Example sentences of "[adj] make the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has come to tell them about the opportunities which await them if they are prepared to make the long journey to Oregon . |
| 2 | If , as the Minister says , we recouped so much money on the Gulf war , may I ask him to explain why the Ministry of Defence is being so mean and tight-fisted towards some of those who were prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice during that war ? |
| 3 | The emerging calculations implied that muon catalysed fusion would not release as much energy as was needed to create the muons ; even if the muon were as stable as Alvarez 's ‘ ten or twenty minutes ’ the sticking makes the useful production of energy out of reach . |
| 4 | Sabine makes the initial contact in a correspondence that flowers into an exchange of life stories and , eventually , hearts . |
| 5 | With all the crowding work , and a little pleasure , too , I would have written to you yesterday , only I partly feared to , because I had a proposal to make , which it would have been unseemly to make the apparent cause of my haste . |
| 6 | Even if one thinks one 's own company will not reduce costs further , it is dangerous to make the same assumption for one 's rivals . |
| 7 | Since any point on the diagonal makes the same intercepts on both scales any job whose line hits the diagonal has been completed . |
| 8 | Since any point on the diagonal makes the same intercepts on both scales any job whose line hits the diagonal has been completed . |
| 9 | Secondly , if you listen carefully you are more likely to make the right responses to what is being said to you . |
| 10 | Firms are less likely to make the right choice between alternative investment projects because inflation adds considerably to the uncertainty of expected future yields . |
| 11 | For the most part , however , the solution will lie more on the managers ' side than the shareholders ' : the managers need to be given incentives that make them less likely to make the colossal errors of the 1960s . |
| 12 | The first meeting took place on the following Monday , 7th June , when the seven members present made the momentous choice of Hope as chairman . |
| 13 | It is obviously helpful to make the first flights in smooth weather , with a clear horizon . |
| 14 | In extreme cases the project may fail to reach completion or reach it too late to make the desired impact on the market . |
| 15 | Whoever you are fighting , whether they are armed or not , it is always important to make the best use of the space around you . |
| 16 | We could begin with a feature called short to make the fundamental distinction between , , , , , , ( +short ) , and , , , , , , , , , , , , ( -short ) . |
| 17 | As for young Pat McGibbon , he is unlikely to make the final panel on the day after his 20th birthday . |
| 18 | Do you find that you are only able to make the minimum payments on your credit cards ? |
| 19 | Royalty themselves , aware of the limits of the loyalty of their subjects , were able to make the necessary adjustments to their job . |
| 20 | I mean he might occasionally want to move it a foot , but there would be no way he 'd be able to make the nice adjustments in that way . |
| 21 | She was still in her night things , and somehow did n't seem able to make the simplest connections in her mind ; right hand hugging her left elbow , she 'd been rocking herself gently ever since she 'd been wakened by the sounds of garage doors opening and cars being started in the mews outside her window . |
| 22 | You will have received a copy of my handwritten ‘ Functional Specification ’ in which I have tried to take account of all the comments made during our session in Paris but have been somewhat hampered by the fact that I , too along with David and Geoff , have not been able to make the latest set of disks run . |
| 23 | There needs to be a degree of tolerance and a willingness to accept that not all are willing or able to make the same level of commitment , but there are limits . |
| 24 | It was he who had classed them as ‘ tourists , travelling for pleasure ’ ; and in the course of the voyage some passengers , particularly the younger ones , were able to make the remarkable transition from despised Untermensch to pleasure-seeking tourist . |
| 25 | I think therefore it would be advisable to make the necessary adjustments in the costumes and send them to me as soon as possible . |
| 26 | He was anxious to make the right choice with his first American movie , and Lemmon was his favourite actor . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | However , by applying the correct type of training it is possible to make the maximum use of the twitch fibres present . |
| 29 | And in doing so she has proved herself a mightier force than the Palace propaganda machine , which suggested that she might not attend because she was too old and frail to make the long journey to Crathie Church . |
| 30 | The bill provoked outrage from the opposition , principally because the majority of the 35 urban communities benefiting most under the legislation were governed by left-wing councils , whereas only one of the 30 scheduled to make the largest contribution to redistribution ( a group includng Paris , Lyon , Bordeaux , Cannes , Nancy and Versailles ) had a Socialist council . |