Example sentences of "make [adv] the [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | India has made perhaps the most dramatic move of all the shifting land masses . |
| 2 | On pricing , the conclusions which could be generally agreed were so flabby and meaningless that they might have made even the most brazen practitioner of newspeak blush . |
| 3 | In spite of most people perceiving themselves as planners , the survey reveals that in some of the most important and fundamental areas of life they have not made even the most minimal plans . |
| 4 | But as I quickly discovered , if any real progress is to be made even the most reactionary views need to be listened to and respected . |
| 5 | Built in 1864 — 71 , Thoresby was one of the famous Nottinghamshire ‘ Dukeries ’ that 100 years ago made up the most illustrious group of houses in Britain . |
| 6 | RIXI MARKUS , who has died aged 81 , was the first woman in the world to become a bridge grandmaster , and with the late Fritzi Gordon made up the most formidable women 's bridge partnership in the world . |
| 7 | The woodlands of perhaps the greatest historic interest are those which make up the very extensive Bardney Forest . |
| 8 | The package tour is particularly appropriate to the personality traits of compliance and sociability which make up the typically British temperament . |
| 9 | Hindu society is predominantly a patrifocal society , and it is usually the men who make up the socially dominant group . |
| 10 | An inverted , pirouetting helicopter can make even the most hardened flyer turn into a quivering jelly ! |
| 11 | To describe Sugar as merely ‘ tight ’ would be an insult : at times they make even the pathologically disciplined Therapy ? look like a doped-out Happy Mondays . |
| 12 | He collected a group of protective converts , and he had this knack of making even the most reasonable request look like persecution . |
| 13 | This makes perhaps the most inportant breeding area in Britain for this threatened bird — and bitterns can be seen from the hides here more regularly than anywhere else . |
| 14 | They discover , however , that the logic of narrative is far less rigorous and relies far more on individual taste : ‘ … it seems harder to tell a story , even our own , than to make up the most complex program . |
| 15 | The unflattering and lively style of Roman portraits makes even the most conventional subject seem lifelike to the modern viewer . |