Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [adj] mistake " in BNC.
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| 1 | He scrutinized the documents as if they were a puzzle picture in which he had to spot the deliberate mistakes . |
| 2 | The view that it is sufficient to point out that policies are ‘ wrong ’ is often linked with a view of policy making in which men and women of good will are believed to be responsible and are anxious to rectify the unwitting mistakes made in the past . |
| 3 | A volunteer worker took the dead baby and mother back to the hospital where the baby was immediately admitted and then pronounced dead in an effort to rectify the original mistake . |
| 4 | I want to underline the biggest mistake which I believe bands make when they are starting out . |
| 5 | No one will now make the mistake of thinking that industrial employment is ‘ impossible side by side with crofting ’ , but it is still possible to make the contrary mistake of thinking that agricultural improvements by themselves can make a significant contribution towards a permanent solution of the crofting problem . |
| 6 | Growth may mean cash flow for new ventures and the ability to make the occasional mistake . |
| 7 | If the SARU do not want to make the same mistake , they could organise a tour of South Africa by their proposed national team to prepare for the visits of New Zealand and Australia in August . |
| 8 | SIR — As a convicted British tribalist , Scottish branch , may I urge the new Government of Great Britain not to make the same mistake as the British tribalists , English branch , who failed for so long to find a use for County Hall in London after Livingstone et al. |
| 9 | I was n't going to make the same mistake as my parents , forever denying themselves what they wanted now so that they could look forward to their retirement with complete peace of mind . |
| 10 | The big advantage we 've got over bands from the '60s and '70s is we can look back and see the exact point at which they all turned shit — and we 're not going to make the same mistake ! ’ |
| 11 | She is not going to make the same mistake Jimmy Carter 's First Lady Rosalyn did . |
| 12 | He has made himself so by resolving never to make the same mistake twice . |
| 13 | If however the attempted rescues were purely an ill-judged attempt to preserve employment , we need only resolve not to make the same mistake again . |
| 14 | It is not hard to imagine that the Old King was obsessed by the problems that had arisen alter he had recognized young Henry as his heir and was determined not to make the same mistake again . |
| 15 | I try not to make the same mistake twice . ’ |
| 16 | She was careful not to make the same mistake . |
| 17 | I 'm determined not to make the same mistake with them . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't intend to make the same mistake twice . |
| 19 | After all , you confused me with someone else , and I really should n't care for you to make the same mistake twice . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought you were n't going to make the same mistake again . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't want Silas to make the same mistake . ’ |
| 22 | With plans afoot for two more major routes through the region , the Government 's being urged not to make the same mistake again . |
| 23 | Children are a vital part of happy married life and blessed with this new lease of family life , I do n't intend to make the same mistake again . ’ |
| 24 | Children are a vital part of happy married life and blessed with this new lease of family life , I do n't intend to make the same mistake again . ’ |
| 25 | He did n't want to make the same mistakes again and was taking great care over every detail , researching the best possible way to lure the creature into his grasp . |
| 26 | But I do n't want you to make the same mistakes the French make here . |
| 27 | We 're not likely to make the same mistakes again . |
| 28 | Yet it would be wrong , in the course of this rather general discussion , to make the common mistake of ignoring the contribution which basic instinctual drives themselves make to such adaptive , intelligent behaviour . |