Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 This will eventually make it possible to manipulate ecology so as to test the dependence of social structure upon it .
3 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 .
4 ‘ They will merely make it easy for the Government to mobilize the military and send the settlers deeper into the area ’ .
5 The genie comes out and goes you , I can only grant you one wish , think carefully .
6 However , I should perhaps make it clear that the position I have outlined is a very extreme form of inductivism .
7 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 .
8 ‘ It 'll only make them arrogant . ’
9 It 'll only make them worse . ’
10 Resistance would only make him worse ; would only heighten whatever sort of perverted pleasure he derived from hurting someone so much weaker than himself .
11 Then Carrie jumped aside as a passing bus threw up some slush from the gutter , and as she brushed her hands down over the bottom of her coat , she said , ‘ You 'd think they did it on purpose , ’ and as he went to assist her she stayed his hands , saying , ‘ It 'll only make it worse .
12 Do n't scratch — you know it will only make it worse ! ’
13 ‘ Do n't you know you 'll only make it worse ? ’
14 but , but I mean you can only make it worse by like you say , you 're wasting your own time and money
15 The project team can not guarantee that the product will be so exploited , it can only make it possible .
16 The project team can not guarantee that the product will be so exploited , it can only make it possible .
17 I li , I li , you can only make it this time of year .
18 Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized .
19 Oh , and you better make it five cos
20 And — er — better make it good . ’
21 Better make it fifty , he thought , seeing himself distributing them like Christmas cards .
22 All the same , he thought , better make it fifty .
23 But , just to make sure you do n't jump to any more ludicrous conclusions , I 'd better make it clear that I do n't ever intend you to get away from me .
24 Plaice , then , and two helpings — better make it three if Faustina was to be included — perhaps ‘ portions ’ was the word — and some chips .
25 We both had a sandwich , the man in the blue raincoat saying ‘ We 'd better make it snappy ’ between every bite .
26 Our clerical structures do not necessarily make it easy for pastors to be pastored .
27 He added that the movie quality pictures offered by HDTV would not necessarily make it better or more satisfying to the viewer — instead they could well expose the cheap and cheerful sets used for soap operas for instance .
28 The Court assumes that failure to explain why it was not practicable to obtain a report from such a doctor will make the admission unlawful , and the same point is made by Professor Hoggett ( Mental Health Law ( 3rd ed. ) at pp.102–103 ) , who also stresses that the administrative arrangements for medical cover does not necessarily make it impracticable to obtain a recommendation from a doctor who knows the prospective patient .
29 She hardened her heart and thought she should swiftly make it clear she had not come in search of him .
30 ‘ You 'd better buy it some flowers .
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