Example sentences of "[adj] to make [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already the local people were disposed to make over various small sums for the use of the Schoolmaster . |
| 2 | Now the delegates ' meeting in 1985 will be free to make up its own mind . |
| 3 | Feel free to make up answers , perhaps using a family situation you are familiar with . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's easy ; my affections have been rejected by the one I love and her carnality is being most thoroughly investigated by my elder and smarter brother on a more or less hourly basis , so I am spurned and she is spermed ; my father believes his children should be free to make up their own minds , but preferably only out of the spare-parts that he provides … |
| 5 | If the costs at the home you prefer are greater than the fees payable by the Social Work Department , your placement will be dependent on a third party being willing to make up the difference , ie a relative , a charity or a trust . |
| 6 | With the paths so well marked it 's easy to make up walks to suit your mood and fitness . |
| 7 | It is very easy to make up new words in order to personalise the song . |
| 8 | Cushion covers are a delight , rapidly worked and easy to make up . |
| 9 | You could use Likert or Semantic-Differential scales but whatever you choose must be appropriate and easy to make up . |
| 10 | It is easy to make up someone to look like someone , is n't it ? |
| 11 | Well it 's pretty difficult actually to put a cupboard up a wall , I admit they 're very easy to make up but to actually hold this cupboard . |
| 12 | If you 'd wanted to separate off your paras , you 'd put in a full size slug because it was easy to make up and the whole thing was absolutely modular erm but perhaps it would have looked better if it had been A four , or you know , Swiss in some way . |
| 13 | She was fairly easy to make out against the glitter on the lake . |
| 14 | It was n't easy to make out his expression , but she was watching him as carefully as she could . |
| 15 | Among the fibres of the material it was easy to make out tiny , translucent granules of unburnt , smokeless powder . |
| 16 | And another : ‘ it was not easy to make out Little Dorrit 's face , she was so retiring , a delicately bent head , a tiny form , a quick little pair of busy hands , what affection in her words , what compassion in her repressed tears , what a great soul of fidelity within her , how true the light that shed false brightness round her ’ . |
| 17 | However , O'Brien , winner of the Derby six times , is unlike to make up his mind until next week . |
| 18 | It was even impossible to make out the enormous saw which had been the cause of the accident . |
| 19 | It was before the tapes were published — but it was impossible to make out what the argument was about . ’ |
| 20 | The air was so full of flying stones , pieces of metal , swirling dust , that it was impossible to make out the markings on the car which had ended up skewed across the track , but it looked very much like a Dalgety . |
| 21 | In Brooks the Court of Appeal decided that there was no need for the accused to make off stealthily , and that the words " dishonestly makes off " usually required no explanation because they bore their " ordinary natural meaning " . |
| 22 | Still , it was heartening to see that Baryshnikov , now that he is running a company of his own , was applying the wisdom taken for granted in ballet , but still to be learned in too many American contemporary companies : that it is dangerous to make up a mixed programme using the work of only one choreographer . |
| 23 | Always something engulfing me , always something surreal to make out , always my blood at risk . |
| 24 | He wished Annabel were not so insecure and dependent upon him ; for the past few months , as she waited for Avanti to make up its mind , she had needed constant emotional support and reassurance from Scott , who had felt her clinging to him , almost like a physical weight on his back . |
| 25 | Any material which runs for half a minute or so is worth considering , and you can stretch these times to any length by repeat-recording them nose-to-tail for as many times as needed to make up the required length . |
| 26 | Certainly , it will need to work hard to make up for lost time ; the party has neglected the cause of democratic socialism in the North for far too long and it has allowed would-be Labour activists to become demoralised . |
| 27 | Normally , New Scientist heralds the beginning of April with a few jeux d'esprit , but this year it was subdued , predicting only that the world would come to an end on 5 April , a prophecy based on meat consumption figures , though it was hard to make up the mind about an item called ‘ What the woodlouse can teach us about marriage ’ . |
| 28 | But I 've worked really hard to make up for it . |
| 29 | His sliced clearance and subsequent foul when trying too hard to make up gave Sundeland their goal on Wednesday . |
| 30 | WE live at a time when reporters go to foreign countries where there is trouble and come back to write books in which they say that it was hard to make out what was going on . |