Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] to make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is the return date by which the claimant must return the completed Summons to court following service and by which the debtor requires to advise the court whether he wishes to defend the action or offer to make payment by instalments . |
| 2 | As Michael Paffard puts it in 1978 : " Not all men [ are ] equally qualified by learning or experience to make value judgements about literature or to be called literary critics . " |
| 3 | ‘ You said it was hardly in accord with your rank and honour to make use of the oath of fealty to lure a man treacherously to his death . |
| 4 | All he could do was chip out and hope to make par . |
| 5 | Baby mesomorphs have a large appetite , and like to make feeds last a long time . |
| 6 | Well zose batardes cochons , whenever ah am in ze dressing rhoeume zat Pallisteur ‘ e jump on me and try to make leurve . |
| 7 | It should recognize , and try to make sense of , the inter-connectedness of our lives . |
| 8 | Keep your eyes open for the names of new writers on the magazines you read regularly and try to make contact by letter or telephone . |
| 9 | You stand by the window with a pathetic glass of lemonade while all father 's secretaries drink champagne and try to make conversation with hoards of people who do n't know enough to speak English . |
| 10 | Occupational Therapists are specially trained to deal with the problems of disabled people and try to make life as easy as possible for them . |
| 11 | ‘ In the hope that he 'll see the pattern and try to make use of it . ’ |
| 12 | A much more useful and realistic approach is to study recordings of different speakers ' natural , spontaneous speech and try to make generalisations about attitudes and intonation on this basis . |
| 13 | If , on the other hand , a child with a roughly similar basic disability is a cause for acute anxiety to the parents , who either make excessive demands or over-protect , and fail to make use of the available care and educational facilities , rapidly rejecting the child altogether as unrewarding and unmanageable , such a child might find low intelligence a severe handicap . |
| 14 | If we do n't modernize we lose competitive edge and have to make men redundant , and if we do modernize we have to make men redundant because we do n't need 'em any more . ’ |
| 15 | Years of devoted service , but time to make way for a younger man . |
| 16 | Play with them without an audience , but remember to make adjustments when the audience is present . |
| 17 | Such references are not mandatory , but help to make quality checking easier . |
| 18 | ‘ . If we assume — and it is probably the right assumption — that students can no longer easily read isolated literary texts , but need to make sense of them in a variety of contexts , much power is given to the teacher who decides which are the relevant cultural codes to be invoked and expounded ; Marxists , at least , are specific on the matter . |