Example sentences of "[verb] to make [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most children begin Primary School at five or even just before , but Matilda 's parents , who were n't very concerned one way or the other about their daughter 's education , had forgotten to make the proper arrangements in advance . |
| 2 | The builder 's surveyor will therefore need to make the necessary adjustments for cost value reconciliation purposes . |
| 3 | Indeed , you are permitted to make a faithful copy of a famous painting if you wish , as a means to master a particular technique or learn something of a process or style . |
| 4 | Something simpler is obviously called for , and Floorplan Plus is an attempt to provide the layman with the tools he needs to make a convincing stab at planning out a house , extension or furniture arrangement . |
| 5 | LENNY Henry wants to make a British version of New Jack City . |
| 6 | The delay is due to the complex documentation required , X/Open claims , saying that it wants to make a big splash for XPG4 , now scheduled for the Autumn . |
| 7 | So it may be said that the legislation was promoted by a pressure group whose perception of Co-operation was decried by the Consumers ' Movement ; and passed under a Tory rather that a Liberal Government because a trade union tried to make a tactical use of just that form of co-operative preferred by the promoters and decried by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 8 | At the same time he tried to make an economic case for expenditure in that area : ‘ Moreover , from the trade point of view , this area was probably worth between one and one and a half million employed men to this country . |
| 9 | But it is perhaps better not to try to make a bizarre idea for a murder the seed in your mind for a book , though when you have devised your plot you should of course make the actual circumstances of the murder as attention-grabbing as possible . |
| 10 | We have two principles of political integrity : a legislative principle , which asks lawmakers to try to make the total set of laws morally coherent , and an adjudicative principle , which instructs that the law be seen as coherent in that way , so far as possible . |
| 11 | Though not used by homoeopathic pharmacies in this country for potencies below the 1M , it is used commercially in Belgium for all potencies , and is also used when a practitioner has to make a specific potency for a particular patient , such as a potency of chloroform for a case of chloroform allergy . |
| 12 | And the chairman also has to make a big speech on the first day . |
| 13 | Where handwritten texts are at issue , it is often the case that the individual reproducing the text in a printed version has to make a considerable effort of interpretation to assign a value to some of the less legible words . |
| 14 | DES WALKER knows he has to make a quick impression for his new club , Sampdoria . |
| 15 | Thus , the Chancellor of the Exchequer has to make a special effort in every budget to ensure that tax rates ( or thresholds ) are adjusted in line with inflation — unless , of course , he particularly wishes to increase the tax burden of these groups as part of his economic strategy . |
| 16 | The subcontractor then has to make the difficult choice of continuing work in the hope of being paid , or withdrawing his labour and reducing the probability of ultimate payment . |
| 17 | He unwrapped the handkerchiefs , contrived to get a good amount of mud down his boots and pretended to make a bad landing from the monkey rope and was dispatched to the sanatorium with a suspected sprain . |
| 18 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |
| 19 | An acquaintance who is well-informed as to the intentions of the Liberals writes to me that they propose to make a big plan of public works the centre of their election programme . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've got a visitor coming at six o'clock and I want to make a good impression on him — it 's twenty to four already . ’ |
| 21 | But if you want to make a good impression on examiners , prospective employers or clients , the mastery of our unreasonable orthography is a necessity . |
| 22 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
| 23 | And we especially want to hear from youngsters who want to make a short piece of film themselves . |
| 24 | A record-review button — a great time and battery saver when you want to make a quick check-replay of a shot on location . |
| 25 | We expect plenty of interest from those who want to make an unforgettable gift to their partners . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Obviously , anyone who has been oppressed for 40 years will have among their number people who want to make the complete lunge towards a so-called free market utopia . |
| 27 | In quantitative terms the product is expected to make a net profit of ( 12,000 x £20 ) — £200,000 = £40,000 , but only if the forecast of sales is correct . |
| 28 | The central focus of the project will be the impact of employee relations on port efficiency , but the research is expected to make a major contribution to the wider understanding of port operations and to inform current and future policy debates on the industry . |
| 29 | Another ultrasonic downhole inspection tool developed by AEA for the oil industry has undergone trials and is expected to make a major impact on traditional mechanical inspection techniques . |
| 30 | Ingres Windows 4GL , well received as a graphical , object-oriented 4GL development tool , but with a surprisingly low profile for a two year old product , is expected to make a two-stage move towards supporting multiple databases , with announcements about a middleware product expected next month . |