Example sentences of "[adj] make a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 2 | Erm we have put forward an alternative er mechanism for environmental discounts and er I can say by at this stage , by reference to the erm critique that has taken place of that of those environmental discounts in N Y eleven , that erm , while we would n't go along with making anywhere near the the additions that are suggested there , erm it may be that it would be sensible to make a further discount in respect of the heritage coast . |
| 3 | Or , more probably , since he is a serving naval officer , that the paternal grandmother , the Queen , was likely to make a better job than their mother of bringing them up . |
| 4 | If we can recognise such features and foster them , we may be able to make a wiser choice in obtaining analytical data . |
| 5 | His successor , John Carthew , was able to make a bigger impact within the District . |
| 6 | If the tenant could not exploit the land directly himself , with his own resources and those of his family , he would have to hire labour , but it seems likely that the small farmer was able to make a better profit than the great man , because his lands were not encumbered by a costly and unproductive bureaucracy . |
| 7 | Men may suffer just as much when a relationship fails , but they seem able to make a cleaner break . |
| 8 | USL needs OSI to make a better showing to justify the large investment , worth many person/years of effort , that it has poured into the technology since 1987 . |
| 9 | Nor did it provide the detailed information on local labour markets , particularly at the occupational level , that would have been necessary to make a fuller judgement . |
| 10 | It is unlikely that any component of the nervous system carries out exactly the same computation as the zero-crossing detector described in the previous paragraph but it is possible to make a simpler device that works very much like a zero-crossing detector . |