Example sentences of "[adv] make the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I started screaming so loudly that crowds ran to the scene which eventually made the policemen stop . ’ |
| 2 | In 1983–4 , Wirral not only made the headlines in the tabloid newspapers , but fast became the place for the in-depth story . |
| 3 | Wycliffe looked about him and approved , especially of the walls which , in some past time , had been stencilled with designs that were mildly but cheerfully crazy so that to look at them for long made the eyes go funny . |
| 4 | But why should he alone make the headlines ? |
| 5 | The Shell Account Card will only make the purchases you authorise — eg. fuel only ; fuel and oil ; fuel , oil , servicing and shop sales ; named drivers only ; specific vehicle registration numbers only . |
| 6 | And TV cameras homing in on incidents referees have missed can only make the officials feel a little incompetent . |
| 7 | Scott 's personal involvement in all stages of the design is clear from his Recollections , and his staff merely made the drawings . |
| 8 | The overall length of the Siberian lines was 2,100 versts , and mounted cossack patrols constantly made the rounds to ensure that all was peaceful . |
| 9 | Rain water , which is a very weak acid , passes down through the joints , slowly dissolving the rocks and so making the joints wider . |
| 10 | It does , however , almost certainly increase the amount of time spent by the agency in working on a given account , without necessarily making the results any better , except perhaps in the very general sense of keeping the client organization happy . |
| 11 | The big creatures stand quite high from the background , but this depth of cutting is only to make the contours clear ; the surface is a flat plane , details lightly modelled or engraved on it . |
| 12 | What is the point of bathing together in the beaches when in fact we can not sit together to make the laws of our country ? |
| 13 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 14 | That alone makes the patterns in social relations more complicated , but in addition we must analyse processes of change to judge how far the character of these structures is being modified or even transformed . |
| 15 | The faded youth only exists within the realm of the poem , his or her traces have otherwise vanished , necessarily so to make the verses ' truth actually true . |
| 16 | Spectacular cures for iron deficiency are possible with iron sulphate , but the safest way to use it is as a very weak solution — no more that can be heaped on a 1p coin in a full gallon of water — mist-sprayed on just enough to make the leaves glisten , not drench and drip . |
| 17 | Because of a combination of so many unknowns , we , or should I say they — Pete and Dick did all the work , I just made the bikes — made a total cock-up of ability and distance . |
| 18 | It had n't worked , of course , just made the others frightened . |
| 19 | And that 's where the men worked and they just made the barrels in there . |
| 20 | Okay if you 're left handed then then I guess you 're probably gon na feel more comfortable that way round erm but while you 're using this and while you 're making a point about what you 've written just just stand to the side of it I usually put me hand up have done there just make the points to be made , yes . |
| 21 | You can easily make the curls by twisting gold gift tie and sticking it into the cake . |
| 22 | Miss Miggs soon made the Brownies feel better . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) The wife shall not so long as the husband shall punctually make the payments hereby agreed to be made commence or prosecute against the husband any matrimonial proceedings other than proceedings for dissolution of marriage but upon failure of the husband to make the said weekly payments as and when the same become due the wife shall be at full liberty on her election to pursue all and every remedy in this regard either by enforcement of the provisions hereof or as if this agreement had not been made.n So far as we know , the parties have remained apart ever since . |
| 24 | When our children grow up , we no longer make the decisions for them , but accept the decisions they make for themselves and their own families , and we must do it as constructively and cheerfully as we can . |
| 25 | I 've already made the reservations . |
| 26 | Eh , concentrate , oh yeah leggings , erm so Jenny tried them on , and they looked really nice on her , cos her legs , you see , cos I 've got this bit here , little bit there , erm , and being cropped , just made the legs look a bit sort of stumpy . |
| 27 | from Gladstone and Gannon , and er he gave an awful lot of people at the S U and at Alcuin J C R a lot of grief over the provost , who then wrote them a letter saying I , Jim am the fault of all this and just generally made the students look even dafter for |
| 28 | It can also cause a reduced milk yield , thus making the pups cry , creating yet more stress . |
| 29 | This is not confined to just making the applications do what they are supposed to but the whole concept of the Macintosh is that anyone can look after it . |
| 30 | He or she just makes the evaluations and makes the decisions and that 's that . |