Example sentences of "[subord] make [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those with a taste for the bizarre could do worse than make their first night 's stop at the Madonna Inn , ready for a tour of the Hearst Castle next day . |
| 2 | It was somehow better than making her own suppositions , which seemed to take an awful amount of energy and caused a lot of stress . |
| 3 | Well it 's better than making it all up . |
| 4 | ‘ Why else did you tell me about Cherith — except to make it clear that nothing was on offer here except a little temporary pleasure ? |
| 5 | Another significant filmmaker who came out of television was Ken Russell , who continued working on his imaginative TV interpretations of the lives of such composers as Elgar , Delius and Richard Strauss while making his first , uneven , forays into cinema with French Dressing ( 1963 ) and Billion Dollar Brain ( 1965 ) . |
| 6 | Clarke explains his mysteries right into the ground , even while making his astronomical facts blossom . |
| 7 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has said that it is impossible to itemise every circumstance that amounts to a breach of natural justice , while making it clear that , for example , a manager should not normally act both as ‘ witness and judge ’ in the procedure leading to a decision to dismiss . |
| 8 | So , if you feel strongly about male babysitters , speak out — while making it clear that it 's not personal , it 's just for the sake of your peace of mind . |
| 9 | Robert had still not been able to discover the headmaster 's first name , although on occasions Malik had asked to be addressed as Abdul , while making it clear that this was not his name . |
| 10 | While making it easier for people to build up considerable capital assets , and to pass these on intact , the Government has taken a number of measures that have allowed many people to acquire capital assets for the first time . |
| 11 | The house would go more to rack than ever and serve no purpose but to make everyone concerned more miserable than they are already . ’ |
| 12 | I was unsure whether to make her Northern , like my own mother , which works wonderfully well with Zelma-like lines , eg. ‘ If you were me , would you wear the blue dress with the beading that everyone 's seen me in , or the new one I 've kept hanging up for two years ? ’ or ‘ Sha n't I buy the beef , then ? |
| 13 | They talked about how to write The Yellow Chair , whether to make it stark and classical by keeping the unities , restricting the action to the terrible days of the battle with Gauguin , or whether to make it episodic and epic , to introduce Theo at least and maybe other figures , even the looming pastor from Nuenen . |
| 14 | They talked about how to write The Yellow Chair , whether to make it stark and classical by keeping the unities , restricting the action to the terrible days of the battle with Gauguin , or whether to make it episodic and epic , to introduce Theo at least and maybe other figures , even the looming pastor from Nuenen . |
| 15 | She eventually decided to embark on a degree in business studies , and in the meantime , to move in with Jim ‘ to see whether to make it permanent or split up ’ . |
| 16 | The Regional Committees will be informed immediately of this selection so that they can take it into account when making their own choices . |
| 17 | It was pointed out that the official procedure for collating Garden computer equipment bids remained within the remit of cost centre managers , who are asked to submit supplementary estimates when making their own Departmental submissions . |
| 18 | Margaret Thatcher is supposed to have applied the acid test of ‘ Is he one of us ? ’ when making her senior appointments . |
| 19 | This process will make you very familiar with your material and will provide valuable confidence when making your eventual presentation . |
| 20 | He was known for wanting to be photographed from every conceivable angle and vigorously applauded when making his inflammatory speeches , and I was looking forward to seeing in the flesh this extraordinary man of whom my parents had brought me up to disapprove . |
| 21 | Holding a child responsible is not the same as making her responsible ; we may succeed in the former , without her cooperation we can never succeed in the latter . |
| 22 | The candidates themselves may have to commit more time to the interview selection process ; the interviewers will have to ensure they leave enough time for discussion between themselves as well as making their own post-interview notes ; time will have to be set aside for the interviewers to meet and finalize their decision . |
| 23 | I have nt seen Best do anything I would regard as making him such a good player . |
| 24 | But in fact every creative and inventive and imaginative activity ( including that of inventing new tools ) is better done with the help of ‘ technology ’ , and so a failure to familiarize children at school with the use of such technology inhibits their imaginative potential , as well as making them incompetent and virtually unemployable when they leave school . |
| 25 | Such reformers usually saw themselves as making it possible for the Masai to survive as a race : getting obsessed with the Masai was not inherently a passive occupation . |
| 26 | As well as making it possible to see in the dark , thermal imagers penetrate mist , smoke and the lighter fogs . |
| 27 | This simplifies the issuing process itself , as well as making it easier to cope with long-term maintenance . |
| 28 | Make a note of the values at maximum and minimum and if they are not of equal magnitude adjust the zero-offset trimpot so as to make them equal . |
| 29 | Pre-prepared units of work should be labelled and stored so as to make them accessible to pupils and teachers alike . |
| 30 | Certain propositions are true because the relevant ideas are connected and related to each other in such a way as to make them true . |