Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] make [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the search for such pacts or agreements , the opposition parties will necessarily be drawn closer together , and the campaign for tactical voting will gather force and develop a presence that will make it better placed to make a major impact in the next election . |
| 2 | Now schools can ‘ opt out ’ from local authority control , so that the people who care most about children 's futures — especially parents and teachers — are together empowered to make the key decisions . |
| 3 | UEFA is unlikely to reduce a punishment apparently designed to make the Dutch authorities , civil as well as sporting , take hooliganism as seriously as the British have been obliged to . |
| 4 | I merely want to make the limited point that many of these students — who may be highly intelligent — do not have the existing familiarity with poetry , not to mention the general knowledge and cultural literacy , that would enable them to engage as equals in genuinely critical discussion . |
| 5 | It may also be that such employers were , at least in the early 1970s , less prepared to make the organizational adjustments which make it feasible for mothers to combine paid work with responsibility for young children . |
| 6 | Here it is important to note that , despite the burden of many of the choices we can now make , people leave themselves with just as weighty a problem by refusing to recognize the options open to them , either putting themselves too easily in other people 's hands or not allowing themselves enough space to make an informed choice . |
| 7 | These kinds of problems lead to difficulties in keeping everything indexed and in the right order , and that is obviously going to make the whole thing farcical sometimes from the children 's point of view . |
| 8 | What did you expect to gain from coming here , Fran — that I might suddenly decide to make a full confession ? ’ |
| 9 | No politician , whether a great magnate intent on retaining a traditional dominance in his region , a minister of the crown seeking favourable returns for his administration , or a landowner merely wishing to make a good figure in his own county , could manage without access to patronage with which to reward his friends ' loyalty by helping them in their times of need . |
| 10 | Thus , if pursuant to the will of X the property is vested in Y as legatee and Y subsequently sells the property for £550,000 , Y will only have made a taxable gain ( subject to the indexation allowance ) of £50,000 . |
| 11 | Unfortunately they are not usually repeatable , so having made a superb jumper for your mother , you will probably be unable to make one for yourself . |
| 12 | There are no easy answers at High Rocks , but privately negotiated fee deals can only serve to make the right solution even harder to find . |
| 13 | In July 1971 the Chairman of the CDP wrote to three polytechnic directors who were apparently intending to make a direct approach to Mrs Thatcher , as Secretary of State , ‘ in relation to the possible granting of degree awarding powers to your polytechnic ’ : individual initiatives , he considered , were premature . |
| 14 | This means that there will be no restriction on the number of places available and I am hoping that as many parents as possible will come and so help to make a real occasion of it . |
| 15 | ‘ She 's only trying to make a great deal of money , ’ said Constance . |
| 16 | It is interesting to see how a law has so rapidly effected a dramatic and important change in people 's behaviour concerning safety while travelling where even aggressive publicity campaigns apparently failed to make the necessary impact . |
| 17 | He had obviously managed to make the far end of the alley and slip out under cover of the fog , scant seconds before the other cars had arrived to seal it off . |
| 18 | ‘ After all , I only have to make the right moves at the right time . ’ |
| 19 | Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface . |
| 20 | The genuine home-made goods come in boxes with shoddy pictures of their blemished stars , who generally tend to make a one-time appearance on the store racks . |
| 21 | ‘ No , I just want to make a private call . |
| 22 | Second , if leadership in God 's economy is not given on a basis of superiority then there is no reason to assume that the husband is the best equipped to make a given decision . |
| 23 | Would you just like to make a brief statement of clarification . |
| 24 | I was just going to make a quick comment if I may on Oxfam , because I noticed that they 're down for the street collections and for the flag day , now next year 's their fiftieth anniversary , so I think it 's quite appropriate next year , but I do , my own view is , that we will get , we ought to get one comprehensive list of all these organisations , for both the street collections and the flag days , with an indication in the column of whether it 's flag day they 've gone for or a street collection , so that we can identify that sort of situation . |
| 25 | The US , which is responsible for 23 per cent of world CO 2 , against 13 per cent from the EC , has already refused to make a similar policy commitment . |
| 26 | But there was all the experience and help of Ann Scott Jones who somehow managed to make the lonely job of the Usherette/Narrator come to life , and the magic of Hildegarde Bechtler , the designer , turning the Tron into a real ‘ Forties cinema with help from the hardpressed stage manager , Gibby , and somebody 's wonderful collection of cinema architecture bric-a-brac and memorabilia . |
| 27 | Mr Mayor , I do feel after councillor er er er speech I just have to make a little comment erm people in my ward . |
| 28 | Organisers of the Tenerife Open failed to make the requisite telephone call by 10am yesterday morning to tell tour officials that they could raise the money , so it has been replaced by the Atlantic Open at Estela , near Oporto , from February 15-18 . |
| 29 | However the agency says they 'd always intended to make a radical redistribution of wealth between fathers and their first families . |
| 30 | In the movies they always seemed to make the kidnapped party drive , but Maxim thought about Dann driving his — Maxim 's — car into the first acacia while he watched the gun , which seemed to have hypnotised him . |