Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to make a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the search for such pacts or agreements , the opposition parties will necessarily be drawn closer together , and the campaign for tactical voting will gather force and develop a presence that will make it better placed to make a major impact in the next election . |
| 2 | What did you expect to gain from coming here , Fran — that I might suddenly decide to make a full confession ? ’ |
| 3 | No politician , whether a great magnate intent on retaining a traditional dominance in his region , a minister of the crown seeking favourable returns for his administration , or a landowner merely wishing to make a good figure in his own county , could manage without access to patronage with which to reward his friends ' loyalty by helping them in their times of need . |
| 4 | In July 1971 the Chairman of the CDP wrote to three polytechnic directors who were apparently intending to make a direct approach to Mrs Thatcher , as Secretary of State , ‘ in relation to the possible granting of degree awarding powers to your polytechnic ’ : individual initiatives , he considered , were premature . |
| 5 | This means that there will be no restriction on the number of places available and I am hoping that as many parents as possible will come and so help to make a real occasion of it . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's only trying to make a great deal of money , ’ said Constance . |
| 7 | Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface . |
| 8 | The genuine home-made goods come in boxes with shoddy pictures of their blemished stars , who generally tend to make a one-time appearance on the store racks . |
| 9 | ‘ No , I just want to make a private call . |
| 10 | I just want to make a few pennies by selling some horseflesh . |
| 11 | Second , if leadership in God 's economy is not given on a basis of superiority then there is no reason to assume that the husband is the best equipped to make a given decision . |
| 12 | Would you just like to make a brief statement of clarification . |
| 13 | I was just going to make a quick comment if I may on Oxfam , because I noticed that they 're down for the street collections and for the flag day , now next year 's their fiftieth anniversary , so I think it 's quite appropriate next year , but I do , my own view is , that we will get , we ought to get one comprehensive list of all these organisations , for both the street collections and the flag days , with an indication in the column of whether it 's flag day they 've gone for or a street collection , so that we can identify that sort of situation . |
| 14 | The US , which is responsible for 23 per cent of world CO 2 , against 13 per cent from the EC , has already refused to make a similar policy commitment . |
| 15 | Mr Mayor , I do feel after councillor er er er speech I just have to make a little comment erm people in my ward . |
| 16 | and then I would say well you know I just need to make a few notes |
| 17 | However the agency says they 'd always intended to make a radical redistribution of wealth between fathers and their first families . |
| 18 | The controversy over ordinary and honours degree pathways was to smoulder between CASS and CST , and the CASS pressure for the ending of the policy was countered consistently by CST with the argument that in science and technology it was appropriate to have two types of course , and that in general it considered students with lower abilities and attainments were more suitably educated ‘ in courses specially designed to make a different intellectual demand ’ . |
| 19 | I have to say that in no way will this option be better than the colour changer , because for Norwegian jacquard , you will still have to make a semi-automatic colour change with the jacquard claw every two rows and this is slower . |
| 20 | Only Ron Howard could still manage to make a western like Far And Away , a hallucinatory fantasy of American origins in which native Americans look on indulgently as a bunch of white men carve up their land . |
| 21 | Before he concentrated on the actual scene of the crime , Dalgliesh always liked to make a cursory survey of the surroundings to orientate himself , and , as it were , to set the scene of murder . |
| 22 | When a subject sought from the king some licence or privilege within the forest , the Justice was usually ordered to make a preliminary inquiry ad quod damnum — that is , to inquire by means of a local jury as to the extent of the loss which the Crown would suffer if the grant were made . |
| 23 | It was a mixed night for the Liberal Democrats , who also failed to make a significant breakthrough . |
| 24 | If it is someone associated with your client in the workplace , such as a foreman , then you will probably want to make a tactful approach through a fellow worker or a trade union official . |
| 25 | Exxon also agreed to make a further payment of up to $100,000,000 if further damage from the oil slick was discovered in the five years after this period ( 2002-2006 ) . |
| 26 | And the chairman also has to make a big speech on the first day . |
| 27 | There were at least a dozen big-wave specialists on the North Shore who , if the Eddie Aikau were actually to be held , could reasonably expect to make a small fortune . |
| 28 | Only with incredible luck , against all the odds , could he reasonably hope to make a safe exit from Russian soil and reach safe ground from which the Americans might be able to extricate him in one piece . |
| 29 | ‘ Neither of us are idiots and Benn must realise that the only way to make the really big money we are talking about is to meet each other here , when we are both scheduled to make a mandatory defence next September . |
| 30 | After leaving Devon the family had gone to Lancashire for work in the mills there and later started to make a new life for themselves in South Africa . |