Example sentences of "[adv] make [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite press speculation that GM might be offered a modified deal on Land Rover ( 49 per cent of the shares ) , the government eventually made it clear to GM that Land Rover was not part of the Leyland Vehicles deal , and as a result GM withdrew its offer . |
| 2 | As well as setting up a register the Act will eventually make it illegal for people to handle food until they have taken a basic food hygiene certificate . |
| 3 | This will eventually make it possible to manipulate ecology so as to test the dependence of social structure upon it . |
| 4 | If you wished to borrow such things you instinctively made it clear that you intended no blasphemy . |
| 5 | The noise of a lock operating somewhere made them both look along the companionway . |
| 6 | Many writers are unnecessarily pessimistic about the value of archaeology in the understanding of exchange systems in the absence of literary evidence ; Wood points out that ‘ distribution maps rarely make it possible to distinguish between trade , exchange and plunder ’ ( 1983 , p. 3 ) . |
| 7 | In fact , computing people add yet another layer to this stack of definitions , though they very rarely make it explicit . |
| 8 | but er they were a bit of a nuisance because more than once , I must admit I erm , I collided with them which rather made me aware of their presence but anyway erm , then just beyond I am sorry , on the erm right hand side , a little way down this corridor , were the stairs up to the next floor which was in those days Public Health |
| 9 | LORD Ted Willis has introduced an extraordinary bill into the House of Lords which would effectively make it illegal for British shops to sell any audio or video tape recorder . |
| 10 | Only made her worse . |
| 11 | Green eyes stared back at her from beneath dark slanting brows but with her short hair that accentuated her elfin face she somehow felt the swimsuit only made her slight figure look even more boyish . |
| 12 | While this may have appeared to solve the monarchy 's immediate problems , in the long run it only made them worse . |
| 13 | You did n't run — that only made them eager for the chase . |
| 14 | A kindly uncle with no children of his own had paid for him to be educated , but education only made him discontented with his lot in life . |
| 15 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 16 | He particularly enjoyed the fact that his vaguely cosmopolitan , vaguely raffish air not only made him attractive to certain high-born English gels , but led to such useful pillow-talk . |
| 17 | Apparently her lack of repentance only made me angrier . |
| 18 | He came forward speaking softly but this only made it worse , for she came at him again , this time so viciously that , thinking she might hurt herself , he backed away across the path towards the benches . |
| 19 | Sandy lay still for a while , hoping to feel better ; but being flat on her back did n't help , and closing her eyes only made it worse . |
| 20 | Victor and I spent a month in the sun trying to drink it out of our systems , but the hangovers only made it worse . |
| 21 | I merely make you angry . ’ |
| 22 | Their desire to keep rates down made them reluctant to build council houses . |
| 23 | The fact that a water is potable does not , however , necessarily make it suitable for textile purposes . |
| 24 | ‘ They will merely make it easy for the Government to mobilize the military and send the settlers deeper into the area ’ . |
| 25 | However , I should perhaps make it clear that the position I have outlined is a very extreme form of inductivism . |
| 26 | And here I ought to perhaps make it clear that the circles I provided on the sheet which was distributed , allow for a density of twenty houses per hectare . |
| 27 | ‘ It 'll only make them arrogant . ’ |
| 28 | It 'll only make them worse . ’ |
| 29 | And like the muffled grinding of some small , expensive part of your motor which announces unhappiness in the bearings , your body can only make its inner unease known by strange and not easily intelligible signs . |
| 30 | Resistance would only make him worse ; would only heighten whatever sort of perverted pleasure he derived from hurting someone so much weaker than himself . |