Example sentences of "[adv] to make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the function of art history today is not only to make such identifications , but also to relate an individual work humanistically to other works of the same school , period and culture , while remaining sensitive to its salient aesthetic qualities . |
| 2 | If the filling-in soil is dry , watering is needed only to make this contact , and no more . |
| 3 | Whereupon Hargreaves threw his arms around Venetia and kissed her violently , pausing for breath only to make some comment about Public Ownership , as Giles sprawled upon the floor . |
| 4 | Furthermore , any number of metal components can be joined together to make complex shapes , leading to an almost limitless variety of products . |
| 5 | These were groups of people with a common bond who had joined together to make regular contributions into a pool from which they could borrow at low rates of interest . |
| 6 | 2 Put this summary of chapter 8 in the right order , and then join the parts together to make four sentences . |
| 7 | 2 Put this summary of chapters 15 and 16 in the right order , and then join the parts together to make five sentences . |
| 8 | The program then brings the images together to make one colour image . |
| 9 | Also , metal from various sources may be melted together to make new castings . |
| 10 | In another part of the factory , the sheets were glued together to make large rolls , or cut into smaller pieces for letters and shorter documents . |
| 11 | The Germans have long made a national sport of running long words together to make longer ones ; as have the Irish , eg in place names like Newtonabbey , Maguiresbridge and Patrickswell . |
| 12 | The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words . |
| 13 | Erm , I 've put a label A B C , in one cell , D E F in another cell , and in this cell B five , I 've got the formula , plus the three ampersand B four , and th the result of it is this longer label , if you join the two labels together to make this label A B C D E F. Anybody using ampersand at all ? |
| 14 | Although we do n't have one for review , the idea is obviously to make full use of the stereo Alesis delay on gigs small enough not to need further amplification . |
| 15 | Better to make new recordings , he suggested . |
| 16 | You divide that by a hundred and twenty , divide they cancel out so it 's so to make one tonne of N A C L you use fifty eight over a hundred and twenty then you just times that by erm hundred and twenty times by two . |
| 17 | Consequently , it was also dependent upon the willingness of Germany and Italy to strengthen both sufficiently to make Spanish participation worthwhile for the Axis . |
| 18 | Years later , when posted to Buenos Aires as a senior executive of British American Tobacco , he was unhappily to make international news when kidnapped in South America . |
| 19 | During the preceding century there had indeed been no pressure for subsistence , yet at the same time demand had been strong , especially in the east where the growth of a thriving cloth industry along the border , combined with the prosperity of the Devon stannaries , situated within a day 's journey by cart , had created a market lively enough to make small-scale farming a practicable alternative to labouring for wages . |
| 20 | But at mid-height , on Newby Moss , there is a purple patch of excitement in a tight concentration of potholes , some of great depth , others ornamented around their surface openings by shrubs and heather , and pretty enough to make one wish they could be transported to the back garden at home . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're sure you know him well enough to make that claim with authority ? ’ |
| 22 | But none of these was strong enough to make much difference to the general picture of eighteenth-century Europe as overwhelmingly monarchical . |
| 23 | That core of meaning is necessarily general and vague enough to make such variations possible , but it is not so vague as to permit any meaning whatsoever to be placed on the word . |
| 24 | But the Chronicle itself is not comprehensive enough to make such doubts irresistible ( see below ) , and skaldic poetry is sometimes a valuable supplement to our other sources , especially on the fighting of Æthelred 's reign and Cnut 's activities in Scandinavia . |
| 25 | Felton declines to comment on the cost of producing a magazine lavish enough to make many editors green with envy , but says Shell underwrites 50 to 70 per cent of it . |
| 26 | On the other hand , Harold Pinter 's characters Mick and Aston from The Caretaker are familiar , and both of them are still young and exciting enough to make good choices . |
| 27 | Pangs of conscience , and ache of loneliness apart , I found that I was stimulated by the challenge of finding my way about this great and beautiful city , and by having to communicate — to try to speak French quickly enough to make actual conversation possible . |
| 28 | After months of surgery and chemotherapy , she recovered enough to make two films . |
| 29 | Maxim slammed the steering wheel with both hands , nearly hard enough to break it , certainly hard enough to make both palms sting . |
| 30 | 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 . |