Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to make the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second volume , however , had a number of letters as well as an unfinished play to make the required length . |
| 2 | It had taken their combined savings to make the down payment on a house in overcrowded Tollemarche and Isobel had declared that she could manage without a car . |
| 3 | Fourth , I will describe how the organisation of the curriculum into arbitrary hierarchies is compounded by some attempts to make the National Curriculum accessible to all pupils . |
| 4 | Many have another trick to make the most of the available light . |
| 5 | The journalist with whom I 'd joined TWW on the same week from sister papers in Cardiff had wickedly gone into another room to make the mischievous call . |
| 6 | He informed the Sheriffs of his planned meeting , and helped lay another trap to make the final arrests . |
| 7 | Mr Honecker chose a different image to make the same point : attempts to destabilise socialism , he said , are like ‘ the fruitless attacks by Don Quixote against windmills that continue to turn imperturbably . ’ |
| 8 | A more pressing issue for Europe is that no makeshift Italian government is likely to cut Italy 's public expenditure , let alone raise taxes , to reduce public debt to make the 1993 deadline set for European convergence at Maastricht . |
| 9 | Real people making real pledges to make the real difference in their own lives . |
| 10 | If the system incorporates a bilevel or chopper drive circuit the current control can be over-ridden at the appropriate times to make the full supply voltage available continuously . |
| 11 | Now France says it wants to concentrate its effort to help less developed countries to make the best use of computer technology through its World Centre for Informatics , in Paris . |
| 12 | Wallace got another in the second half to make the final score 2–0 , bring the car in future boys . |
| 13 | As she went to the market with Ferdinando , each shopping for their respective households — though since hers had shrunk to nothing Wilson had no real need to make the daily pilgrimage — the excitement was unmistakable and so was its nature . |
| 14 | His Highnesse the Prince of Orange ( whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious Instrument of delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power ) Did ( by the advice of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and divers principall persons of the Commons ) Cause Letters to be written to the Lords Spirituall and Temporall being Protestants and other Letters to the several Count yes Citties Universities Burroughs and Cinqe Ports for the chuseing of such persons to represent them as were of right to be sent to Parliament to meet and sitt at Westminster upon the two and twentieth day of January in this Year 1688 in order to such an establishment as that their Religion Lawes and Libertyes might not againe be in danger of being subverted . |
| 15 | Rejected moves to make the European Parliament the principal legislative body of the EC , and transform the Council of Ministers into a consultative body with no powers of veto over the parliament . |
| 16 | It seemed such an impossible feat to make the best of a bad deal that he made no attempt at it . |
| 17 | And he wants the Liberal Democrats to make the third world a high priority if they play a part in government . |
| 18 | Yet , in Britain , at least , little surfaces to make the average person pause for thought . |
| 19 | We are nature 's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove sounder than the reflex . |
| 20 | But while the latter was hobnobbing with John Stuart Mill and publishing treatises on English grammar , the former was modifying a system of synchronised electric clocks to make the first fax machine . |
| 21 | The annual celebration of the ‘ World day of the Sick ’ , therefore , has the manifest purpose of making the People of God and , as a consequence , the many Catholic health care institutions and civil society itself , more aware of the necessity of ensuring the best possible care for the infirm ; of helping the sick person to make the most of suffering , on the human level , but most of all on the supernatural one ; of especially helping the dioceses , Christian communities and religious families to be involved in the health care of apostolate ; of enhancing the ever more valuable commitment of volunteers ; or reminding people of the importance of the spiritual and moral training of health care workers , and last of all of creating a better understanding of the importance of religious care for the sick among diocesan and religious priests , as well as among those who live and work at the side of the person in pain . |
| 22 | More recently , we have learnt to become grateful for robust programs which will do 95% of the work and leave the human being to make the decisive intervention in the other 5% of cases . |
| 23 | The great cathedrals bore witness to a towering vision of transcendence yet , at the same time , expressed a confidence in the human ability to make the great leap necessary to bridge the gulf between heaven and earth . |
| 24 | The courting male , consequently , relies on visual signals to make the female aware of his presence and his purpose . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The modern social worker 's role is an enabling one , helping elderly people to make the best use of their own inner resources as well as the many social services available , and to retain some independence for as long as possible . |
| 27 | It is probably more accurate to say that as a package the new employment system used traditional symbols to make the unfamiliar appear customary . |
| 28 | Those who can fully grieve over an unexpected disaster , like the sudden loss of a limb or blindness , will be in a far better state to make the best use of the faculties left . |
| 29 | They will have exchanged their pieces of paper with their attention on the specific terms on the front , and the administrative process of placing and logging an order , but , in many cases , they will not have the legal training to make the proper analysis of the situation . |
| 30 | If surgery for genuine stress incontinence is required suprapubic surgery is generally more likely than vaginal surgery to make the patient continent , although the risk of complications is higher . |