Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 2 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
| 3 | But to show how ecumenical they were , they also once burnt an Archbishop of Canterbury ; several Prime Ministers ; Enoch Powell ; Richard Nixon ; Stalin ; all sorts of people , even poor Mr Heath , not so much because he was a villain but because it is so easy to make a guy in the semblance of Mr Heath . |
| 4 | In our part of the world we keep up the brave talk for the sake of the image of the region , so that there may be at least some inward investment and so that those industrialists , small business , training centres , local enterprises and cooperatives which are struggling so hard to make a go of it , will not be discouraged from at least having a go , but there is n't much hope and conviction really . |
| 5 | One of the reasons for following a routine like this is so that you are less likely to make a mistake . |
| 6 | If you understand WHY you have to do certain things , you 're less likely to make a mistake . |
| 7 | One important study , the Oxford Study suggests , however , that people from the higher socio-economic groups are less likely to make a claim for damages consequent upon personal injury being suffered . |
| 8 | It is especially important to make a will if you are gay or unmarried and have a partner you wish to provide for . |
| 9 | In the Old World , the Omomyidae were highly successful , crowding out the two other families , who were only able to make a living by becoming nocturnal . |
| 10 | Police say his victims ignored the risks because they were so desperate to make a sale after the slump hit their business . |
| 11 | For example , in practice it is extremely difficult to make a brain lesion that entirely removes one part of the brain while leaving the rest intact ; they are either too large or too small . |
| 12 | It 's terribly difficult to make a call to those sort of islands as they do n't have many telephones . |
| 13 | Owing to the growth of economic opportunity and social mobility , it was now less necessary to make a child accept its calling as a dictate of God . |
| 14 | However , past experience at other rubbish-burning plants , such as the Greater London Council 's incinerator at Edmonton in North London , suggests that the Corby version will need to be extremely efficient to make a profit . |
| 15 | It is scarcely possible to make a choice between the two dates . |
| 16 | Basically our belief is that it is not possible to make a profit . |
| 17 | Because of this it is not possible to make a distinction based on the difference between wholesale and retail sales . |
| 18 | But these systems are rogues because they do not convert the NTSC signal into PAL , so it is not possible to make a PAL copy of an NTSC original . |
| 19 | Might not this make a pamphlet of some kind ? |
| 20 | They are used for a bit of horticulture and , increasingly , for a bit of ’ horseyculture ’ — and the horses do not half make a mess on the ground ! |
| 21 | The company is not likely to make a profit either in the second half of this year or next year . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's not lucky to make a will . |
| 23 | A Hollywood studio decided it was not safe to make a picture about the peacemaker , Hiawatha , because ‘ It might be regarded as a message for peace and therefore helpful to Communist designs ’ . |
| 24 | Although there would undoubtedly have been job losses after the merger , the proposal can be viewed as a relatively straightforward attempt to restructure and then rationalise an industry with excess capacity , with firms which were insufficiently large to exploit economies of scale and thus unable to make a profit . |
| 25 | occasionally one feels , as a teacher , rather like a soccer referee who , having blown his whistle for the kick-off , finds the players disconcertingly reluctant to make a move and is reduced to dribbling the ball himself furiously from end to end , scoring brilliant goals in undefended nets , while the motionless players look curiously on . |
| 26 | Their Lordships are unable to agree with the Court of Appeal that the judge was not entitled to make a finding that it was a material fact that the Perot family were interested in buying Vertigo as well as Caliban . |
| 27 | If in the judgment of the police authorities , formed reasonably and in good faith , the garrison was necessary for the protection of life and property , then they were not entitled to make a charge for it , for that would be to exact a payment for the performance of a duty which they clearly owed to the appellants and their servants ; but if they thought the garrison a superfluity and only acceded to Mr. James 's request with a view to meeting his wishes , then in my opinion they were entitled to treat the garrison duty as special duty and to charge for it … … . |
| 28 | Observers such as IDC 's David Smith believe that of the big three HP is the most likely to make a move because unity plays to HP 's hand , something he says is not the case with either IBM or Digital . |
| 29 | Smaller minority parties which might come into play include the Welsh and Scottish nationalists — the latter most likely to make a deal with Labour , based on a common ground on economic and social policy . |
| 30 | ‘ Is n't it rather unusual to make a display of your own collection of medieval artefacts ? |