Example sentences of "[adv] make [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 . |
| 2 | Virgin duly made the appropriate rerelease but nothing happened . |
| 3 | It was already chaotically busy with officials and administrators knitting together the many responsibilities which would eventually make a successful tournament . |
| 4 | Now , if you make a cup very deep and turn the sides over , you eventually make a lensless pinhole camera . |
| 5 | People only rarely make a positive choice , weighing up one credit arrangement against another . |
| 6 | Here at the scene of the crime he only made a preliminary examination . |
| 7 | Postponing the necessary adjustment had , however , only made the ultimate adjustment harder , and the policy dilemmas sharper . |
| 8 | This time they killed Charlie 's father , which was a silly mistake because it only made the young fool sign up to fight the lot of them on his own . |
| 9 | That he himself happened to be a congenital cad only made the whole thing more difficult , not easier . |
| 10 | The pelagic zone also includes a few creatures that are land-based , but none the less make a significant contribution to the marine ecology : birds such as the puffins , gannets , boobies , auks , terns and penguins ; the pinniped carnivores — seals , sea-lions , fur seals , and walruses ; other carnivores — the sea-otter and the polar bear ; reptiles such as some marine crocodiles and the marine , herbivorous iguana of the Galapagos Islands . |
| 11 | As Smith points out , ‘ Conditions of conduciveness merely make the hostile outburst possible . |
| 12 | When the children help , they sometimes suggest a different way of arranging things and even a small alteration can suddenly make a forgotten toy more popular . |
| 13 | Here , instinctual need provides the impetus for intelligent action , and an instinctual drive which would merely make a hungry dog bark at a suspended bone makes a hungry primate build , climb and reach with a tool . |
| 14 | Old phone books apparently make an ideal alternative to straw , and they 're far cheaper . |
| 15 | It would perhaps make a poignant epitaph to Eliot 's creative career that he should return to the literary associations and memories of his youth in America — the " Victorian American " who even in his rebellion against that inheritance marked himself as its true heir . |
| 16 | You will only make a powerful enemy . |
| 17 | Non-executive directors can only make a limited contribution to a company given that they have little knowledge of its day-to-day working . ’ |
| 18 | If a bird pecks at these it will probably only make a small tear in the edge of the wing and the butterfly may then escape . |
| 19 | ‘ It has already been said that the Duchess of York will only make a fleeting visit with princesses Beatrice and Eugenie so it looks like that the two royal outlaws will now just be bringing the children to tea . ’ |
| 20 | She could only make a calculated guess ; sheer horror at coming face to face with a former lover when the present one stood stiffly beside him . |
| 21 | Wills were normally made shortly before death , as many a shaky signature can testify ; some people left it so late that they could only make an oral statement ( or nuncupative will ) , which was written down and sworn to by witnesses . |
| 22 | Crosier ( 1975 ) found fifty definitions so we had better make an early stab at identifying the notion of marketing that is being applied in this book . |
| 23 | It is also interesting to note that endorphins are released when acupuncture is practised and perhaps make a significant contribution to the therapeutic effects which may be achieved . |
| 24 | As far as BCCI is concerned , it is understood that a very high proportion of the loans made by BCCI have some sort of deposit associated , and this will obviously make a substantial difference to the amount which can be claimed on behalf of BCCI . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm so glad — because you 'd obviously make a marvellous mother , ’ she said enthusiastically . |
| 26 | What had to be decided was whether 2.63 miles of the extended six-lane M3 would be tunnelled through the downland chalk or just cut straight through in a deep , wide trench which would obviously make an irreparable mess of the down . |
| 27 | By chastising a horse , we only make a tense situation worse . |
| 28 | Only make the right wing strong ’ ) , and his successor as Chief of Staff , General Helmuth von Moltke , while broadly adopting Schlieffen 's plan , had already fatally modified it through timidity . |
| 29 | The Pakistanis have been incensed all summer by mutterings that they only make the old ball swing so violently by tampering with it . |
| 30 | I obviously made a huge mistake in thinking that we could ever learn to tolerate one another . |