Example sentences of "[adv] make [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He only made the two trips to the house . ’ |
| 2 | The pelagic zone also includes a few creatures that are land-based , but none the less make a significant contribution to the marine ecology : birds such as the puffins , gannets , boobies , auks , terns and penguins ; the pinniped carnivores — seals , sea-lions , fur seals , and walruses ; other carnivores — the sea-otter and the polar bear ; reptiles such as some marine crocodiles and the marine , herbivorous iguana of the Galapagos Islands . |
| 3 | Old phone books apparently make an ideal alternative to straw , and they 're far cheaper . |
| 4 | It would perhaps make a poignant epitaph to Eliot 's creative career that he should return to the literary associations and memories of his youth in America — the " Victorian American " who even in his rebellion against that inheritance marked himself as its true heir . |
| 5 | Non-executive directors can only make a limited contribution to a company given that they have little knowledge of its day-to-day working . ’ |
| 6 | It is also interesting to note that endorphins are released when acupuncture is practised and perhaps make a significant contribution to the therapeutic effects which may be achieved . |
| 7 | As far as BCCI is concerned , it is understood that a very high proportion of the loans made by BCCI have some sort of deposit associated , and this will obviously make a substantial difference to the amount which can be claimed on behalf of BCCI . |
| 8 | As the University 's commercial arm , UnivEd not only makes a major contribution to the University 's finances , but also enhances Edinburgh 's position as an international centre of excellence in teaching and research . |
| 9 | If everyone in the developed world made energy efficiency a priority in all parts of their lives , the carbon dioxide we add to the atmosphere could drop quickly enough to make a real difference to global warming . |
| 10 | The contract should have been drafted to take account of United Kingdom law , it was simply not good enough to make a few modifications to an American form of contract . |
| 11 | The team have since made a second visit to Korup to complete some unfinished tasks , and the whole Korup relationship was a success . |
| 12 | Here 's the Lyndhurst West ‘ Easy-8 ’ , a short list of products that will easily make the transatlantic crossing to our market — look out for them this Spring . |
| 13 | It could thus make an additional contribution to the development debate as such , in which at present the cultural dimension is seen from perspectives emanating from western paradigms . |
| 14 | His energy and enthusiasm have already made a significant contribution to the style and driving forward of the many issues with which the Association is involved . |
| 15 | NOW entering its third year , Teesside Training and Enterprise Council has already made a significant contribution to the social and economic life of the region . |
| 16 | MRI has already made a valuable contribution to the management of patients with musculoskeletal tumours and has become the investigation of choice for staging patients with primary bone tumours . |
| 17 | ‘ The Bank has already made a full response to the Bingham Report , including a number of changes flowing from the lessons learned from BCCI and Bingham 's recommendations . ’ |
| 18 | The GCSE system as a whole has already made an enormous difference to teaching methods in schools . |
| 19 | The simplest way of recording answers was therefore felt to be to assume that all those answering ‘ yes ’ to question 1 were also in principle against the proposal in question 2 , thus making the overall response to this question negative . |
| 20 | ‘ Nuclear energy is one of the cleanest methods of generating electricity , ’ it states , ‘ and already makes a substantial contribution to reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the UK . |
| 21 | The Commons , by its elected status , associates the people with the government , and thus makes a major contribution to legitimacy , a concept essential for government by consent . |
| 22 | It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people . |
| 23 | The solution is strongly opposed by the R & D staff , who usually make the largest contribution to the project in terms of effort . |
| 24 | Though conservation of our most endangered species of butterflies ( such as large blue , heath fritillary and swallowtail ) is largely in the hands of experts , keen amateurs can still make a valuable contribution to conserving commoner species . |
| 25 | Snooker was his hobby , and he usually made a weekly visit to a snooker club nearby , with his next-door neighbour , Bill Austin . |
| 26 | The humanitarian side of the Enlightenment , the emphasis it laid on making the ordinary man happier through religious toleration , economic progress and education , always made a genuine appeal to him . |
| 27 | They are the votes which , usually making the greatest contribution to a successful candidate 's quota , are the most influential . |
| 28 | But the theory is a mechanistic one ; the individual creature is genetically pre-programmed to act in the way it does ; statistically speaking it has no choice ; within a narrow range of variation , it always makes a predictable response to identifiable patterns of stimuli originating in the external environment . |
| 29 | At an early stage in coming together in associations , then , the first choice is almost always to make a combined plea to those in power for greater access to resources . |
| 30 | It adds that , although he lives in Macclesfield , he still makes a weekly trip to his flat in North London ‘ to keep in touch with the seamier side of life which often inspires his work ’ — a habit which has qualified him uniquely to illustrate Mr Boot 's Unauthorised Returns . |