Example sentences of "[verb] to make [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any rate , Barth himself was to come to make exactly the opposite criticism of the book , which he later used to call ‘ my well-known false start ’ . |
| 2 | The new body has made it clear that , as far as possible , it intends to make public the reasoning behind all its major decisions , a decision influenced perhaps by the criticisms heaped upon the UGC for its unwillingness to make generally known the criteria upon which it based its 1981 decisions concerning cuts in university finances and student numbers . |
| 3 | Yes , certainly Caspar would be told to make ready the royal bed-chamber tonight . |
| 4 | Of course , any such clause would have to make clear the customer 's right to strike it out . |
| 5 | In a short speech , I shall not attempt to make again the points made so tellingly by others , not least my right hon. Friends the Members for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) , for Shropshire , North ( Mr. Biffen ) , for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) , the right hon. Members for Bethnal Green and Stepney ( Mr. Shore ) and for Plymouth , Devonport ( Dr. Owen ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford ( Mr. Cash ) . |
| 6 | Lord Hill called his bluff by threatening to make public the reason why the programme could not be shown . |
| 7 | We played badminton and sang folk songs , but we knew as we wept and prayed with refugees from Czechoslovakia that it would not be long before we were asked to make even the supreme sacrifice to stop , if we could , the Nazi menace . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |