Example sentences of "[adv] make [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite press speculation that GM might be offered a modified deal on Land Rover ( 49 per cent of the shares ) , the government eventually made it clear to GM that Land Rover was not part of the Leyland Vehicles deal , and as a result GM withdrew its offer . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This will eventually make it possible to manipulate ecology so as to test the dependence of social structure upon it . |
| 4 | If you wished to borrow such things you instinctively made it clear that you intended no blasphemy . |
| 5 | The noise of a lock operating somewhere made them both look along the companionway . |
| 6 | Many writers are unnecessarily pessimistic about the value of archaeology in the understanding of exchange systems in the absence of literary evidence ; Wood points out that ‘ distribution maps rarely make it possible to distinguish between trade , exchange and plunder ’ ( 1983 , p. 3 ) . |
| 7 | In fact , computing people add yet another layer to this stack of definitions , though they very rarely make it explicit . |
| 8 | but er they were a bit of a nuisance because more than once , I must admit I erm , I collided with them which rather made me aware of their presence but anyway erm , then just beyond I am sorry , on the erm right hand side , a little way down this corridor , were the stairs up to the next floor which was in those days Public Health |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | While this may have appeared to solve the monarchy 's immediate problems , in the long run it only made them worse . |
| 11 | You did n't run — that only made them eager for the chase . |
| 12 | A kindly uncle with no children of his own had paid for him to be educated , but education only made him discontented with his lot in life . |
| 13 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 14 | He particularly enjoyed the fact that his vaguely cosmopolitan , vaguely raffish air not only made him attractive to certain high-born English gels , but led to such useful pillow-talk . |
| 15 | Apparently her lack of repentance only made me angrier . |
| 16 | He came forward speaking softly but this only made it worse , for she came at him again , this time so viciously that , thinking she might hurt herself , he backed away across the path towards the benches . |
| 17 | Sandy lay still for a while , hoping to feel better ; but being flat on her back did n't help , and closing her eyes only made it worse . |
| 18 | Victor and I spent a month in the sun trying to drink it out of our systems , but the hangovers only made it worse . |
| 19 | I merely make you angry . ’ |
| 20 | The fact that a water is potable does not , however , necessarily make it suitable for textile purposes . |
| 21 | ‘ They will merely make it easy for the Government to mobilize the military and send the settlers deeper into the area ’ . |
| 22 | However , I should perhaps make it clear that the position I have outlined is a very extreme form of inductivism . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ It 'll only make them arrogant . ’ |
| 25 | It 'll only make them worse . ’ |
| 26 | Resistance would only make him worse ; would only heighten whatever sort of perverted pleasure he derived from hurting someone so much weaker than himself . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Do n't scratch — you know it will only make it worse ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't you know you 'll only make it worse ? ’ |
| 30 | but , but I mean you can only make it worse by like you say , you 're wasting your own time and money |