Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three E 32 issues on which the Board agreed to make substantive changes relate to inventories , research and development costs , and borrowing costs . |
| 2 | One would not use coins to try to make any deductions about economic history or matters such as liquidity if government statistics were available ; one would not study the architecture of Roman temples from coins if the temples still survived . |
| 3 | Some employers tried to make potential participants swear allegiance to heterosexuality before they would pay their conference fee . |
| 4 | ‘ Musicians want to make new sounds so you start adding strings : you get seven , nine , even 11 strings . |
| 5 | The authorities want to make wealthy pensioners pay their hospital costs . |
| 6 | A draft code of guidance designed to make public inquiries quicker , more efficient and cheaper has been issued by the Secretary of State for Scotland . |
| 7 | Faced by an enemy triumphant on their own territory , the French parties tried to make common cause . |
| 8 | He was , as a bacteriologist , interested in the microbiological aspects , and as an enthusiast for technical methods , in the use of Penicillium extracts to make selective culture media ( i.e. media in which a required organisms will grow readily while unwanted contaminants fail either through lack of an essential nutrient or because something is present which stops them ) . |
| 9 | While Sadat was praised in the West as a saintly figure prepared to make great sacrifices in order to end the strife between Muslin and Jew , in the Middle East he was widely denounced as a traitor and a knave . |
| 10 | TODAY has launched an investigation to uncover some of the methods used to make under-the-counter payments to players and managers . |
| 11 | The large looms needed to make carpet-size items are difficult to transport , and so the vast majority of their output consists of small and medium-size rugs and a range of bags and other tribal artifacts . |
| 12 | It took time before Byrnes began to make full use of the American foreign service , let alone to give much thought to working with the British Foreign Office . |
| 13 | Edward started to make unusual entries in his diary . |
| 14 | The message should be that schools are about education and learning and that worthwhile learning is hard work and we in good schools try to make this work as pleasurable as possible . |
| 15 | ‘ Much of the Government 's approach to crime helps to make little crooks bigger criminals . |
| 16 | It is surely a matter for concern , however , that manufacturers fail to make any mention of this problem in their manuals . |
| 17 | The selective use of vous and tu forms in dialogues involving different characters suggests that the French translator had to make conscious decisions about the nature of the relationships among different characters in the story and about the social standing of these characters as reflected in their adoption of certain conventions to do with approved/non-approved expression of familiarity and/or deference . |
| 18 | As each new AGR started construction , such serious engineering and design problems were encountered that the designers had to make major alterations to the next in the series . |
| 19 | On Friday in Washington President Clinton will meet Germany 's Chancellor Kohl as the new US president continues to make personal acquaintanceship with world leaders . |
| 20 | In the second place , the analogy fails to make any distinction between the way bodies behave and the way inanimate objects behave . |
| 21 | Many animals need to make long journeys over unfamiliar country during the normal course of their lives . |
| 22 | And with a near full strength team Middlesbrough hope to make full use of their home advantage tomorrow ( 1pm ) . |
| 23 | Ten minutes seemed to make little difference , with the jerry-cans still discernible on the roof-rack . |
| 24 | But , far short of this point , the various circumstances combine to make poorer people tend to use relatively costly forms of credit . |
| 25 | But there was a setback on Saturday when the French National League 's ( FNL ) disciplinary committee failed to make any ruling at a nine-hour meeting in Paris because they said they did not have enough evidence . |
| 26 | It was also suggested that should the Chancellor need to make urgent calls to the International Monetary Fund , his telephone at home was likely to be more secure than calls from a hotel in Blackpool surrounded by journalists . |
| 27 | Earlier research has shown that if projects of this kind are to be successful , management needs to make organisational changes , as well as technical ones . |
| 28 | Some feminists have also used Lacanian psychoanalysis to try to make marxist theories of class take gender and subjectivity more seriously , and have attempted integrated accounts of these different areas of experience . |
| 29 | Public disorder incidents are frequently transitory and fleeting events ; the constable has to make quick decisions as to what course of action to adopt for the best . |
| 30 | So this debate is not about saving foxes , it will achieve nothing for animal welfare it is not about the merits or otherwise of fox hunting , from which it diverts attention , it is about the county council seeking to make hollow gestures against their tenants ' rights . |