Example sentences of "to make [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , any such clause would have to make clear the customer 's right to strike it out . |
| 2 | The Plan B mentioned last year was for the All Blacks to make only a fleeting visit to Australia , thus opening the way for the South Africans to make a short tour to Australia and then for the All Blacks to go to South Africa . |
| 3 | Altering the relative breadth , depth or pattern of courses seems likely to make only a marginal difference to their reputation inside and outside the higher education system . |
| 4 | ‘ The cost of a vessel such as the Khan has described will be beyond a trader 's reach , Noyon , given that men are permitted to make only a profit from an enterprise which may be considered just . |
| 5 | For what it is worth , every typist would have to have an error rate of about one in a trillion ; that is , he would have to be accurate enough to make only a single error in typing the Bible 250,000 times at a stretch . |
| 6 | Whatever the fine points of the strategy , it worked , because Beeny was called on to make only a few big saves throughout the game . |
| 7 | ‘ While I was at Hibs , I had frequently watched Rangers on television and noticed Chris Woods having to make only a couple of saves per game . |
| 8 | Yes , certainly Caspar would be told to make ready the royal bed-chamber tonight . |
| 9 | But I think , you know to make perhaps an obvious point , the comparison is made with West Germany , it 's not made with what er Japan or , or er America for instance are proposing to do , which is less than us at the present time . |
| 10 | At any rate , Barth himself was to come to make exactly the opposite criticism of the book , which he later used to call ‘ my well-known false start ’ . |
| 11 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 12 | And now , my dear Willi , I would ask you to make just a little overture of … friendship , to Gesner this evening . |
| 13 | The timbers are of sufficient size to make both a positive statement and to last indefinitely . |
| 14 | Mrs Taylor said she had been urging the Government for months to make public a report by Mr Ponsford confirming the morale problems . |
| 15 | Council will decide at a later date whether to make public the number of votes cast . |
| 16 | The new body has made it clear that , as far as possible , it intends to make public the reasoning behind all its major decisions , a decision influenced perhaps by the criticisms heaped upon the UGC for its unwillingness to make generally known the criteria upon which it based its 1981 decisions concerning cuts in university finances and student numbers . |
| 17 | It is not our practice to make public the precise dates of submarine construction or related programmes . |
| 18 | The LDP denounced the decision to make public the allegations , and threatened to begin libel proceedings against both Oshima and the prosecutors in the Watanabe case . |
| 19 | Lord Hill called his bluff by threatening to make public the reason why the programme could not be shown . |
| 20 | The Conservative Party took the rare step of disclosing the amounts after Prime Minister John Major faced a demand from Labour leader John Smith to change the law , forcing political parties to make public the donations they received . |
| 21 | It is also the case that the president 's unfalteringly outsider style of leadership tended to make worse an already difficult predicament . |
| 22 | Our task today is to increase the international pressure on behalf of the thousands of prisoners of conscience all over the world , to make tomorrow the day their freedom is restored . |
| 23 | But if the majority are still hesitating , some are at last being lured into the market — and more must follow to make even a modest recovery possible . |
| 24 | But to make even a minor improvement to effluent which already consists of relatively good quality water may involve the discharger in very heavy expenditure indeed ( see Kneese , 1973 ) . |
| 25 | This division was aggravated on the following day when Obuchi chose to fill all executive positions within the faction with his supporters , thereby declining to make even a gesture of reconciliation towards his opponents . |
| 26 | Dennis was on his first visit there and signing the star-studded visitors ' book is enough to make even a former world champion feel a little over-awed . |
| 27 | We played badminton and sang folk songs , but we knew as we wept and prayed with refugees from Czechoslovakia that it would not be long before we were asked to make even the supreme sacrifice to stop , if we could , the Nazi menace . |
| 28 | IT 'S the picture to make even the strongest beefcake Gladiator go weak at the knees as the stars of the hit TV series show off their biggest fans , the Gladiatots . |
| 29 | And how was anyone to make even the bottom step of that wretched ladder thing when the launch was rising and falling like a demented yo-yo ? |
| 30 | The atmosphere was hostile enough to make even the sturdiest outfit crumble , with almost 38,000 — the biggest crowd in England this season outside Wembley — turning Anfield into a seething cauldron . |