Example sentences of "make more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , Jed was going to be sleeping at Mrs Neary 's that night ; they could n't have made more noise exploring the Hall if they 'd found it to be haunted . |
| 2 | I said I thought Surkov felt resentful because the novels had n't made more money . |
| 3 | Henry Fonda was apparently heard to say of his son , ‘ That little bastard … he and some other punks have produced a movie out of nothing and have made more money from that piece of crap than I have made in a whole lifetime in Hollywood . ’ |
| 4 | he 's made more money you can make more money |
| 5 | Mr has made more publicity on this issue than any other councillor . |
| 6 | Williams had a good ear , and since his death some of his admirers have made more sense of his procedures than he could ever make for himself , but the lamentable effect of his example has been to lead poets to trust their ear implicitly , thus discrediting the very notion of measure . |
| 7 | One possibility is that the DGSE somehow hoped that by buying the dinghy in London blame for the operation would be placed on MI6 , although in this case it would have made more sense to buy one made in Britain . |
| 8 | But I think if we 'd made ‘ Rumours ’ then ‘ Mirage ’ then ‘ Tango ’ and then ‘ Tusk ’ it probably would have made more sense from the listeners ' point of view . |
| 9 | Would the whole story not have made more sense had Jupiter been identified with the Sun , Venus with the Moon , and so on ? |
| 10 | Would n't ‘ To My Daughter ’ have made more sense ? |
| 11 | I dared not move until my eyes had made more sense of the place . |
| 12 | One of the arguments of the present paper is that the reforms would have made more sense and been more appropriate for our purposes had we successfully translated and adapted the lessons learned from the North American experience with case management , focused on the real messages of the PSSRU experiments , and waited until the RDP case management evaluation was complete ( Cooney , 1992 ) before contemplating the introduction of the reforms . |
| 13 | Surely , with your background , something in the hotel line would have made more sense ? ’ |
| 14 | Knowing Carol , of course , it would have made more sense to ask if I 'd come out of things in one piece — the piece in question being in the genitalia region . |
| 15 | Andy had n't meant any more than his pressing need to stay in for a few weeks till he had made more headway with his revision . |
| 16 | Kids would have made more mess . |
| 17 | One , for example , had been approached by four or five recognised firms without result but , significantly , had made more progress with an intermediary . |
| 18 | On the heathland of north-west Norfolk many poor men of no military value were ignored until taxed on wages in the subsidy ; above the £1-level people there resembled those who lived farther to the east , except that the outstanding men were great landowners and yeomen , in contrast to the north-eastern district , where peasants were firmly entrenched , usually taking the initiative over enclosure , which had made more progress there . |
| 19 | I have made more progress with the script . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , Mr Fairfax , as you can see , we 've already made more progress than you managed on your own . ’ |
| 21 | In this way perhaps examination assessment could be made more objective . |
| 22 | As the MIND report concludes , not only must the system be made more user friendly , but it must move away from a supply-led to a consumer-oriented approach . |
| 23 | In Britain we 've always made more fuss of a ballad than a blueprint … |
| 24 | Myra did n't remind her husband that Rosenstein 's butchery had made more business for Zvi . |
| 25 | They have also made more use of video analysis . |
| 26 | There are many traces of ritual in ordinary household life , and perhaps these could be made more use of , and new ones established . |
| 27 | And then of course you 've got your , I think people made more use of the convalescent club , which we have got . |
| 28 | Erm we 've got a convalescent club for members and I think people made more use of that and then there was a time when I remember er you see , even the death , there was a death grant . |
| 29 | I 've made more piece just that |
| 30 | ‘ Made more effort to care . |