Example sentences of "[be] [adj] make [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | April does n't have to be a month of trials and tribulations or agonising over career or professional matters , if you are prepared to make some snap decisions and take what transpires towards the very end of March as a signal to go even further out on a limb . |
| 2 | But they 're happy to make this extra offering . |
| 3 | Consequently , it would be unrealistic , not to mention arrogant , to suppose that I am likely to make any new contribution to them . |
| 4 | On the other hand , if you exercise less than twice per week , you are unlikely to make any noticeable fitness gains . |
| 5 | But the chairman of the Defence Select Committee has warned it would be unrealistic to make any further reductions . |
| 6 | In Scale 1 chapter nine Hilton says that the fullness of contemplative experience can be given to those in active life , though he adds the rider that they will not be able to make such full use of it as those living more sheltered lives as solitaries or in a contemplative order . |
| 7 | Well before dawn came it was clear that the wound was poisoned and he would not be able to make another hard day 's journey . |
| 8 | Well before dawn came it was clear that the wound was poisoned and he would not be able to make another hard day 's journey . |
| 9 | But this poses a problem : if ‘ crimes ’ are diverse , changeable and selective , how can we expect to be able to make any general statements about the conditions that influence their prevalence ? |
| 10 | Until they sex out and start producing fry of their own we will still be able to make any positive decisions about just how easy or otherwise this species is . |
| 11 | It would be difficult to make any long-term difference to the development of the Spinward Corporation , because this moment exists and must fit into Spinward 's development . |
| 12 | It would certainly be necessary to make some further enquiries among the tourists , particularly about their activities during the key period between the time Kemp had arrived back in Oxford , and the pre-dinner drinks when everyone except Eddie Stratton , it appeared , was accounted for . |
| 13 | If you are artistic , it may be fun to make any little figures in the shape and clothing of children at the party — for instance in the school bus cake , on the spinning roundabout or sliding down the helter-skelter . |
| 14 | The hunger strike sparked off divisions between those Länder ruled by the SPD and those ruled by the CDU or CSU , since the former were prepared to make some limited concessions by allowing very small groups of RAF prisoners to have contact with each other . |
| 15 | Not having a swimming pool , the boys merely had occasional periods at the Town Baths , and were unlikely to make any great splash in the swimming championships . |
| 16 | The sad fact is that many of these ‘ irruptive ’ birds spend their last days in the islands , because if they do not move on immediately while they still have the strength , the more time they spend searching for what is n't there , the less chance there is of their being able to make another long sea crossing . |
| 17 | Four trips to the region between March and May by US Secretary of State James Baker confirmed only that the region 's two main contenders , Israel and Syria , were reluctant to make any meaningful concessions . |
| 18 | However , it is possible to make some general comments about the ways in which descriptions of a child 's language difficulties can contribute to planning intervention . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , setting the final coordinate with a flourish , ‘ it 's dangerous to make such absolute pronouncements . |
| 20 | It is impossible to make any such comparison without knowing what the institutional arrangements of the system would be . |
| 21 | Increasing contestability is likely to make some natural monopolies not sustainable ( e.g. the single-product rising cost cases ) , but in other cases the effect will be to discipline pricing behaviour more severely . |
| 22 | Rather than simply sampling at random , it is helpful to make some preliminary enquiries among the child 's parents or teachers regarding the kinds of situations in which she is most likely to talk . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , it is useful to make these analytical distinctions , particularly where the apparent and real empirical contradictions threaten to swamp the theory . |
| 24 | NORTHERN Ireland manager Billy Bingham is unlikely to make any widespread changes in his team which meets Latvia in Wednesday 's World Cup Group Three qualifying tie at Windsor Park ( 8pm ) . |
| 25 | To this day just to see or hear the word ‘ hermaphrodite ’ is sufficient to make those luminous pictures shimmer before my eyes . |
| 26 | Britain was willing to make some further concessions on the political front , with some kind of executive body administering the free trade area . |
| 27 | My time at the DHSS showed that it was impossible to make any significant change without a fierce public and professional battle — even when improvement meant more resources for health care or put right long-standing problems . |
| 28 | Masoud Barzani of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan ( DPK ) , who led the Kurdish delegation during the talks in Baghdad , was believed to have pressed for an acceptance of the proposed settlement , despite uncertainty over the status of Kirkuk , claiming that the government was unwilling to make any further concessions . |
| 29 | They possessed a certain plausibility in as much as Richard could not have gone on crusade without first ensuring that his position as his father 's heir was fully and publicly recognized in the most formal manner possible , while everything about Henry 's policy in the last four years indicated that he was reluctant to make any such announcement . |
| 30 | It was finally agreed that local commanders appeared to be using their discretion in a satisfactory manner as to the means used to persuade Jugoslavs that they should return to Jugoslavia , and that it was unwise to make any further interpretation . " |