Example sentences of "[verb] to make the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our comprehensive gear guide tells you all you need to know to make the right choice |
| 2 | Most children begin Primary School at five or even just before , but Matilda 's parents , who were n't very concerned one way or the other about their daughter 's education , had forgotten to make the proper arrangements in advance . |
| 3 | Patients were instructed to fill in the two diaries for 14 days , but were not told that the computer automatically records date of data entry , nor were they given instructions of what to do should they have forgotten to make the daily entry . |
| 4 | The builder 's surveyor will therefore need to make the necessary adjustments for cost value reconciliation purposes . |
| 5 | Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) . |
| 6 | cars be permitted to make the lengthy journey out to Finchley and back down the other road to Cricklewood and Willesden , where they met other L.C.C . |
| 7 | War on the ground is really a man with a large field with curved corrugated metal huts to keep pigs in to grub all the vegetation off to feed them up to get themselves eaten by other men to help those men to have the energy to work to make the curved corrugated metal huts and grow other food in other fields that gets eaten by another lot of men who leave some of it to feed back to the pigs . |
| 8 | That low , dishonest decade was when we broke free of our parents , banished the Fifties , discovered that we 'd missed the Sixties , and tried to make the best of it with an orgy of revolting clothes , tasteless music and formless anomie . |
| 9 | ‘ We tried to make the best of it but it was so bad that was impossible , ’ said Brian . |
| 10 | Against critics who had accused him of choosing to write of the sea and lonely islands in order to have greater freedom for his imagination , he protested that his own youth had worn ‘ the sober hue of hard work and exacting calls of duty , things which in themselves are not much charged with a feeling of romance ’ and that if he had any ‘ romantic feeling of reality ’ it was disciplined by ‘ a recognition of the hard facts of existence shared with the rest of mankind ’ , a recognition which , he believed , tried to make the best of the hard truth and to discover in it ‘ a certain aspect of beauty ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , it was something like a castle , and he 'ad tons of servants and a butler as well , and a sister who was secretly a witch and tried to make the poor girl worship Satan , but — ’ |
| 12 | The revenue with the greatest financial potential became politically vulnerable when the Crown tried to make the potential actual . |
| 13 | They tried to make the Social Work Department follow its guidelines , but some of the parents believed the social workers did n't know much about the document at all . |
| 14 | The girl threw caution to the wind and tried to make the most of every minute via sex , drink , numerous abortions , and late-night revels . |
| 15 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 16 | Soper was firmly in the tradition of those liberals who tried to make the Christian gospel more acceptable to ‘ modern man ’ by explaining away the supernatural and miraculous elements . |
| 17 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 18 | We have two principles of political integrity : a legislative principle , which asks lawmakers to try to make the total set of laws morally coherent , and an adjudicative principle , which instructs that the law be seen as coherent in that way , so far as possible . |
| 19 | And what do you say , do you say , ‘ I do n't agree with what that man says , it 's a bad book , I do n't like it or I wo n't read it ’ , or do you say , ‘ it 's probably useful for me to try to make the imaginative judgment to see things the way he sees them , to see the way the world looks like from his point of view , and I may reject that , but at least one ought to have some tolerance and some understanding ’ , and it seems that that 's where the study of literature meets life . |
| 20 | One has to make the best of a situation , after all . |
| 21 | Each age and each individual has to make the imaginative effort to appropriate the religious tradition and make it their own , as Julian did . |
| 22 | The subcontractor then has to make the difficult choice of continuing work in the hope of being paid , or withdrawing his labour and reducing the probability of ultimate payment . |
| 23 | We have in place a framework that will ensure that this country is uniquely advantaged to make the most of the opportunities that will become available in the 1990s . |
| 24 | Here , ants and fungi race to make the most of good , organic matter and the rotting trunks themselves play host to an assortment of bright green epiphytes . |
| 25 | ‘ Obviously , anyone who has been oppressed for 40 years will have among their number people who want to make the complete lunge towards a so-called free market utopia . |
| 26 | We want sparkle on the job , and we want to make the right tools available . |
| 27 | This time we want to make the 1st division . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But as I say I do n't necessarily want to get involved in too much of the detail of the statistics of it , I simply want to make the overall point that we 've been told that there are three thousand unemployed . |
| 30 | ‘ We want to make the whole pie bigger so there 's more for us , more for them , more for everybody . ’ |