Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as ag I will , I 'll be returning to this obviously in consideration of Italy and Germany , but it is perhaps worth making this point now . |
| 2 | I do n't want to say much about making any decision . |
| 3 | For instance– ‘ Thanks very much for making that suggestion — do you want to say ally more about it ? ’ |
| 4 | Bayfield and England captain Will Carling are playing only after making near-miraculous recoveries from injuries against Otago in Dunedin last weekend . |
| 5 | Philip cast one glance at him , observed the signs , and thought better of making any demands on him . |
| 6 | Sadly Mr 's proposal fell on a technicality , but I think he put his finger on something which I felt the assembly was , was responding to , that we are not finished with this issue and although it fell on a technicality about money , perhaps without making any addendums and motions we might er refuse this addendum and keep our minds on the baptism issue and hope that the Board of Practice and Procedure and the panel on doctrine will pick up the substance and the , the essence of what Mr was asking for and pursue this matter until as a church we can get it sorted out to the satisfaction of all the groups within the church . |
| 7 | David , who received his award from Jonathan Paul , the chairman of the newly-merged company , puts his success down to making better silage and improving the utilisation of grass on his 100-acre farm . |
| 8 | Article 1 of the Single European Act reads : The European Communities and European political Cooperation shall have as their objective to contribute together to making concrete progress towards European unity . ’ |
| 9 | As you will probably know , if you think you can do better by making independent provision , you are not obliged to remain in SERPS but instead can invest in a personal pension . |
| 10 | They agreed to start afresh by making certain favourites available only contingent on good behaviour . |
| 11 | Only by making these changes can we regain the ground which we lost during the recession in our core geographic market , Scotland . |
| 12 | Even people who managed to stay married seemed to do it only by making incredible compromises which I thought was contemptible . ’ |
| 13 | What is said above about making consistent lists is even more important in a tonal language where the sound(s) to check should ideally be in words having the same tone pattern . |
| 14 | But he 's not above making furtive preparations for the worst . |
| 15 | The analysts encountered many problems in the process of bridging this gap , but each problem was addressed in turn and an appropriate solution found , generally by making imaginative use of computer software to record and manipulate the mass of data that was produced as the analysis progressed . |
| 16 | It is not difficult to see how capitalist entrepreneurship might prosper under such ethical norms : not by making monetary gain an end in itself but as an almost incidental product of thrift . |
| 17 | Saidi Safari , a local Muslim trader , came forward to pay the fines but was himself arrested shortly afterwards — possibly for making critical remarks about the incident . |
| 18 | The Professional Association of Teachers has produced details of a particularly disturbing case in which a teacher in the independent sector was summarily dismissed very rapidly after making serious allegations against a colleague . |
| 19 | Potential suitors are believed to be holding off from making outright bids for fear that there may be further black holes in Ferranti 's balance sheet . |
| 20 | An allocation is Pareto-efficient if there is no reallocation of resources that would make some people better off without making some people worse off . |
| 21 | Klondyke Trading Co are responsible for providing a variety of straps for both the home market and the world , but as I found out on a recent visit there 's more to making one guitar strap than meets the eye , let alone producing thousands . |
| 22 | Better quality work did not necessarily pay better ; for instance , a worker generally earned more by making plain blouses than ones with collars , cuffs and tucks . |
| 23 | What little time remained for indoor work was occupied mainly in making clean copies of the maps and in writing memoirs on the coalfield areas . |
| 24 | Work now on making this aspect of your writing stronger , stranger , less expected . |
| 25 | Both operators are currently battling it out by making special offers on their primary rate connection charges . |
| 26 | There are directions here for making accurate buffers , and for building metallochrome spectrophotometers , the latter a chapter . |
| 27 | This may meet the criticisms of those who believe that many private sector applications are of low quality and concerned simply with making high profits . |
| 28 | The standard method attributes to taxable ( both zero and positive-rated ) or exempt supplies , that input tax on goods and services which is used or is to be used exclusively in making such supplies ( Reg 30 ) . |
| 29 | Allowing 10 minutes per client for collection each week , assuming the collector gets rather less than average industrial earnings and himself copes with all the paperwork involved during those 10 minutes , and assuming that the trading check firm pays the shops where the check has been used ( less its commission — perhaps 12½ per cent ) about a month after writing the check , the actual return to the lender would work out at only 7 per cent — that is to say , less than the firm 's own borrowing costs would be , even without making any allowance for either bad debts and late payments or office overheads . |
| 30 | by creating a need to satisfy the capital market ( ie by making good profits ) in order to gain access to funds for borrowing . |