Example sentences of "to make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment , no date for its formation has been set but Sir Geoffrey has been asked to make specific recommendations ‘ as soon as possible ’ . |
| 2 | The fourteenth century is another country to the young but in any case I do n't like to make specific parallels with events in more recent times . |
| 3 | Given the varying levels of computer expertise in Colleges at that time , and the current status of the proposed new systems , it was difficult to make specific proposals about how the associated responsibilities should be handled at College level . |
| 4 | I would now like to make specific proposals as to how the model of pragmatic mediation that I have proposed in these chapters might be made operational within a programme of in-service education for language teachers . |
| 5 | Bankers are generally in a position to make specific conditions for providing finance and so have little need for the audit , abbreviated accounts filed 10 months after the year end are of little value to trade suppliers and customers , and the Revenue 's reliance on audited accounts is ‘ largely illusory ’ , the Institute says . |
| 6 | Cumberland 's accounting policy on losses on loans and advances is to make specific provisions to cover losses on commercial assets . |
| 7 | The experts describe the problems that arise , outlining the main areas of choice , and go on to make specific proposals for improvement in reporting practice . |
| 8 | The recognition helix of the helix-turn-helix motif of σ 70 is supposed to make specific contacts with the base pairs of the DNA in the major groove from positions -32 to -36 [ 36 , 37 ] . |
| 9 | We have spent a good part of the last decade in a long and often rather frustrating attempt to identify them ( most recently by trying to make specific antibodies that will recognize them ) . |
| 10 | What these studies also show however is that parties are careful not to make specific pledges on matters of central importance , such as the economy or unemployment . |
| 11 | Alcohol consumption , smoking , and salicylate or NSAID ingestion were not exclusion criteria and physicians were asked not to make specific recommendations with regard to these factors or to diet . |
| 12 | Yes , Chair , erm , the Committee is now required under Department of Health directives to make specific policy statements and identify the resources implications formula , by way of a Children 's Service Plan . |
| 13 | It is usual to make specific provision for service of such notices , eg at the last known home address of a partner , in a way that will afford evidence that it has been duly given ( eg by registered delivery , entry in the firm 's post book etc ) . |
| 14 | While opposition parties are happy to comfort those hit by defence cuts they 're loath to make specific promises about who they might reprieve . |
| 15 | In the early 1980s they learnt to make concentrated powders . |
| 16 | One idea Kevin had was to make concentrated chicken stocks for flavour . |
| 17 | I say ‘ perhaps ’ because rhesus monkeys have recently been claimed to be able to make cross-modal associations . |
| 18 | ‘ But at the time , I did n't think the four years I had spent at Westminster Hotel School , learning to make classic garnishes , was right for the Golden Egg . |
| 19 | More recently , ‘ Synprolam , ’ which is used for cationic surfactants , was developed using feedstocks both from the carbonylation and amines plants to make long-chain fatty amines , which can then be reacted with ethylene oxide in the final manufacturing stage . |
| 20 | Ingrid 's machine is a smaller and much-adapted version of the industrial , multi-needled monsters used in the Yorkshire weaving and woollen mills to make insulating material and upholstery fabric . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Public ignorance , inhibition and ambiguity of feeling make sexual mountains from molehills and a titillatory Press is only too eager to make salacious copy out of any suspected deviation from " standard " morality . |
| 23 | If he wants to make European comparisons , I refer him , as I referred the hon. Member for Sheffield , Hillsborough ( Mr. Flannery ) , to what is happening in France . |
| 24 | Expo fever , Ruth had put it down to as Steve had been bowled over by the exquisite beauty of an air stewardess and , forgetting that the idea of being here was to make European contacts for their agency , had resigned himself to some enjoyable flirting . |
| 25 | So if you want to make sorry C O two if you want to make C O two out of something you 're going to at least have to have a C in it somewhere . |
| 26 | ‘ To make iced tea ! ’ |
| 27 | Owers , out for two months with pelvic trouble , and defender Bennett both bid to make reserve team comebacks at Barnsley tomorrow . |
| 28 | Sometimes I caught the Feldwebel looking wistfully out of the window at a dilapidated horse and cart or an old man on a bicycle but he controlled himself and tried to make polite conversation . |
| 29 | ‘ He was only tryin' to make polite conversation with you about the keyboards . |
| 30 | There were n't many people sitting near us , so I tried to make polite conversation , but he was n't having any . |