Example sentences of "[subord] make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mid-April German soldiers were complaining in letters home of the high casualties suffered by their ration parties ; ‘ many would rather endure hunger than make these dangerous expeditions for food ’ General von Zwehl whose corps was to stay at Verdun , without relief , during the whole ten months the battle lasted , speaks of a special ‘ kind of psychosis ’ that infected his men there . |
| 2 | She had tried to make a pipe once by hollowing out the pith , spongy like the white stuff inside a peeled rush , carving holes with an awl , but the pipe had never done more than make thin sounds magnifying her breathing . |
| 3 | And slick pictures of pretty young people who seem to have nothing better to do than make amateur porn videos — often appearing in up to a dozen different tapes . |
| 4 | It had been anticipated that several of the governors appointed by Congress ( I ) would be replaced by the new government , but rather than make selective changes of those appointees of the former regime the government decided to ask all governors to resign with the intention of reinstating some of them later . |
| 5 | This rationalization for state intervention on efficiency grounds presupposes that government can determine the socially desirable rate of investment and innovation , and that it can take a dispassionate , long-term view of these investment possibilities , rather than make short-run responses to the demands of political interests . [ … ] |
| 6 | To understand and enjoy Versailles , several days are necessary : rather than make several trips from a Paris base itself , it is better to stay in the town . |
| 7 | Up to and including the 1988 social security changes , the basic policy response to the growing numbers of lone-parent families has been to add to or modify the existing system of benefits rather than make any fundamental changes . |
| 8 | I say metamorphosing because it is our firm intention to continue the natural development process which has been going on in recent years , rather than make any radical changes just because we are now a university . |
| 9 | ‘ We do nothing , except make sure that it is drawn to friend Cawthorne 's attention . ’ |
| 10 | Her mother , although made aware of her plight , at first said she intended to continue her holiday . |
| 11 | I have more than made that point in my submission . |
| 12 | Although making clear it preferred Mr Major to Mr Kinnock , it concluded by giving its backing — just — to a vote for the Labour Party . |
| 13 | Left to itself a vine would carpet the land in every direction , albeit making haphazard progress . |
| 14 | The tribunal itself need do nothing to further the appeal , other than making available the notes of evidence and the chairman 's record of the hearing . |
| 15 | The decision in 1925 turned , however , on a matter which was even more fundamental than making political decisions ‘ knave-proof ’ . |
| 16 | The worry takes two main forms : that American managers spend too much time thinking about short-term earnings rather than making long-term investments ; and that American firms face a higher cost of capital than Japanese or German rivals and so reject investment projects that others eagerly accept . |
| 17 | True , rather than making wholesale changes , gradual changes should be made . |
| 18 | Against this , as we saw , the existentialists argued that rather than making futile attempts to " eliminate " the problem one should subject it to a different type of treatment that would help place it in a proper philosophical perspective , and this was correct as far as it went . |
| 19 | New ways of delivering legal advice and assistance are being explored by the Legal Aid Board including schemes which will franchise certain work to specific firms or agencies rather than making such advice available from any solicitor ( Smith , 1989 ) . |
| 20 | The legislation , which is the first of its kind in the common-law world , was seen as clarifying and putting the law beyond doubt , rather than making new law . |
| 21 | Collecting and cleaning some types of plastic for recycling uses more energy than making new plastic . |
| 22 | This is much quicker than making serial thin sections for three-dimensional visualization of fabrics like void spaces or for reconstructing fossils in full relief . |
| 23 | Given that weak electromagnetic fields at the power frequencies 50Hz and 60Hz do pollute the environment in the sense that they make it hostile for the chemistry of body functions , there is no real choice other than making sure we live well removed from power lines or accept the higher incidence of cancer and leukaemia as tolerable . |
| 24 | Rubber reins are quite simple to recover and be careful prodding with the needle you can stitch the rubber into the reins through the original holes , rather than making fresh ones which would weaken the reins . |
| 25 | drive slowly — it 's safer and it consumes less fuel ; avoid sudden stops and use the gears to slow down rather than making sudden brake stops |
| 26 | Or perhaps it is that life is simply not fair , and that skill and cunning are what we should be using to navigate its choppy waters , rather than making open displays of bravado against the odds . |
| 27 | Philips — like Siemens and GEC — attempted to evolve rather than to make radical changes of direction . |
| 28 | The hard-bitten men round the table knew better than to make that mistake . |
| 29 | Merisel Inc has found that it 's easier to rush a catalogue out than to make sure that everything in it is correct , and in a series of schoolboy howlers in the current edition , the name of Conner Peripherals Inc is misspelled , many of its hard disks are described as floppies — and their access times of between 19ms to 1ms are rendered as 19Microsoft to 12Microsoft . |
| 30 | After revolution had begun in Europe , Nicholas was less determined to send his troops abroad than to make clear that he would brook no dissent at home . |