Example sentences of "[adj] make the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is interesting to make the obvious observation that , while the first and last named are fanatical behaviourists , believing that everything is subject to unlimited moulding and rearrangement through a process of reward and punishment , the three in the middle are fanatical instinctivists , insisting that virtually everything and anything is inherited , a gift ( or a grief ) of the genes and not subject to the environment . |
| 2 | We were both trembling with desire , afraid to make the first move . |
| 3 | And we know there are various er responses to that question , and I would be looking to the districts to say whether or not they could cope with the various levels of provision that have been identified for Greater York , and it 's the view of whether they can cope within their own districts , I have n't said how you can cope , I said whether you can cope , you might I will I will leave you free to make the odd comment , but I want to focus on that part of the issue , and then the natural corollary to that is , will it be necessary , or is it considered necessary in the context of this alteration to provide specific guidance within H One policy for the distribution of that er development to er at sub , what I would call sub-district level , in other words do you want a specific entry for say Ryedale or Hambledon ? |
| 4 | Indeed he treated his children 's holidays and an uninterrupted period of married life as a stern duty for which he was prepared to make the supreme sacrifice . |
| 5 | Bonar Law was prepared to make the right noises — in 1913 at Manchester he called for a positive social policy in Disraelian lines for " the swing of the pendulum is not enough " , but he would give no more active support . |
| 6 | In early 1978 the Firefly was prepared to make the long road journey to its new home in Cambridgeshire . |
| 7 | She has come to tell them about the opportunities which await them if they are prepared to make the long journey to Oregon . |
| 8 | If , as the Minister says , we recouped so much money on the Gulf war , may I ask him to explain why the Ministry of Defence is being so mean and tight-fisted towards some of those who were prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice during that war ? |
| 9 | If you all get on well and are prepared to make the same sacrifices to succeed , you might just be ‘ the right stuff ’ . |
| 10 | If no lease was in existence at the time when the accused made the false representation , it is believed that the accused would not be guilty under s.15 of obtaining possession of the land by deception because he would not have the intention permanently to deprive . |
| 11 | The emerging calculations implied that muon catalysed fusion would not release as much energy as was needed to create the muons ; even if the muon were as stable as Alvarez 's ‘ ten or twenty minutes ’ the sticking makes the useful production of energy out of reach . |
| 12 | I seem to remember my Panini album once to my horror picturing Stewart rather than Harvey , with the blurb along the lines of ‘ looks set to make the 1st team spot his own ’ but I do n't think that ever happened . |
| 13 | Sabine makes the initial contact in a correspondence that flowers into an exchange of life stories and , eventually , hearts . |
| 14 | With all the crowding work , and a little pleasure , too , I would have written to you yesterday , only I partly feared to , because I had a proposal to make , which it would have been unseemly to make the apparent cause of my haste . |
| 15 | Even if one thinks one 's own company will not reduce costs further , it is dangerous to make the same assumption for one 's rivals . |
| 16 | Since any point on the diagonal makes the same intercepts on both scales any job whose line hits the diagonal has been completed . |
| 17 | Since any point on the diagonal makes the same intercepts on both scales any job whose line hits the diagonal has been completed . |
| 18 | SunSoft is supposed to make the distributed object system available to key software developers and end users in 90 days . |
| 19 | SunSoft is supposed to make the distributed object system available to key software developers and end users in 90 days . |
| 20 | Secondly , if you listen carefully you are more likely to make the right responses to what is being said to you . |
| 21 | Firms are less likely to make the right choice between alternative investment projects because inflation adds considerably to the uncertainty of expected future yields . |
| 22 | For the most part , however , the solution will lie more on the managers ' side than the shareholders ' : the managers need to be given incentives that make them less likely to make the colossal errors of the 1960s . |
| 23 | We 're not likely to make the same mistakes again . |
| 24 | The first meeting took place on the following Monday , 7th June , when the seven members present made the momentous choice of Hope as chairman . |
| 25 | It is obviously helpful to make the first flights in smooth weather , with a clear horizon . |
| 26 | The original motion was proposed by Frank Jacques as an Individual Member but the various amendments from the floor were sufficiently substantial to make the final version a fair representation of majority opinion among the voluntary members . |
| 27 | But many teachers feel this will be too late to make the public stop comparing them to the O-level system . |
| 28 | Current Matchman of the Year John Allerton has made a late surge up the tale to eighth position and although he is always a danger the Tri-Cast Barnsley 's star 's run may be just too late to make the very top . |
| 29 | In extreme cases the project may fail to reach completion or reach it too late to make the desired impact on the market . |
| 30 | It is important to make the correct diagnosis , for fungal treatments are unlikely to be of much use against bacteria and vice versa . |