Example sentences of "[modal v] make of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever we may make of this , it is interesting to observe that Professor Hartman of New York has established a link between those who suffer from this nocturnal disposition and a high level of creativity . |
| 2 | Whatever we may make of its influences , Leonard is clear that he ‘ never recovered ’ from its dénouements ; its ‘ illumination of human behaviour ’ ; its horror ( which he termed ‘ metaphorical ’ ) . |
| 3 | Whatever we may make of Leonard 's Judaism , he is a man seized by its traditions , its scriptures and their imagery . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Readers may make of this what they will . |
| 6 | That they should make of one body a site where the variousness of all other bodies is in some way received . |
| 7 | They must make of it what they will . |
| 8 | And God knows what sort of a mishmash they 'll make of it . |
| 9 | ‘ I wonder what they 'll make of our humble little home . ’ |
| 10 | Do n't know what , do n't know what they 'll make of all that gobbledegook. bye bye love . |
| 11 | I wonder what Johnson might make of this press release from the British architects RMJM ? |
| 12 | It is of course very difficult to predict all the uses you might make of a new technology until you have had time to experiment with it , so the same golden rule applies to recording as to playback : start small with a basic system to which you can add . |
| 13 | The only criticism one might make of the Labour party 's proposal is that it is not large enough . |
| 14 | ‘ They realized what complete idiots they 'd make of themselves , ’ said Nigel complacently . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know what they 'd make of ours , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 16 | It 's tempting to wonder what he 'd make of wordsmiths all around re-writing his work ; mellowed out or gobsmacked ? |
| 17 | Golly it 'd be interesting to know what they 'd make of this tape for the next couple of hours . |
| 18 | all that godliness , honour and love could make of a knight was combined in Don Rodrigo … |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll hang myself , ’ I used to mutter over and over again , or for a change I would stare at my shotgun and wonder at the sort of mess I could make of myself . |
| 21 | Exactly that passage from The Wanderer , for instance , is paraphrased by Aragorn in chapter 6 of The Two Towers : a candid mind might have looked to see what Tolkien could make of it . |
| 22 | The , the , the best defence you could make of that , if you wanted to make a defence of it , would be that in the nineteen twenties and thirties as we 've been seeing in the lectures , I 'll be saying a bit more about that some psychoanalyse was , was developing . |
| 23 | She would find Mrs McMahon when she came back , and Feargal could make of that what he would . |
| 24 | I repeat what I have always said : 175 is the best estimate that the senior chief inspector and I could make of the number required after the transitional period to carry out the duties that I have described . |
| 25 | My figures were the best estimates that the senior chief inspector and I could make of the numbers required to carry out the policy that I have laid before the House . |
| 26 | Therefore , most of the King 's resources must have been bound up in those ships and the various uses he could make of them . |
| 27 | Contact with famous name international firms undoubtedly encourages local manufacturers , impressed by the demonstration effect of the success of prestigious foreign firms , to consider seriously the uses they could make of the new technologies . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | One wonders what young library users would make of such an unnaturally placid , unearthly character . |
| 30 | ‘ I wonder what St Wilfrid would make of it all ’ , wrote the 1984 committee chairman in the feast programme . |