Example sentences of "[verb] to make the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our comprehensive gear guide tells you all you need to know to make the right choice |
| 2 | Most children begin Primary School at five or even just before , but Matilda 's parents , who were n't very concerned one way or the other about their daughter 's education , had forgotten to make the proper arrangements in advance . |
| 3 | Patients were instructed to fill in the two diaries for 14 days , but were not told that the computer automatically records date of data entry , nor were they given instructions of what to do should they have forgotten to make the daily entry . |
| 4 | The builder 's surveyor will therefore need to make the necessary adjustments for cost value reconciliation purposes . |
| 5 | Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) . |
| 6 | cars be permitted to make the lengthy journey out to Finchley and back down the other road to Cricklewood and Willesden , where they met other L.C.C . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , it was something like a castle , and he 'ad tons of servants and a butler as well , and a sister who was secretly a witch and tried to make the poor girl worship Satan , but — ’ |
| 8 | They tried to make the Social Work Department follow its guidelines , but some of the parents believed the social workers did n't know much about the document at all . |
| 9 | Soper was firmly in the tradition of those liberals who tried to make the Christian gospel more acceptable to ‘ modern man ’ by explaining away the supernatural and miraculous elements . |
| 10 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 11 | We have two principles of political integrity : a legislative principle , which asks lawmakers to try to make the total set of laws morally coherent , and an adjudicative principle , which instructs that the law be seen as coherent in that way , so far as possible . |
| 12 | And what do you say , do you say , ‘ I do n't agree with what that man says , it 's a bad book , I do n't like it or I wo n't read it ’ , or do you say , ‘ it 's probably useful for me to try to make the imaginative judgment to see things the way he sees them , to see the way the world looks like from his point of view , and I may reject that , but at least one ought to have some tolerance and some understanding ’ , and it seems that that 's where the study of literature meets life . |
| 13 | Each age and each individual has to make the imaginative effort to appropriate the religious tradition and make it their own , as Julian did . |
| 14 | The subcontractor then has to make the difficult choice of continuing work in the hope of being paid , or withdrawing his labour and reducing the probability of ultimate payment . |
| 15 | ‘ Obviously , anyone who has been oppressed for 40 years will have among their number people who want to make the complete lunge towards a so-called free market utopia . |
| 16 | We want sparkle on the job , and we want to make the right tools available . |
| 17 | This time we want to make the 1st division . |
| 18 | I merely want to make the limited point that many of these students — who may be highly intelligent — do not have the existing familiarity with poetry , not to mention the general knowledge and cultural literacy , that would enable them to engage as equals in genuinely critical discussion . |
| 19 | But as I say I do n't necessarily want to get involved in too much of the detail of the statistics of it , I simply want to make the overall point that we 've been told that there are three thousand unemployed . |
| 20 | ‘ We want to make the whole pie bigger so there 's more for us , more for them , more for everybody . ’ |
| 21 | You want to make the same point ? |
| 22 | If you want to make the naked truth unfurled ask tomorrow for the News of the World . |
| 23 | For most point to point is a good day out … an afternoon of country sport … the competition is keen … the racing hard and winning isn ’ t the be all and end all … for some horses and riders though this game is the first hurdle … a fence they have to jump to make the big time |
| 24 | Also , the importance of signs was stressed to make the whole area more friendly . |
| 25 | In a team where mutual respect exists , the leader will be trusted to make the best decisions , even if they go against your views . |
| 26 | Following the trend spearheaded by Unify Corp with its Accell 4GL toolset a few years ago , Ingres Corp is expected to make the first moves in liberating its own toolsets from the Ingres database next month . |
| 27 | Whilst the user companies can not be expected to make the necessary investment for themselves , this approach and its great benefits will remain unrealized . |
| 28 | Given that the units each do their particular thing , I can then understand how they interact to make the whole engine move . |
| 29 | UEFA is unlikely to reduce a punishment apparently designed to make the Dutch authorities , civil as well as sporting , take hooliganism as seriously as the British have been obliged to . |
| 30 | This project is designed to make the Continuous Household Survey ( CHS ) run by the Policy , Planning and Research Unit ( PPRU ) of the Department of Finance and Personnel ( Northern Ireland ) available to researchers for secondary analysis . |