Example sentences of "[adj] to make some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am free to make some phone calls , am I ? |
| 2 | ‘ I need to feel that you are willing to make some effort . ’ |
| 3 | Britain was willing to make some further concessions on the political front , with some kind of executive body administering the free trade area . |
| 4 | The chairmen were , of course , willing to make some cuts where the national interest required it , but Gaitskell pushed them too far , making what seemed to them impossible demands . |
| 5 | president Kennedy , interviewed by Jean Daniel of L'Exprès , hinted that the United States might be willing to make some concessions . |
| 6 | ‘ How long have you known my brother ? ’ she asked politely , feeling driven to make some effort at conversation . |
| 7 | Marie Claire had some novels about English girls lost in the desert at the mercy of proud sheikhs , but those girls were as proud as the sheikhs themselves and defiant too — at least until near the end of the story — and the sheikhs were prepared to make some concessions themselves by that time . |
| 8 | April does n't have to be a month of trials and tribulations or agonising over career or professional matters , if you are prepared to make some snap decisions and take what transpires towards the very end of March as a signal to go even further out on a limb . |
| 9 | The hunger strike sparked off divisions between those Länder ruled by the SPD and those ruled by the CDU or CSU , since the former were prepared to make some limited concessions by allowing very small groups of RAF prisoners to have contact with each other . |
| 10 | If the training and enterprise councils think it appropriate to make some of those funds available for unemployed people , they are perfectly free to do so . |
| 11 | He explained : ‘ It is all too easy to make some apparently innocent , well-intentioned remark which is immediately seized upon by the press who love to hear guest speakers make a complete fool of themselves . |
| 12 | Getting ready helped to restore her calm and , in any case , she felt she owed it to Marguerite to make some effort on this first evening at her house . |
| 13 | The time can be shortened , however , if those members who were supposed to make some enquiry or obtain some information , or to write a short factual statement , have not only done so but have informed the Hon. |
| 14 | Increasing contestability is likely to make some natural monopolies not sustainable ( e.g. the single-product rising cost cases ) , but in other cases the effect will be to discipline pricing behaviour more severely . |
| 15 | Er I think , I think that er our organic growth tends to be erm er er continuous and er as you know each year we 're spending erm substantial amounts er on that er we prefer organic growth to acquisitions because we avoid er premiums in the long run er frequently er organic growth is , is actually more profitable er but we are quite likely to make some acquisitions er if erm the right er strategic opportunities er are created . |
| 16 | Rather than simply sampling at random , it is helpful to make some preliminary enquiries among the child 's parents or teachers regarding the kinds of situations in which she is most likely to talk . |
| 17 | So it is important to make some preparations in advance and accept that having fun can involve hard work . |
| 18 | This encouraged the transfer at a time when the son was still willing and able to make some changes to the farm . |
| 19 | And while no-one can predict with certainty who will actually stray and who wo n't , these scientists are now able to make some fairly educated guesses . |
| 20 | So if you have young children you might be able to make some garments and take them to the Play Group — if the leader will let you ! |
| 21 | Clearly , each such area ought to be able to make some contribution to analysing George and Marie 's problems . |
| 22 | In other words designers at DEC may have been able to make some process concessions to achieve a record clock rate that might not be appropriate for other architectures . |
| 23 | What you 're trying to do is indicate to them how best you might be able to work your way through those controversies to be able to make some statement of policy or some recommendation and the like … . |
| 24 | They were directed back to their positions by the first assistant and his megaphone , and a second take began ; Miranda was now able to make some sketches of the action as well , as she knew its shape . |
| 25 | Jensen 's PEG system ‘ is able to make some kind of syntactic sense out of any decent English sentence ’ . |
| 26 | It would be necessary to show how one accent was able to make some difference in meaning with stress or intonation that another accent was unable to make . |
| 27 | be able to make some |
| 28 | They may be unable to make some of the viral proteins that should trigger the immune system into action , leading to a weakened immune response against the infection . |
| 29 | One of the few occasions when she had been really cross with me had been when I suggested he might have been wiser to make some sort of provision for his wife and son . |
| 30 | It is now essential to make some additional points regarding banks , their financial structure and deposit creation . |