Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He governs , so far as he is able to , on borrowed time because none of the groups contending for power yet feels strong enough to make a grab for it . |
| 2 | McCrory , 28 , quit to the ring after being knocked out in two rounds by Lewis 21 months ago but trimmed back down to cruiser and felt strong enough to make a comeback . |
| 3 | You 've practically got to be committed under the mental health act before you 're not sound enough to make a will . |
| 4 | I mean , you 'd think he 'd just have a few enough to make a pie or a crumble |
| 5 | Fold this in half diagonally to make a triangle . |
| 6 | This too made a number of very steep turns and made for nearby cloud , though its port engine was believed damaged , and possibly the rear gunner killed . |
| 7 | You can , if you wish , test your heartbeat by taking your pulse for ten seconds and multiplying it by six thus making a minute . |
| 8 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 9 | ‘ The way I look at it , they 're over there and are lucky enough to make a dollar for something they enjoy . |
| 10 | The only difference her success made was that she thought her an incompetent fool who was lucky enough to make a bit of money . ’ |
| 11 | can drive , but she wo n't be quick enough to make a decision |
| 12 | All you have to do is draw all the little bits of an object and push them all together to make a silhouette of the object and then performing one combine operation joins them all together to make an outline that would take you a lot longer to draw in one piece . |
| 13 | ‘ Now , you 're sure you feel well enough to make a statement ? ’ he asked for the second or third time . |
| 14 | good enough to make a will . |
| 15 | And religion divorced from morality is like ‘ sounding brass ' ’ good only making a noise and breaking heads . ’ |
| 16 | I ca n't believe you 're telling me the truth because that would mean if everybody worked overtime on that basis , we 'd all still making a profit . |
| 17 | If a fork results from repeats in the genome ( and is therefore likely to violate the neighbourhood rules given below ) , it is reasonable simply to make a break in the contig because it represents a limit of the experimental technique used and other approaches using longer probes or clones may help to close the gap . |
| 18 | However efficient we think that we are , if we 're honest with ourselves we have to admit we all sometimes make a mistake . |
| 19 | I 'm going to get ca n't get no blinds but they put up with that though make a drink coffee . |
| 20 | 3 Better make a decision than none at all . |
| 21 | Most headhunting firms , especially Korn/Ferry , will take the view that if people are interested , willing , motivated and tenacious enough to make a success then they will support them . |
| 22 | But it does n't seem to apply to those already making a mint . |
| 23 | I , I think I would be unwise too to make a forecast , so all , all I can say is there are some enquiries around of er , people who appear to be interested but erm , er , you know , the burden hangs quite a lot , you know the burden 's still , the is quite a long way away still , but it 's not impossible we could sell some more land . |
| 24 | If the Outhwaite investors get their way in court , much of the burden of the claims could fall on other Lloyd 's underwriters who sell ‘ errors and omission ’ policies , designed to cover against losses because a professional simply made a mistake . |
| 25 | Big enough to make a sun of the light . |
| 26 | There were some er farms say of fifteen or twenty acres which was n't quite big enough to make a living . |
| 27 | As Esterly puts it , ‘ I 'm the only person crazy enough to make a living out of original limewood foliage work . |
| 28 | Their big forwards made a science of gaining the hard yards up the middle , purely as a prelude to sending the ball wide to their backs . |
| 29 | Sainsbury has expressed an interest in the site but a Government clause imposed during the bus privatisation programme means Caldaire can keep only 35pc of the purchase price above £1.3 million effectively making a move financially impossible . |
| 30 | The Ibos in Nigeria and the Bamilike in Cameroun are both groups who in the 1950s and 1960s respectively made a bid for predominant national power ; they failed , and continue to feel excluded from the political mainstream of their countries . |