Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( At that time the lesbians involved in the organizations of the conferences had all long since made positive decisions to be child-free . )
2 The SPD polled an average of 26.64 per cent ( 21.88 per cent in March 1990 ) , but apparently only made real inroads on CDU support in Brandenburg , with the respected East Berlin lay Protestant leader and lawyer Manfred Stolpe heading its campaign against the CDU 's Peter-Michael Diestel ( who had been criticized for his handling of the dissolution of the Stasi secret police — see p. 37828 ) .
3 I could not bring myself to suggest that she was not likely to live much longer , certainly not long enough to make either course imprudent .
4 However , none of the studies have gone on long enough to make reliable predictions .
5 So so just make little trips .
6 I 've only ever made one record , a Christmas song called ‘ Tonight for Santa Claus ’ .
7 Can it be true that , master of an essentially observational science , he has only ever made one observation in his life ( that is to say down the mines in Lancashire ) ?
8 While the diesel option has become popular among owners of off-roaders like the Discovery and the Mitsubishi Shogun , it has so far made little progress in the executive car class .
9 He had already clearly laid down his view in his opening speech to the session , in which he recognised that perestroika had so far made little impact on the acute social and economic crisis .
10 I wanted to continue my studies as a postgraduate at U.C.L. I was now interested in modern linguistic research , but knew very little about it , since linguistics had so far made little impact in the U.K. , and there was no teacher in the Department who could adequately supervise me in that area .
11 I agree with all the right hon. and hon. Members who said — I think that almost all who have spoken so far made this point — that it is very important to give Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland the prospect of joining the Community at least by the end of the decade , and to give them every possible assistance in meeting the economic and political conditions for membership as soon as possible .
12 So please make those contacts , so that you can erm , make arrangements to discuss , obviously things of mutual concern , promptly please , to your seminars , when we will continue some of the discussions we 've been having this morning , and thank you all very much indeed .
13 Now 37 , Jeff Koons long ago made enough money from his art never to need to work again .
14 Whatever the reasons , murder , rape , robbery , large-scale fraud and embezzlement , drug smuggling , gang warfare , delinquency and so on make good subjects for conversation and exciting and profitable stories and films .
15 It takes twenty times as much energy to make new aluminium as it does to melt down recycled aluminium , four times as much energy to make new steel as recycled , almost twice as much to create new paper and half as much again to make new glass .
16 He wanted runners in his pack , so Neath — Waldron 's club , as his antagonists accusingly pointed out — came into vogue even though the evidence was swiftly adduced that outstanding club players do not necessarily make adequate internationals .
17 But not enough to make old Deirdre suspicious .
18 The pressure might help but not enough to make commercial fusion , not at the level to create measurable heat .
19 Many countries of the world could not only make better use of wastes , but increase agricultural production of the crops of which surplus produce could best be used to manufacture fuels .
20 He reckoned that Biblical Christianity not only made more sense than any other religion or philosophy , but also it was the only one that had the power to produce real holiness of life in genuine believers .
21 But financial liberalisation and the greater integration of the world economy have not only made current-account deficits easier to sustain ; they have also made trade flows less useful as an indicator of national competitiveness .
22 She not only made Black Women in Britain professional artists , but also suggested , by our active support for our creativity , that any Black woman could be an artist .
23 Reducing emissions not only makes good sense environmentally , it can also yield cost savings .
24 the English working class … can never do anything decisive here in England until it separates its policy with regard to Ireland in the most definite way from the policy of the ruling class , until it not only makes common cause with the Irish , but actually takes the initiative in dissolving the Union established in 1801 , and replacing it by a federal relationship .
25 But the function of art history today is not only to make such identifications , but also to relate an individual work humanistically to other works of the same school , period and culture , while remaining sensitive to its salient aesthetic qualities .
26 This not merely makes direct comparison difficult , but it may also mean that such comparisons would be of questionable value given that they would not relate to the actual situation in which traditional and non-traditional students are competing for places , and in which their work and achievement can be meaningfully compared .
27 It 's commonly held that instruments are generally better made these days — even the cheap ones — and one of the prime benefits of this is that the purchaser has a better than even chance of buying a worthwhile instrument , regardless of cost .
28 Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome .
29 Decorative art does not usually make such demands .
30 However , many claim that they are typical of others , while a case-study does not usually make this claim .
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