Example sentences of "[noun] to make the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his bid to make the top eight and earn Iron some cash from the Beazer Homes kitty , he keeps faith with the squad that outplayed Witney last week after Glenn Russell 's dismissal , but still lost 3–1 . |
| 2 | Oates went with Scott to make the first British depot . |
| 3 | The courting male , consequently , relies on visual signals to make the female aware of his presence and his purpose . |
| 4 | Medical evidence would be relevant only to establish whether what the doctor did was deemed acceptable medical practice to make the dying patient comfortable . |
| 5 | To provide a stimulus for schools to make the best possible use of all the available learning resources inside and outside the school — money , people , space , equipment and learning materials — in meeting their objectives . |
| 6 | To provide a stimulus for schools to make the best possible use of all the available learning resources inside and outside the school money , people , space , equipment and learning materials — in meeting their objectives . |
| 7 | If the evaluation of the loss becomes generalised , the person will see himself as a loser , lacking in skills and opportunities to make the future rewarding . |
| 8 | Mark Pretty removed the offending hold , but it was left to Robin Barker to make the first free ascent of the Free Monster E6+ 6c ( F7c+ ) . |
| 9 | However , when the USSR Supreme Soviet convened for its third session on Feb. 14 , the Presidium unexpectedly failed to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority for a proposal to call the Congress of People 's Deputies into emergency session by the end of February to make the necessary constitutional changes . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) The wife shall not so long as the husband shall punctually make the payments hereby agreed to be made commence or prosecute against the husband any matrimonial proceedings other than proceedings for dissolution of marriage but upon failure of the husband to make the said weekly payments as and when the same become due the wife shall be at full liberty on her election to pursue all and every remedy in this regard either by enforcement of the provisions hereof or as if this agreement had not been made.n So far as we know , the parties have remained apart ever since . |
| 11 | It is as if academic freedom were a largely fixed commodity that was passed around among the groups contending for the right to make the key academic decisions . |
| 12 | In the 74th minute Furlong forced Cherry to make the first serious save of the match , and soon afterwards the goalkeeper had to turn a shot from Flynn round a post . |
| 13 | In other experiments , Papi has shown that pigeons do not home accurately if their nostrils are blocked , or if their olfactory nerve is cut , or if they are experimentally distracted by a strong smell ; but other experimenters have failed to repeat these results and it has proved impossible to train pigeons to make the relevant olfactory distinctions ( which is a standard , and powerful , method of testing for sensory abilities — p. 43 . |
| 14 | Recognising this problem led scholars in the area to make the first serious use of what are called longitudinal studies . |
| 15 | Two Guides — one a simple introduction , the other a detailed explanation of all the dictionary contains — encourage students and teachers to make the best possible use of the dictionary . |
| 16 | It was one thing to make the necessary financial decisions , and another to obtain the right candidate for the post . |
| 17 | Finally , the three mainstays of Franco 's power — the Catholic Church , the Armed Forces and the Party — were sufficiently loyal in the main to make the occasional critical voice as of one crying in the wilderness . |
| 18 | And at a higher level , religion , too , has much basis in the fear of the unknown and is in part an effort to make the fearful understandable and therefore more easily manageable . |
| 19 | He chastises them for their lack of true commitment to the supply-side faith and their unwillingness to make the necessary hard choices . |
| 20 | I beg to move , That this House , noting that the ten million people today living on or below the income support level of less than £40 a week for an adult represent the greatest numbers in poverty in Britain since the war , and that the Government has as a deliberate policy over twelve years further impoverished the poorest one third of the nation to make the rich richer , calls on the Government to reverse its policies of increasing poverty and unemployment and to give priority to the growing millions excluded from the rights and opportunities of real citizenship by increasing pensions by £5 per week for a single pensioner and by £8 a week for a married couple , by re-instituting the pension link with earnings which the Government broke twelve years ago , and by restoring to families the losses in child benefit from three years of government freeze . |
| 21 | At this point , there is only one possible way to make the remaining three tricks . |
| 22 | On the British side Howden shielded machines with no rear sealing are sufficient for most conditions although they do include an emergency system to make the cutting waterproof if necessary . |
| 23 | It was as though his mind was disposed only to preserve enough details of his history to make the present plausible . |
| 24 | In the heyday of Napoleon 's conquests he had access to fossils from all over Europe and was thus in a position to make the first comprehensive study . |
| 25 | Evolutionary pressures would have gone to work on whatever genetic variability there was in the ability to make the relevant cross-modal associations underlying linguistic competence . |
| 26 | In practice , of course , the actual amount we lend will depend on your ability to make the regular monthly repayments without putting a strain on your finances . |
| 27 | If Jesus died in order to make the unjust justified , he also endowed them with his Spirit in order to make them just . |
| 28 | But there is already a head of steam in parliament to make the proposed voluntary takeover code legally binding . |
| 29 | This process abandons the old idea that it is necessary to start with a two-carbon feedstock to make the two-carbon acetic acid . |
| 30 | Such abilities and equipment gave them the opportunity to make the big evolutionary breakthrough which eventually lead to Homo sapiens . |