Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] make [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin Parry breaks down while making a speech during his son Timothy 's funeral yesterday . |
| 2 | Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie . |
| 3 | So Father Kleinsorge got a large piece of grass and drew out the stem so as to make a straw , and gave them all water to drink that way . |
| 4 | He invented a machine which made the job quicker and easier by providing a separate needle for each loop , so as to make a whole row of stitches at one operation instead of casting all the loops on to one needle . |
| 5 | To show this , suppose that the UK has a relatively high rate of inflation and that , as a result , the pound is depreciating : speculators who expect the pound to continue depreciating will sell pounds and buy stronger currencies so as to make a capital gain later . |
| 6 | Here , it is enough to note that the adoption , largely at Owen 's prompting , by the trade union movement of the strategic objective of organising manufacturing industry in industrial co-operatives , of adopting Co-operation for its own sake so as to make a revolutionary change in the constitutional structure of society , ended almost as soon as it had begun . |
| 7 | These take a variety of forms and are thus difficult to summarize ; basically statistical properties are measured whilst some condition is fulfilled , such as the velocity being above some level , the velocity varying particularly rapidly , or different velocity components being related so as to make a large contribution to the Reynolds stress . |
| 8 | The concerns of Scott J were echoed by Harman J in Systems Reliability Holdings Plc v Smith [ 1990 ] IRLR 377 where the judge concluded ( in a case where he was concerned with an express restriction on the use and disclosure of , in particular the knowledge acquired by the defendant during his employment of the ability to modify an old computer by a small addition so as to make a new product of significant commercial value ) that the controversial part of Neill LJ 's judgment did not bind him to hold that there can not be in an express restrictive of covenant any restriction on information held by an ex-employee which is not a trade secret or something similar . |
| 9 | The weights used should be increased once 3 sets of 10 repetitions have been achieved so as to make the weight training progressive . |
| 10 | They are able to say and think things , which are often very private , so as to make the event real for themselves . |
| 11 | Their position along this axis alters the cell 's internal programme such that they now interpret the positional signals within the bud so as to make the arm and leg different . |
| 12 | Even a prescription of the wrong remedy can sometimes affect the picture of symptoms so as to make the right remedy more obvious and easily discerned . |
| 13 | At the school the examinations were spread out over three separate sessions for each girl , so as to make the whole procedure as painless as possible , academic standards among pupils being generally low . |
| 14 | It seemed that the men were welshing on the Equal Opportunities policy so as to make the paper more attractive to investors . |
| 15 | ( Another example could be my answering the telephone in a high voice so as to make the caller think he is speaking to my sister . ) |
| 16 | It requires an analytical and reasonably numerate mind to develop cost-effective plans ; it requires a rapport with the creative group to achieve the best match of material and medium ; it requires aggressive negotiating skills in order to achieve the best possible positions and discounts , so as to make the maximum use of the client 's money ; and it requires a great attention to detail . |
| 17 | Held , allowing the appeal and granting the applications , that since on an application for the grant of leave under section 8 no question with regard to a child 's upbringing was determined , and since section 10(9) stipulated particular matters , including parental wishes , to which the court was to have regard on such an application , section 1(1) did not apply so as to make the children 's welfare the paramount consideration on an application for leave to apply for a residence order made by a person other than the child concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had applied the wrong test ; that as a result of his failure to require that the mother be notified of the application the judge had been deprived of additional material necessary to the proper exercise of his discretion ; and that in the exercise of a fresh discretion , having regard to the new evidence and to the circumstances of the case , the foster mother 's application for leave would be refused ( post , pp. 428G — 429F , 430F , 431C–E ) . |
| 18 | Paragraph ( a ) is by way of restatement of the common law ; paragraph ( b ) extends it so as to make the disposition conversion even if it does not confer a good title on the disponee . |
| 19 | In Couldery v. Bartrum ( 1881 ) 19 Ch.D. 394 at 400 , Jessel M.R. , discussing the rule in Pinnel 's Case and compositions with creditors , said ’ … as every debtor had not a stock of canary birds , or tomtits , or rubbish of that kind , to add to his dividend , it was felt desirable to bind the creditors in a sensible way by saying that , if they all agreed , there should be a consideration imported from the agreement constituting an addition to the dividend , so as to make the agreement no longer nudum pactum , but an agreement made for valuable consideration , then there would be satisfaction . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend is correct — it must make sense to have pay bargaining as near as possible to the point and location of work so as to make the labour market work as efficiently as possible and to reward people as fairly as possible . |
| 21 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 22 | For any given demand for money , they seek to adjust interest rates so as to make the demand for money equal to the target money supply . |
| 23 | In particular and Since all the b n coefficients are zero through having chosen the time origin so as to make the function even in time , the half-wave rectified sinewave of figure 11.2(a) is evidently equivalent to In other words , the half-wave rectified sinewave shown in figure 11.2(a) is equivalent to the harmonic spectrum of pure cosinewaves shown in figure 11.2 ( b ) . |
| 24 | The counsellor as ‘ historian ’ is perhaps an unusual view , but by travelling through an individual 's life history , and especially when making a physical record through family albums , scrapbooks , memorabilia , and genealogies , the counsellor is in effect producing an important autobiography which serves both functions . |
| 25 | Presumably he should have shot her or let her drown , rather than make a present of her to the French , but there were some things Karelius could not bring himself to do . |
| 26 | There was no fairness on earth if someone who would appreciate it and work hard was kept out just because of a greedy , uncaring family who would prefer to forget the child of an unsuitable union rather than make a generous gesture and ensure that some right was done at the end of the day . |
| 27 | Seek professional advice if needs be , rather than make a valiant attempt yourself and then regret it . |
| 28 | Or we might compare the way Philip II kept Phokis intact in 346 rather than make a present of it to Thebes . |
| 29 | It is , though , more overtly apparent when he attempts to limit the damage to the atmosphere of the conversation caused by McKendrick 's accusation of his insincerity when praising Stoke university : Rather than make a straightforward denial , Anderson tries to diffuse the tension with humour by playing on the literal sense of McKendrick 's accusation. his display of urbane wit brings about some laughter from McKendrick but it also elicits a sardonic comment which is a valid observation on Anderson 's character . |
| 30 | Rather than make a decisive choice , he played a double game . |