Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can more or less make soup from anything , though a good home-made stock adds a certain flavour . |
| 2 | On the other hand , to describe a person as a " friend " , or a " colleague " , or a " cousin " , etc. is implicitly to presuppose the existence of non-relational features of some kind or other , physical and/or non-physical characteristics , actions , attitudes , etc. , without which such descriptions would not be applicable , or even make sense . |
| 3 | ‘ To disable at least one , Sir — or even make use of it ? ’ |
| 4 | If they are worried about the possibility of aggression in the visit they must tell their supervisor of their expected time of return or alternatively make arrangements for telephoning the office by a specific time . |
| 5 | ‘ Is that … please we 'll be married , or please make love to me ? ’ |
| 6 | In the present case the Crown Prosecution Service were informed of the order made by Buckley J. including paragraph 33 and were asked whether they wished to intervene in the hearing before the Court of Appeal or otherwise make representations in the appeal . |
| 7 | This is not to imply that we need always be certain nor never make mistakes ; but in cases of doubt we should nonetheless be ready with some description : I see something black and circular in the road , I hear creaks and rustlings downstairs . |
| 8 | It is therefore vital that this transformation does not introduce a PAR and so make use of the recursive procedure we are currently defining . ) |
| 9 | We can therefore see such a plasmid as a temporary alliance between genes which induce conjugation in the host bacterium ( and so make transmission of the plasmid itself possible ) , and genes which help the host to survive and multi ply . |
| 10 | They suggest that the behaviour of the young is often defined as threatening by adults in positions of power and that , encouraged by media campaigns , the state can often overreact to ‘ deviant ’ behaviour and basically make matters worse ( Frith 1984 ; Muncie 1984 ) . |
| 11 | None more so than for four of the oldest surviving players to win Cup medals in the thirties — the Belfast Celtic quartet Sid McIlroy , Norman Kernaghan , Jimmy McAlinden and Harry Walker who gave this appropriate advice to young players — enjoy your football and not make money their God . |
| 12 | Your attire must tell other walkers and climbers how serious you are , indicate the status you enjoy in the world of mountaineering , and not make locals in the mountain 's nearest bar fall dangerously silent when you pop in for a pint on the way back home . |
| 13 | ‘ It would only have cost us 16p but banks should provide a service for the public and not make life difficult for them . |
| 14 | Its branches fork from an implanted bud just above ground level and normally make 2–4ft ( 0.6–1.2m ) high , although — and this has to be said — too often encouraged by incorrect and only partial pruning that permits new growth to break not from near ground level but from 1ft ( 0.3m ) , 2ft ( 0.6m ) , or even higher , they are frequently to be seen consisting of younger bloom bearing growth on top of old barky stems , the whole reaching 5ft ( 1.5m ) , even 6ft ( 1.8m ) , or more in height . |
| 15 | The overall aim of the Enterprise Centre is to enable students and staff to develop the essential enterprise/transferable skills to operate and succeed in a changing employment and business environment and thus make Napier University more responsive to the needs of work . |
| 16 | And , if we can understand and thus make use of Adorno only by historicizing him , we can go beyond him by historicizing his historicism , which reacted to the shocks of Fascism , the demoralization of the Left and the rapid consolidation of administrative capitalism by assuming that past popular cultural traditions had been not merely damaged but shattered , and which asserted a single progressive cultural trajectory , developing from radical bourgeois art ( Beethoven 's , for example ) through to modernism . |
| 17 | They will give us exactly the colour we want , especially if we dovetail them with the bassoons and thus make use of the deep low notes of the second horn . |
| 18 | When US assistance for the French in Vietnam was announced on the same day as the ‘ Schuman Plan ’ that was to merge coal and steel production in France and Germany ‘ and thus make war between the two countries not only unthinkable but materially impossible ’ , it was the prospect of strengthening France , and Germany , in the defence of Western Europe that filled Acheson 's political landscape . |
| 19 | So you 'd rather go ahead and just make numbers involved . |
| 20 | These reports assess the situation for a particular service or type of trained staff and usually make recommendations for improving quality and supply . |
| 21 | These conventions enable the participants to orientate to what is happening , and rapidly make sense of the interaction . |
| 22 | Any such attempts would most likely fail and possibly make matters worse because of the difficulties of predicting short-run changes and because of the variability of the time-lags with which changes in the money supply affect nominal national income . |
| 23 | Happily both are popular with tourists and still make money . |
| 24 | ‘ He came out with bits of information that were never of any use to anyone : But Ken could turn any conversation into an erudite discussion — and also make jokes about them . ’ |
| 25 | Like local authorities , many housing associations can now improve houses and flats for sale , and also make homes available for sale on a ‘ shared ownership ’ basis . |
| 26 | In the context of reproduction , males make use of weapons ( teeth , horns , etc. ) in competitive encounters with male rivals and also make use of their courtship display characteristics in the presence of females in order the attract them . |
| 27 | Moreover , if bad management is perceived by the stock market , share prices will be lower than they might have been and a takeover raider may see an opportunity to buy up the company , install a better management , improve profits , and hence make capital gains when share prices subsequently rise . |
| 28 | Even in the case of language tests , it is possible that situational factors will influence a child 's performance and hence make comparisons between two sets of scores difficult to interpret . |
| 29 | We have a lot to learn here , both about the most effective and workable formats for such a document , about the way in which we can most usefully and perceptively make comments and in ways which ( again ) fit practically into time demands . |
| 30 | It is true that when historians come to the basic task of source evaluation and exploitation , they will not be able to examine the alterations and check the handwriting but strategies of text analysis are already available which will allow researchers to evaluate authorship and even make judgements on changing style within an individual author 's corpus of text ( Holmes 1991 ) . |