Example sentences of "[vb base] to make [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are five of them , all small , all looking 12 , all crashing around the stage of the Camden Palace ( an unlikely , and certainly untypical , place to make a British debut ) like possessed battling tops . |
| 2 | The efforts of those like Gosse and Agassiz to make a definite theory out of the doctrine of Creation helped to show the value of an alternative approach ; evolution might be made scientific . |
| 3 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |
| 4 | An acquaintance who is well-informed as to the intentions of the Liberals writes to me that they propose to make a big plan of public works the centre of their election programme . |
| 5 | By sacrifice and submission and by the Grace of God I mean to become a truly serious person , fit to make a new beginning and become a Catholic and a proper wife to you . |
| 6 | ‘ But at some point I will need to sit down and figure out if I want to make a real career shift into another area , such as politics . |
| 7 | Sometime I will need to figure out if I want to make a real career shift — such as politics . |
| 8 | ‘ No , I just want to make a private call . |
| 9 | If you want to make a different-sized tablecloth , your border will probably end at a different part of the plaid pattern . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've got a visitor coming at six o'clock and I want to make a good impression on him — it 's twenty to four already . ’ |
| 11 | But if you want to make a good impression on examiners , prospective employers or clients , the mastery of our unreasonable orthography is a necessity . |
| 12 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
| 13 | Well you do know th th that you 're saying that they want to make a particular point strongly and er that that might involve erm an elephant in of bad taste in order to make it striking and to make people look at it and think about it . |
| 14 | And we especially want to hear from youngsters who want to make a short piece of film themselves . |
| 15 | If you want to make a wooden staircase leading from the patio to the garden , it is made in the same way as an indoor staircase , expect that the timber used is much thicker . |
| 16 | It 's possible for a really thick outdoor sweater or jacket , but beware if you want to make a full length coat ! |
| 17 | That 's all I ever wanted to do in boxing after I 'd learned the craft and now I want to make a little bit more ’ . |
| 18 | If you want to make a quick pound or two , or if you 'd welcome a meal of freshly caught fish , try selling or bartering your discoveries when the next groups of fishermen gather . |
| 19 | A record-review button — a great time and battery saver when you want to make a quick check-replay of a shot on location . |
| 20 | so you 're saying you want to make a different exam paper for Scotland |
| 21 | This might have coloured your attitude to the work , and be relevant when you want to make a fresh start : |
| 22 | They want to make a fresh start — to forget the night their lives almost ended in a ball of flames . |
| 23 | However , this presumption can be rebutted in particular cases where it can be shown that , even in a business situation , the parties do not in fact want to make an enforceable contract . |
| 24 | In this type of games you want to make an early impact , but we allowed Chelsea to dominate until they scored ’ . |
| 25 | Want to make an early start tomorrow . ’ |
| 26 | We expect plenty of interest from those who want to make an unforgettable gift to their partners . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Obviously , anyone who has been oppressed for 40 years will have among their number people who want to make the complete lunge towards a so-called free market utopia . |
| 28 | This time we want to make the 1st division . |
| 29 | I merely want to make the limited point that many of these students — who may be highly intelligent — do not have the existing familiarity with poetry , not to mention the general knowledge and cultural literacy , that would enable them to engage as equals in genuinely critical discussion . |
| 30 | But as I say I do n't necessarily want to get involved in too much of the detail of the statistics of it , I simply want to make the overall point that we 've been told that there are three thousand unemployed . |