Example sentences of "[subord] to make [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in turbulent and windy conditions it is always better to play safe and land into wind in another field , rather than to make a downwind landing . |
| 2 | No , top hat and tails have no real use other than to make a nervous bridegroom look even more awkward so that everyone can enjoy his discomfort and , therefore , the wedding . |
| 3 | Nottinghamshire originally sought a prohibited steps order to keep the perpetrator away from the family home , but was turned down by the High Court which said it had no option other than to make a residence order . |
| 4 | First , the long term investor ( the one , Manne suggests , we should be most keen to protect ) must actually be selling for reasons other than to make a quick profit . |
| 5 | Thirty years later , the rapid reconquest of the duchy by the French owed much to the threat posed by the French king 's artillery against the defences of towns which preferred to surrender than to make a fight of it . |
| 6 | In the case of a simple penal code , acceptance of its punishment is the best action by the deviant given that the alternative is reimposition of the punishment path : punishment outputs are so chosen that it is better not to postpone the date of reversion to collusion than to make a short-term gain from deviating from the punishment path . |
| 7 | They therefore faced no option other than to make a go of the business . |
| 8 | He did not compromise easily , but was willing to accept less than he had hoped for rather than to make no gain at all . |
| 9 | As it turned out , it seems to have been inspired by a desire to bolster government policy rather than to make an objective assessment of the state of trees . |
| 10 | What greater respect for God than to make an offering of a golden calf ? |
| 11 | For her at this stage , not crying is a great achievement but she hopes that some day she will reach a better balance so that her tears will be for herself rather than to make an impression on others . |
| 12 | When after a moment it had not moved , I resorted to the car horn , but this had no effect other than to make the creature commence pecking at something on the ground . |
| 13 | Dean Rusk declined to discuss it other than to make the observation that |
| 14 | ‘ What the rule of compulsion seems to require is that there is no practical choice but to pay in the circumstances , or to put it another way , before a payment will be regarded as involuntary there must be some natural or threatened exercise of power possessed by the party receiving it over the person or property of the taxpayer for which he has no immediate relief than to make the payment … |
| 15 | In a recent case , Bridger Properties Ltd v Dovey Holdings ( South Wales ) Ltd ( 1991 ) unreported , Chancery Division , 25 June : discussed at 7.4.4 ) the court did not consider the guidelines at all but simply observed that nothing could be more " uncommercial " than to make the date for completion of a contract for sale and purchase of land turn upon the determination of an arbitrator . |
| 16 | The exclusion of fixed charges from section 245 arguably reflects the favouritism shown to secured creditors in English company law , although to make a secured charge subject to the claims of preferential creditors would obviously affect both the terms of credit and the amount of credit available , and this may justify the present position . |
| 17 | We shall not consider this topic here except to make the following point . |
| 18 | And just as they were about to leave , as if to make a grand exit of it , O kissed Boy again , very publicly . |
| 19 | As he raised his glass , Major Morton raised his also , as if to make a toast . |
| 20 | as if to make the point , the first published report put forward proposals to abolish certain obsolete criminal offences ; the Commission 's recommendations being implemented in the Criminal Law Act 1967 . |
| 21 | She leant forward in her chair as if to make the facts clearer , cool and in control , as if reading from autoscript in the studio . |
| 22 | She was probably raped first as she had a horrible wound in the abdomen , undoubtedly caused by a grenade , as if to make an examination impossible . |
| 23 | Before they parted it seemed to Sophia that he was trying to draw Ianthe aside , as if to make an assignation with her , but she gave him so little encouragement , indeed seemed almost to avoid him , that he had to be content with looking forward to the doubtful pleasure of meeting the whole party the next evening after dinner at the Trevi fountain . |
| 24 | Because to make a microscope preparation means that the tissue has to be fixed and stained , what one sees always looks as if it is a very rigid structure , but in the living organism the dendritic pattern of neurons is as mobile as the branches of a growing tree in a gentle breeze , so changed branching patterns are perhaps not so hard to envisage . |
| 25 | There was no alternative but to make a dash to the magician before anyone could catch her . |
| 26 | In view of the media coverage of the Beijing massacre , Western governments had no alternative but to make a visible display of their own disapproval . |
| 27 | Until you have worked out your long-term plans , you have no option but to make the best of existing buildings which may or may not suit your immediate requirements . |
| 28 | North Korea 's Kim Il Sung must soon decide whether to make a nuclear bomb . |
| 29 | However , since he may not release a prisoner unless and until he is recommended to do so by the Parole Board , the stage in an individual prisoner 's sentence at which the board considers whether to make a recommendation for his release is therefore very important . |
| 30 | Under section 1(4) ( b ) of the Children Act 1989 , the court has to consider the guidelines under section 1 in deciding whether to make a care order or supervision order . |