Example sentences of "[adj] to make out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was even impossible to make out the enormous saw which had been the cause of the accident . |
| 2 | The air was so full of flying stones , pieces of metal , swirling dust , that it was impossible to make out the markings on the car which had ended up skewed across the track , but it looked very much like a Dalgety . |
| 3 | It is also important to be able to make out a continuing and convincing case to young people . |
| 4 | Once his eyes became accustomed to the gloom he was able to make out the double curve of the banister as it snaked from the dark first-floor landing into the inky blackness of the main stairwell . |
| 5 | He looked across the field cum river bank in the general direction of civilisation , and with the aid of the moonlight was able to make out the familiar gables of the Blue Boar , a hundred yards away . |
| 6 | As the sun came up and he was able to make out the grassy track along which he had been striding through the night he realised that once again he had missed the verderers , that there were no fresh hoof-marks . |
| 7 | They were able to make out the locomotive 's smoke-box and cab , and the glare of the fire reflecting through the spectacle plate on the cab front . |
| 8 | If the atmosphere is clear you might just be able to make out the Mournes on the horizon . |
| 9 | " Patrick has disappeared , " Katherine said without preamble , glancing around , barely able to make out the seated figure of the man beside the fire . |
| 10 | In the dim light it was difficult to make out the illustration . |
| 11 | There were no windows on the first-floor landing , and in the dark it was difficult to make out the numbers on the doors . |
| 12 | The glass in the photo frame still held together but it was difficult to make out the five faces beneath . |
| 13 | It was difficult to make out the essential nature of the girl : it seemed to change with the time of day , the season . |
| 14 | Here , and probably only from the air , it is possible to make out a large area , still recovering from a heather fire which several years ago set alight the peaty turf which burned below the surface for several weeks . |
| 15 | Out to sea the beam of the lighthouse swept a great arc every fifteen seconds ; on one side of the headland were the lights of the town and harbour , on the other it was just possible to make out a line of cliffs receding into the darkness . |
| 16 | The wind and rain on the little hill above Jaffa had ripped away at the paint but it was just possible to make out the words ‘ David Damiani ’ to the left of the broken wooden gate . |
| 17 | Only when they came close was it possible to make out the dark shadow of a hand and arm carving each one , the sketchy outline of a black body behind , and above , a ghoulish half-lit face with gaping shadowy craters for mouth and eyes . |
| 18 | It was just possible to make out the 300 foot radio mast at the Davistow Airfield , an ex-military airfield well worth a visit , offering splendid moorland isolation and three concrete runways , the longest being 1550 metres . |