Example sentences of "[adj] make the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the lust for escape was a powerful one and the fact that escape was possible made the idea a great stimulus whether you got away or not . |
| 2 | The thought of him being ten years old made the children want to giggle but they bit the giggles back . |
| 3 | I am but as you would say a cobbler. make it interesting make the character . |
| 4 | An alternative suggests that as the English made the return crossing , the bridge became overloaded , and as the barges sank many were drowned . |
| 5 | It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court . |
| 6 | However , if you have a car tyre that has a slow puncture , and you have to take it to the garage every week to put air into it , it does n't mean that there is anything wrong with the pump : there must be something else wrong to make the tyre lose air . |
| 7 | The UK argues that it would be wrong to make the rules for the review ( which comes after four years ) before it happens . |
| 8 | So you can immediately see that it would be quite wrong to make the mistake that people sometimes do make and think that the second model of the mind is really just the first one given new terms and that the ego is equivalent to the conscious . |
| 9 | The president still has to make a host of key decisions : how generous to make the benefits ; how to pay for the changes ; how much freedom to give the states and , above all , how to sell the package . |
| 10 | They felt that through joining the movement they had been liberated from the ills of modern society and that they were at last free to make the world a better place and themselves better people . |
| 11 | In particular , if a foreign element is involved the court will need to be satisfied that , in respect of the relief sought against him , the defendant is sufficiently connected with England for it to be just and proper to make the order against him despite the foreign element ( post , pp. 702H — 703A , 705B ) . |
| 12 | In particular , if a foreign element is involved the court will need to be satisfied that , in respect of the relief sought against him , the defendant is sufficiently connected with England for it to be just and proper to make the order against him despite the foreign element . |
| 13 | While most people strongly condemn the drugs traffickers , critics point to the recent drive by international markets to drive down the price of coffee , Colombia 's main export — and to the continuing drain of resources into debt payments to Western banks — as evidence that the international community is not willing to make the kind of sacrifices needed to confront the social and economic roots of Latin America 's drug problem . |
| 14 | DEC quit looking for an Alpha RISC second source when it became apparent foundries were n't willing to make the kind of investment needed without knowing whether the thing was really going to take off , says Electronic News . |
| 15 | The acquirer may not have the time or be willing to make the inspections and will not want to accept the risk that some information may have been given to one of its employees or advisers who was unable at the time to appreciate its significance in relation to the transaction , or indeed may have been forgotten . |
| 16 | I enjoy walking on the common land myself , but if I 'm willing to make the sacrifice , why are n't you ? ’ |
| 17 | However , the number of people willing to make the commitment to Communist party membership remained disproportionately small . |
| 18 | The long drive north may act as a deterrent to some , yet for those willing to make the effort the rewards can be breathtaking . |
| 19 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |
| 20 | However , at that time they were not prepared to make the road available . |
| 21 | MGM were prepared to make the film as a star vehicle for him and originally offered him the role of Captain Bligh . |
| 22 | ‘ Had we replied in the affirmative , he would clearly have been prepared to make the attempt … ’ |
| 23 | This time the Attorney General replied that the figures for the period before 1982 were ‘ not fully available or reasonably accessible ’ , which can mean only that no one in his office was prepared to make the count . |
| 24 | The breadth of the catch-all provision was , I imagine , the reason why it was thought appropriate to make the power exercisable ‘ where … it may be deemed just to rectify the register . ’ |
| 25 | If a break does occur the wire tends to coil up , and it is easy to make the mistake of just tying the broken ends together and towing it straight back to the launch point for the next launch . |
| 26 | It is easy to make the mistake of sounding pompous in business letters . |
| 27 | It is all too easy to make the mistake of treating it as a purely physical problem that can be overcome by renewal , as was discovered by costly experience in the USA during the 1960s and in Britain a decade later . |
| 28 | ‘ It is easy to make the judgement that there is a good deal of fatalism held by unskilled workers … [ they ] believe they ‘ do n't have the knowledge ’ to think about the organization of their work . |
| 29 | You 've still got to get good experienced people in their fifties and er whilst a lot of people have experience or a lot of experience er from their their previous working life it 's not always easy to make the jump into |
| 30 | That is a form of typewriter , whereby it 's possible to generate a letter and , unlike an ordinary typewriter , if you make a mistake it is very easy to make the corrections because the word processor gives you the opportunity to have a look at the letter on a television screen before it is finally typed on paper . |