Example sentences of "to make the [adj] move " in BNC.

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1 Clearly while we do have gliders that spin , it is vital to give pilots enough experience to recognise what is happening and to make the right moves instead of panicking and doing nothing .
2 ‘ After all , I only have to make the right moves at the right time . ’
3 Following the trend spearheaded by Unify Corp with its Accell 4GL toolset a few years ago , Ingres Corp is expected to make the first moves in liberating its own toolsets from the Ingres database next month .
4 We were both trembling with desire , afraid to make the first move .
5 Then , both of them a little awkward , a little shy , not liking to make the first move , the Shotterys had walked together down the path , away from the little group at the church porch .
6 She was damned if she was going to make the first move .
7 If he was at all interested it was up to him to make the first move .
8 But this did n't stick , and because his style was as I have said to always sit and wait , and never to make the first move , we began to call him The Older Man ; and then this became just Older , and finally just O.
9 It is up to them to make the first move . ’
10 She was determined not to make the first move .
11 He had decided to do nothing further for the present and leave it to Berowne to make the first move .
12 Those weeks , not seeing him , wondering , too proud to make the first move .
13 The Trees seemed to be waiting for Tealtaoich to make the first move and the largest of the Oaks had inclined their heads quite courteously .
14 She wanted desperately to reach out to him , but she knew that she had to wait for him to make the first move .
15 The chief innovation is allowing the third umpire to make the first move in decision-making , which the TCCB admits could lead to : ‘ Suspension of a decision already made ’ .
16 It 's thought most of its 330 employees will agree to make the nine-mile move .
17 And waited for her to make the next move .
18 Was each of them waiting for the other to make the next move ?
19 Then it would be up to him to make the next move .
20 But nor was it every day that in broad daylight — given that the light was n't all that good — that she stood in what was now quite heavy rain getting soaked while her amorous swain waited for her to make the next move .
21 erm not only that , but erm whereas in the past it 's tended to be at the prerogative of the education people , as it were , the teachers and the heads and the educational psychologists , to make the initial moves in categorization or making a statement , now the parents have a right to ask for an assessment , so perhaps in your case to your question it would have been yes , you could have in fact have erm initiated the moves .
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