Example sentences of "[verb] to make the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | War on the ground is really a man with a large field with curved corrugated metal huts to keep pigs in to grub all the vegetation off to feed them up to get themselves eaten by other men to help those men to have the energy to work to make the curved corrugated metal huts and grow other food in other fields that gets eaten by another lot of men who leave some of it to feed back to the pigs . |
| 2 | The revenue with the greatest financial potential became politically vulnerable when the Crown tried to make the potential actual . |
| 3 | Meanwhile tomorrow another British convoy again of about a hundred and eighty women and children is expected to make the long hot journey from Kuwait to Baghdad . |
| 4 | Conservative legal reforms form an accurate mapped-out policy , designed to make the rich richer , remove from society those who are not economically useful , and idealise law , order and the family . |
| 5 | Were the tax cuts designed to make the rich richer ? |
| 6 | I think I 'm improving and hope to make the top 50 , or even top 20 . |
| 7 | She was damned if she was going to make the first conciliatory move ; it would blunt the point of all she had done in Waterford . |
| 8 | The cigarette companies used this to justify tobacco advertising : they have maintained that , to reduce average tar yields , new brands will have to be introduced ( despite the fact that substantial changes have already been made to existing brands by simply altering their yields ) and advertising will be needed to make the public aware of these new brands . |
| 9 | Shipping is advised to keep well clear , and masters begin to make the complicated storm-avoidance manoeuvres well known to those familiar with these waters in this summer season . |
| 10 | But quite apart from these subsidiary deficiencies , it is clear that Euripides ' rejection of the Dionysiac was bound to make the true tragic effect unattainable . |
| 11 | The southern States , plus Texas , New Mexico and Arizona , would have to make the largest positive adjustments ( i.e. the largest increases in payments ) , whereas a number of northern State governments would have to reduce their levels . |
| 12 | Drumcree parish was further reduced in 1867 when another 5 townlands , together with some from Kilmore , went to make the other new parish of Diamond Grange . |
| 13 | Many researchers fail to make the best possible use of libraries simply because they know so little about the bibliographical tools that are available to help them . |
| 14 | Items in angle brackets are not in the Portuguese text — they are inserted to make the back-translation readable . |
| 15 | MY SON is a teacher and I 've seen how hard he has worked to make the new national curriculum a success in his classroom . |
| 16 | What will be the firm 's demand for labour on the assumption that it wishes to make the biggest possible profit ? |
| 17 | The greater this distance , the longer the time taken to make the final uncovered dash ( T ) , and so a duck can afford to lower its peeking rate . |
| 18 | Anselm was determined to make the clearest possible break with past practice : henceforth no priest or deacon was to be allowed , on any pretext whatsoever , to have a wife and continue to carry out his duties , and he had prepared an elaborate series of provisional arrangements to cope with the shortage of qualified priests under the new regulations . |
| 19 | Or are you trying to make the poor fellow jealous ? ’ |
| 20 | If he becomes Chancellor , it will be a gift for cartoonists , with MacGregor trying to make the huge public deficit disappear and pulling rabbits out of hats . |
| 21 | In addition the fall in energy costs benefit industries and economic output and help to make the Japanese current account surplus even larger . |
| 22 | Finally , it was suggested that widespread philosophical , political and economic beliefs serve to make the relative small amount of measured redistribution that appears to take place the order not only for today but for tomorrow as well . |
| 23 | Members of the Department of Social Anthropology and the Audio-Visual Aids Unit Cambridge are collaborating to make the first experimental videodisc at Cambridge University . |
| 24 | The survey also pointed to two weaknesses : marketing ( where it failed to make the top ten ) and capacity to innovate ( where it came seventh ) . |
| 25 | In 1978 the act was amended to make the earliest mandatory retirement age 70 and to eliminate it entirely for federal employees . |
| 26 | George waved and Maxim was released to make the last few yards by himself . |
| 27 | If he fails to make the top nine in the European money list , he would accept , if offered , one of the three wild card places by Bernard Gallacher , the non-playing captain . |
| 28 | In free fall the coordinates can be chosen to make the metric diagonal , in which case reduces to and . |
| 29 | Otherwise , a complete bulk transfer will be required to make the two consistent again . |
| 30 | Despite being outnumbered , unaware of the enemy 's dispositions and ignorant of the terrain , Hamilton was ordered to make the first British landings on 25 April at the southern tip of the peninsula near Cape Helles , while Anzac troops went ashore about 24km/15mls farther up the Aegean coast near Gaba Tepe . |