Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] make [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not bring myself to suggest that she was not likely to live much longer , certainly not long enough to make either course imprudent . |
| 2 | He had already clearly laid down his view in his opening speech to the session , in which he recognised that perestroika had so far made little impact on the acute social and economic crisis . |
| 3 | While the diesel option has become popular among owners of off-roaders like the Discovery and the Mitsubishi Shogun , it has so far made little progress in the executive car class . |
| 4 | I wanted to continue my studies as a postgraduate at U.C.L. I was now interested in modern linguistic research , but knew very little about it , since linguistics had so far made little impact in the U.K. , and there was no teacher in the Department who could adequately supervise me in that area . |
| 5 | I agree with all the right hon. and hon. Members who said — I think that almost all who have spoken so far made this point — that it is very important to give Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland the prospect of joining the Community at least by the end of the decade , and to give them every possible assistance in meeting the economic and political conditions for membership as soon as possible . |
| 6 | So please make those contacts , so that you can erm , make arrangements to discuss , obviously things of mutual concern , promptly please , to your seminars , when we will continue some of the discussions we 've been having this morning , and thank you all very much indeed . |
| 7 | Now 37 , Jeff Koons long ago made enough money from his art never to need to work again . |
| 8 | It always struck me as ironic that these buildings , which had been designed to make that present appear futuristic , now served so well to make this present look exactly like the recent past . |
| 9 | It 's commonly held that instruments are generally better made these days — even the cheap ones — and one of the prime benefits of this is that the purchaser has a better than even chance of buying a worthwhile instrument , regardless of cost . |
| 10 | They 've had high points before , will they ever really make that elusive breakthrough to power ? |
| 11 | Just prior to the 1985 Helsinki conference , the DoE was once again making some progress and , at the final meeting , it was the Foreign Office which enjoyed the casting vote . |
| 12 | In fact , it is possible that in 17th-century French theatrical music when the scoring is reduced from the typical five parts to four , one should consider the possibility that this signals a change in the orchestration from a string to a wind texture , especially if the dramatic situation a pastoral scene , most probably makes such a change plausible . |
| 13 | I have to say that they were also apparently making this suggestion for rats and mice . |
| 14 | In fact women are clearly already making this kind of calculation for themselves and many do decide they would rather run the gauntlet of contraceptive side effects than risk a pregnancy and cope with the consequences . |
| 15 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 16 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 17 | The polarity between the ideals the kore-type was evolved to express and the new ideals evident here perhaps makes this moving work not quite an artistic success . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're sure you know him well enough to make that claim with authority ? ’ |
| 19 | Please please make this happen . |
| 20 | Maxim slammed the steering wheel with both hands , nearly hard enough to break it , certainly hard enough to make both palms sting . |
| 21 | She had no idea how long she stayed there , simply gazing into the beautiful sea-blue eyes which had become more important than life itself to her , but everything she saw there somehow made all of her doubts , all of her fears just slide away , leaving her lighter of heart than she could ever remember being . |
| 22 | Indeed deliberately making all the tricky names into anagrams may be an easier way to work through the map for non-Gaelic speakers . |
| 23 | He quite possibly made that catastrophe recede by denying the aggressive Chinese access to Russian secrets . |
| 24 | Grants of immunities to whole industries against antitrust laws no longer make any sense . |
| 25 | Since we are concerned with average or aggregate data in macroeconomics , we need no longer make any distinction between measured consumption and permanent consumption . |
| 26 | But if surfers could no longer make those connections through space , they made them through time . |
| 27 | By the end of the Victorian era female cottage industries no longer made much of a contribution to the family income of the labouring classes . |
| 28 | In an official statement put out yesterday , Sangster said cryptically : ‘ It is a sad decision , but it no longer makes any sense keeping the place and having to stay in the local pub when we visit . ’ |
| 29 | The view was expressed that with technological progress unskilled jobs were disappearing and the idea that full employment is possible no longer makes any sense . |
| 30 | Yet for all his diabolical skill , he can no more make this revue than one swallow can make a summer . ’ |