Example sentences of "[adv] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They appeared in parts over five years from March 1755 to June 1760 and eventually made two folio volumes . |
| 2 | Bibikov was no liberal , but neither were some of those who eventually made major contributions to the emancipation of 1861 . |
| 3 | Edward 's manipulation of the wool trade for his financial advantage intensified the divisions between the small group of wealthy merchants who stood to benefit from Edward 's schemes and the lesser merchants who eventually made common cause with the producers in opposing the monopolistic structure that Edward tried to create . |
| 4 | ‘ I would rather make pragmatic progress than theoretical progress . ’ |
| 5 | Of course , consumers as individuals can rarely make such choices operative , even if they wished to . |
| 6 | The Report expresses the hope that the implementation of the Fourth Company Law Directive on accounts [ see page 39 ] will eventually make this task easier . |
| 7 | Elsewhere , there 's a locally made 60 year old winnowing machine for separating the wheat from the chaff and even some ancient milk churns . |
| 8 | By analogy with the genetic information raining down on the canal from my willow tree , we could say that the dust carries ‘ instructions ’ for how to dam streams and eventually make more dust . |
| 9 | He rarely made fundamental mistakes and never , she suspected , about a man 's scientific ability . |
| 10 | We call in on Odd-Knut 's Lappish acquaintance — — not ‘ friend ’ , because the Lapps rarely make real friends with non-Lapps . |
| 11 | Almost any sizable stretch of water , inland or coastal , may attract an Osprey , but spring birds rarely make prolonged stays . |
| 12 | QUIET cities rarely make good copy ; but on May 28th , when Miami failed to explode , it was news of a sort . |
| 13 | The decision was taken at a meeting of EC environment ministers on Dec. 21 , which also imposed new limits on exhaust emissions which will effectively make catalytic converters compulsory on all new vehicles by 1993 . |
| 14 | Stone only made 500,000 dollars for that and her previous film Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger . |
| 15 | Postage , stationery , fourteen O six raffle tickets , eleven pound , making a total of two thirty twenty six as against on the other side the income , three ninety six so we made a hundred and sixty six pound on on the open show which is a great increase on last year because last year we only made twelve pounds something twelve pound and a penny we made last year , so this is a great increase . |
| 16 | , The largest flying boat in the world only made one flight ( of about a mile in length at a height of about eighty feet ) , and until recently has been preserved within an aluminium-dome museum , close to the Queen Mary in Long Beach , California . |
| 17 | ‘ We applied relentless pressure but Tony Norman only made two saves . ’ |
| 18 | I first fell in love at the cinema — with Bella Darvi , a Czech film star who only made two films , Hell and High Water with Richard Widmark and The Egyptian with Edmond Purdom . |
| 19 | He reckoned that Biblical Christianity not only made more sense than any other religion or philosophy , but also it was the only one that had the power to produce real holiness of life in genuine believers . |
| 20 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 21 | Er er I do n't think after going through everything we 've said , I think we 've all got the sort of ideas that we could all make good criminals , |
| 22 | If I take penny there then , that will all make forty pence , okay ? |
| 23 | Some domestic horses scratch their owner 's backs while being brushed ; others who have been punished for putting their mouths on humans , merely make strange mouth and jaw movements . |
| 24 | But , Miss Firbank said , the Charles tape , apparently made two weeks before the Diana call of December , 1989 , points to a far more serious relationship . |
| 25 | Why do cats suddenly make mad dashes around the house ? |
| 26 | Family and old friends are not necessarily forgotten but distance will naturally make frequent contact less likely and the newly formed unit will take precedence , particularly when the young adults become parents themselves and the whole process begins all over again . |
| 27 | On the other hand action-scenes perhaps made more use than quiet ones of the partial concealment of figures by folds of ground . |
| 28 | Sleep would perhaps make more sense after thirty-six hours straight on duty , much of it spent with a sullen Jamaican who had killed his landlady and her three children in the crowded kitchen of a house behind the Westway . |
| 29 | Stevedoring is provided by Larne Harbour Limited and it is the company 's proud boast that customers need only make one phone call to complete their requirements . |
| 30 | We can measure productivity but with motivation we can only make certain assumptions that improved motivation may lead to improved performance . |