | Governments argue that they can not make a development omelette without breaking heads . |
| 12 | ‘ If your own family is so badly brought up , ’ thundered a Scottish columnist , ‘ so lacking in moral fibre that it can not make a go of its marriages , what price all those Christmas homilies ? ’ |
| 13 | A record-player will translate information carried as undulations in a groove into sound , but not back again : you can not make a record by shouting at the loudspeaker of a record-player . |
| 14 | We can not make a judgment without knowing what your resources are . ’ |
| 15 | We shall begin our investigation of how causative verbs interact with the infinitive in English by looking at the contrast between make and cause because , although these two verbs seem quite similar in meaning , they are not followed by the same form of the infinitive : ( 134 ) While most enzymes can not make a reaction occur that would not take place in their absence , they speed up reactions so that they occur at the temperatures and other conditions which prevail within living organisms . |
| 16 | In contemporary English neither *Most enzymes can not make a reaction to occur nor * Raising the temperature of some solid and liquid compounds causes them decompose into their elements are possible . |
| 17 | To summarise , it moves independently in the same way as a large monster or individual character model , can not make a march move , but is obviously unaffected by penalties for wheeling or turning as such manoeuvres are unnecessary . |
| 18 | If they can not make a living from the Herdwick the breed will disappear , which would be an irrevocable loss of an animal which is such an important part of the Lakeland landscape . |
| 19 | Within a given political economy where there is a ‘ free ’ market for labour ( taking this , hypothetically as given ) , labour becomes so plentiful and therefore cheap that it can not make a living . |
| 20 | Animals can not make a living so simply , ; not being able to photosynthesize , they have to hunt for prepackaged food , either directly by eating plants or indirectly by eating the animals that have eaten the plants . |
| 21 | That 's why just can not make a living . |
| 22 | Two wrongs can not make a right . |
| 23 | ‘ You can not make a habit of coming here . ’ |
| 24 | A company can not make a loan to a director of the company ( see s. 330 ) . |
| 25 | Cause , in contrast , evokes only indirect involvement of its agent in bringing the comments into being : a " 6-inch torrent of water " can not make a comment but the fact of its passage through someone 's lot might certainly provoke uncharitable remarks from the owner . |
| 26 | As a facilitator of management activities this imposes an opportunity — cost framework in that it encourages the reappraising of how differing expenditure patterns can best make a contribution to achieving organisational objectives . |
| 27 | Shifts in population can soon make a nonsense of the best efforts of the boundary commissions and it is not at all unusual for the largest constituency to be over three times the size of the smallest . |
| 28 | ‘ One rotten apple can soon make a basket o' maggots , lad , ’ said the Old Stager crisply . |
| 29 | ‘ You can still make a bit of money and enjoy yourself without ripping people off . |
| 30 | And of course all that is a play-off against you know keeping that franchisee er involved and keeping them feeling that they can still make a profit . |