Example sentences of "to make the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faith in human progress , joined with the strong emphasis on good works in many of the popular religious movements of the period , did much to make the nineteenth century a humanitarian age … |
| 2 | They helped to make the 7th and 8th Centuries a time when Jarrow was the largest centre of civilisation west of Rome . |
| 3 | It is obviously helpful to make the first flights in smooth weather , with a clear horizon . |
| 4 | The visiting players have been in England for some days , and all four are becoming understandable twitchy as the time to make the first moves approaches . |
| 5 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 6 | This year politics and economics conspired to make the first almost impossible . |
| 7 | We were both trembling with desire , afraid to make the first move . |
| 8 | Then , both of them a little awkward , a little shy , not liking to make the first move , the Shotterys had walked together down the path , away from the little group at the church porch . |
| 9 | In the 74th minute Furlong forced Cherry to make the first serious save of the match , and soon afterwards the goalkeeper had to turn a shot from Flynn round a post . |
| 10 | She was damned if she was going to make the first move . |
| 11 | If he was at all interested it was up to him to make the first move . |
| 12 | But this did n't stick , and because his style was as I have said to always sit and wait , and never to make the first move , we began to call him The Older Man ; and then this became just Older , and finally just O. |
| 13 | Because of the need to keep premiums in line with claims we have reluctantly had to make the first increase in our basic BUILDINGS rate for many years . |
| 14 | He had previously pedalled his way to make the first cycle crossings of the High Atlas mountains in Morocco , and of Lapland from the Arctic Ocean to the Baltic Sea . |
| 15 | He opens with a history of homebuilts dating from Sir George Cayley ( who would have approved the sage advice to get an experienced hand to make the first test flight of your creation , though in his case the unfortunate man was more adept at handling a coach-and-four than a flying machine ) and proceeds through the Flying Flea era to the post-war rebirth in France and the USA , thence to Rutan and the foam/fibreglass revolution , and on to the 1980s emergence of IFR-capable alabaster-smooth hot-rod kitplanes that will blow the socks off anything Vero Beach and Wichita are ( or more accurately are n't ) building . |
| 16 | It is up to them to make the first move . ’ |
| 17 | She was determined not to make the first move . |
| 18 | Mark Pretty removed the offending hold , but it was left to Robin Barker to make the first free ascent of the Free Monster E6+ 6c ( F7c+ ) . |
| 19 | In doing this , we need to make the first block of colours an odd number of rows in length , 1 , 3 , 5 , 7 , 9 and so on . |
| 20 | BORIS Yeltsin is to make the first official visit to Britain by a Russian president in November . |
| 21 | He is ‘ determined to make the first grade ’ . |
| 22 | He had decided to do nothing further for the present and leave it to Berowne to make the first move . |
| 23 | Despite being outnumbered , unaware of the enemy 's dispositions and ignorant of the terrain , Hamilton was ordered to make the first British landings on 25 April at the southern tip of the peninsula near Cape Helles , while Anzac troops went ashore about 24km/15mls farther up the Aegean coast near Gaba Tepe . |
| 24 | Following the trend spearheaded by Unify Corp with its Accell 4GL toolset a few years ago , Ingres Corp is expected to make the first moves in liberating its own toolsets from the Ingres database next month . |
| 25 | The most stupefying performance , however , came from Cecilia Gasdia , a voice of evidently limited power ( the second part , made up of arias , showed her physical limitations , notably in ‘ D'amor al dolce impero ’ from Tancredi ) , but her dash , her sinewy vocalization , her miraculous phrasing , the skill with which she marshalled the resources of her voice , all conspired to make the first half ( La Separazione , Mi lagnerò tacendo , Bolero above all ) a miraculous experience . |
| 26 | A knot is required in order to make the first fastening . |
| 27 | I am about to make the first incision . |
| 28 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 29 | She became the elfin presence , the luck charm , the sweet pet of the forest : and when she was sixteen , she met William , four years her senior , a carpenter just out of his apprenticeship in Lorton — the next village on from Buttermere — who came every week to make the first selection of wood from her father 's stock . |
| 30 | Oates went with Scott to make the first British depot . |