Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | The investor has been most likely to make his contact with a licensed dealer by selling shares from the government privatisations at an apparently favourable price . |
| 2 | Because the polls , and therefore the program , are likely to shortchange the minor parties , and because the minor parties are most likely to make gains at the Conservatives ' expense , the program is liable to project somewhat too high a level of Tory parliamentary support . |
| 3 | The manual alerts the teacher to the kinds of ‘ errors ’ children are most likely to make and emphasises that in the ‘ correct ’ drawing ‘ the front of the road occupies the whole width of the picture , and the distant end of it vanishes away to a point far back on the horizon ’ . |
| 4 | Furthermore , artists who are also critics are especially likely to make vivid comments on the methods and techniques of old art . |
| 5 | That is , unless the amounts involved are sufficiently large to make them worthwhile . |
| 6 | It 's important to keep to this organisation — it will help you give change more quickly , and you are less likely to make mistakes ( eg giving a customer 10p instead of 50p ) . |
| 7 | If you always follow the same procedure when giving a customer change , you are less likely to make mistakes . |
| 8 | One of the reasons for following a routine like this is so that you are less likely to make a mistake . |
| 9 | Firms are less likely to make the right choice between alternative investment projects because inflation adds considerably to the uncertainty of expected future yields . |
| 10 | He is not necessarily cleverer than other workers , but his commitments are less likely to make him jeopardise his job . |
| 11 | Their numbers are comparatively small , most receive cautions and they are less likely to make it to court . |
| 12 | One important study , the Oxford Study suggests , however , that people from the higher socio-economic groups are less likely to make a claim for damages consequent upon personal injury being suffered . |
| 13 | Cruickshank believes that over the three years the results have been that ‘ so much of what we do is now being delineated by what the users want — the Patients ’ Charter is just one example of that — and health boards are taking much more time to get views , getting people like general practitioners contributing in strategy-setting and so on , so they are less likely to make mistakes . |
| 14 | I am so happy to make your acquaintance . |
| 15 | There have been few studies of office automation applications , but projections about specific skill requirements are extremely difficult to make at present because it is as yet quite unclear how office automation will be used . |
| 16 | Staff are so busy making the dinosaurs they they have n't even had time to work out how many they 've sold |
| 17 | Do you find that you are only able to make the minimum payments on your credit cards ? |
| 18 | Do n't get " tough " with a buyer and refuse to answer reasonable enquiries ; you are only likely to make the buyer get " tough " with you , and your unreasonable reticence will delay the matter unnecessarily . |
| 19 | And , according to BMW dealers , there are plenty of existing owners who are already keen to make the move . |
| 20 | They are not competent to make business judgments but they have a special skill in detecting and thwarting management self-dealing . |
| 21 | Generalizations about the trend in peasant living standards , however , are not easy to make . |
| 22 | And the central reasons for rejecting the ‘ humanist ’ paradigm of the self — as I have outlined it above — are , firstly , that there may be aspects of the development of self which are not easily accessible to consciousness , and secondly , that there are conscious experiences which are not easy to make intelligible within the humanist paradigm . |
| 23 | It also assumes that the taxpayer 's forbearance from taking action in the overseas country was productive of profit to the taxpayer in that country — an assumption which their Lordships are not prepared to make . |
| 24 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary have talked with housing authorities throughout the country in the past few weeks and we have been interested to find out that many local authorities have land banks which they are not prepared to make available to housing associations . |
| 25 | Others may limit your way so that no matter how promising your situation or how creative you can be with money , you are not free to make the most of it . |
| 26 | This means the G7 are not willing to make their economies environmentally sustainable . ’ |
| 27 | But this kind of retrofitting can cost up to half the value of a building , and owners are not likely to make the investment . |
| 28 | In just the same way , a school full of people who have no real idea about life 's inventor and designer are not likely to make a very wonderful job of sorting out what life IS all about — and they are certainly NOT going to be helped by two unexplained Bible verses in a weekly assembly ! |
| 29 | Boys of 15 are not accustomed to make the lives of odd boys happy . |
| 30 | We also know that the Government are not reluctant to make it clear to those working on their behalf exactly what sort of political message they want to receive . |