Example sentences of "to make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is usual to make specific provision for service of such notices , eg at the last known home address of a partner , in a way that will afford evidence that it has been duly given ( eg by registered delivery , entry in the firm 's post book etc ) . |
| 2 | Yes , Chair , erm , the Committee is now required under Department of Health directives to make specific policy statements and identify the resources implications formula , by way of a Children 's Service Plan . |
| 3 | One idea Kevin had was to make concentrated chicken stocks for flavour . |
| 4 | Ingrid 's machine is a smaller and much-adapted version of the industrial , multi-needled monsters used in the Yorkshire weaving and woollen mills to make insulating material and upholstery fabric . |
| 5 | During the preceding century there had indeed been no pressure for subsistence , yet at the same time demand had been strong , especially in the east where the growth of a thriving cloth industry along the border , combined with the prosperity of the Devon stannaries , situated within a day 's journey by cart , had created a market lively enough to make small-scale farming a practicable alternative to labouring for wages . |
| 6 | Public ignorance , inhibition and ambiguity of feeling make sexual mountains from molehills and a titillatory Press is only too eager to make salacious copy out of any suspected deviation from " standard " morality . |
| 7 | ‘ To make iced tea ! ’ |
| 8 | Owers , out for two months with pelvic trouble , and defender Bennett both bid to make reserve team comebacks at Barnsley tomorrow . |
| 9 | Sometimes I caught the Feldwebel looking wistfully out of the window at a dilapidated horse and cart or an old man on a bicycle but he controlled himself and tried to make polite conversation . |
| 10 | ‘ He was only tryin' to make polite conversation with you about the keyboards . |
| 11 | There were n't many people sitting near us , so I tried to make polite conversation , but he was n't having any . |
| 12 | Obliged to make polite conversation all the time oh ! |
| 13 | There 's Peach Nut for revitalising dry hair , Avocado to make normal hair types shine , and Lemon & Mint to make greasy hair more manageable , each costs 99p for 250ml . |
| 14 | As soon as the first insipid light filtered through the entrance , I was glad to make tepid tea and chewy porridge garnished with mouse droppings , while enjoying a limited success in coaxing Roger from his marginally more substantial pit . |
| 15 | By this is meant the ability of a fluid to make complete contact with a surface at the point where they meet namely the interface . |
| 16 | Such developments , to make economic sense , require student numbers running into tens of thousands , and a corresponding subtlety of initial preparation . |
| 17 | He would have been able to make ample provision for the future whether or not he survived . |
| 18 | The scene is much more complex than it was say a generation or two ago and Moderator we in the Church of England should be much interested to learn in due course whether you too will feel a need to make liturgical revision for these various paths to faith . |
| 19 | There is still no guarantee that McCaw , even with LIN , can achieve the penetration rates necessary to make cellular radio commercially viable . |
| 20 | watching them fail to make dry land . |
| 21 | Examples of measures to support parents would be increases and improvements in childcare , for pre-school children and those of school age ; to make parental leave available to parents of both sexes ; to recognize childcare as a legitimate work expense for tax and benefit purposes ; and to encourage the participation of fathers in child-rearing . |
| 22 | To return to Lévi-Strauss , the point has been made that emotion need not be seen as obscure and incomprehensible , and that Freud 's importance is that he made a lasting contribution to explicating how the most obscure actions can be seen to make emotional sense . |
| 23 | The Central Committee was at first unsympathetic but on 10 October , at a meeting which Lenin attended , it was resolved to make armed insurrection the order of the day . |
| 24 | Basically everything except spirits , because they have n't yet er discovered how to make low alcohol spirits . |
| 25 | He predicted that in future the technique would be used to make subtle change to politicians ' facial features in print and on television to make them appear more attractive . |
| 26 | Their aim was to make rural life feasible and culturally viable . |
| 27 | The Taiwanese government has approved a £240 million joint venture between British Aerospace and Taiwan Aerospace to make regional passenger jets , newspapers said in Taipei yesterday . |
| 28 | However , when I later discussed the matter with him , he agreed and presumably was able to make due allowance . |
| 29 | A sensitive herself , Susan is first to feel the bids by the Sensorites to make telepathic contact . |
| 30 | Partly this is the E of EMU ( economic and monetary union ) — the fiscal discipline thought necessary to make monetary union work . |