Example sentences of "[coord] make [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the union 's last strike on April 16 , Britain 's 11,000 mile rail network was brought to a standstill and nearly 100,000 London-bound East Anglian passengers were forced to either stay at home or make alternative arrangements to reach the capital . |
| 2 | Reverse engineer , disassemble , decompile , translate , transfer , modify or make any attempt to discover the source code of the Program . |
| 3 | Once again , no party except ours seems to have grasped this simple point or made any proposal to act on it . |
| 4 | Radicals from across London , Britain , and Europe began to pour into the college to observe , participate , or make unsuccessful attempts to take the struggle into the correct channels . |
| 5 | Inevitably they took out their frustrations on Ellie and ‘ Patsy ’ , as they had nick-named their youngest brother , leaving it to him to remember his sister 's bottle when the others had left her crying , or to make endless attempts to keep her amused . |
| 6 | He has not spoken to the child 's mother , Monika Kocanek , nor made any attempt to see the baby since her birth . |
| 7 | Mr Lundy also wanted DIY stores themselves to learn from the tragedy and make greater effort to emphasise the dangers to the public and so attempt to cut the eight thousand accidents involving supermarket trollies every year . |
| 8 | ‘ If the NIE shares offer a good premium , and I expect that they will , then people should be able to buy them , sell them quickly and make some money to buy into BT3 if they want . ’ |
| 9 | If there is no wool available to them , cats with an urge to re-create the pleasures of sucking at the maternal nipple have been known to suck their own fur , sometimes their feet and sometimes the tips of their tails ; or they occasionally develop a fixation on their owner 's hair and make repeated attempts to suck on that , if they are given half a chance . |
| 10 | SF incoherence has been adopted by mainstream writers — from Borges to Rushdie , Doris Lessing to Woody Allen — as literacy and literary competence has developed and spread , and readers are prepared to accept more incoherence in texts and make more effort to resolve meanings . |
| 11 | I assure you that we at Amnesty do take such questions seriously and make considerable efforts to avoid insensitive statements . |
| 12 | The two men just want to brew their traditional beers and make enough money to live on , but as things stand it 's becoming more and more difficult . |
| 13 | It is only through a combined approach that school will be enabled to deliver all their programmes of study and make enough time to do more . |
| 14 | He 'd come back and make another excuse to keep me hanging around . |
| 15 | Unaware that the papacy had lost much of its earlier counter-Reformation vigour and that relations between Rome and Paris were far from harmonious , many English Protestants remained convinced that their church was increasingly at risk from the growing ambition of Louis XIV , and made strenuous efforts to divert Charles and James from their pro-Catholic paths . |
| 16 | Common lawyers detested the right of benefit of clergy , and made strenuous efforts to legislate against the practice in the parliaments of 1512 and 1515 . |
| 17 | This joint initiative did not preclude individual mediation efforts by GCC member states : in 1985 Saudi Arabia promoted an exchange of foreign ministers ' visits with Iran and made other efforts to overcome the estrangement between the two countries resulting from the Eagle-Phantom air battle and Iran 's resentment of Saudi and other GCC support for Iraq . |
| 18 | Except in very small primary schools , head teachers , deputies and chairs of governors welcomed the increased management responsibility and made genuine efforts to manage resources more efficiently and effectively . |
| 19 | Coventry-born Painter , 21 , sensed trouble soon after the start and made repeated efforts to keep the headgear in place . |
| 20 | The union , notoriously moderate and bureaucratic , repudiated the strike and made several attempts to engineer a return to work ( including alleged collaboration with the employer ) . |
| 21 | They arranged guards through the night in case the boy was still hanging around and made another attempt to chase the horses off . |
| 22 | Peter has established all the necessary contacts and made preliminary negotiations to obtain these aircraft . |
| 23 | The coalition had regard to-the- mechanics of the single transferable vote and made some attempt to match the number of candidates nominated with the support which those candidates might expect to attract in each constituency . |
| 24 | The happiest results came when householders gave their evacuees time to settle in and made some attempt to understand their cultural differences . |
| 25 | For them it was enough that 1 , a Westerner from a God-forgotten , immoral country , believed and made some attempt to practise . |
| 26 | Wilson nodded and dried her tears yet again and made some effort to smile . |
| 27 | He criticized the latters ' unwillingness to meet the borrowing requirements of those developing countries undertaking economic reforms and making serious efforts to honour their commitments . |
| 28 | Identifying districts for the development of comprehensive local mental illness services and making firm plans to provide these and facilitate the closure of two large hospitals , and providing local inpatient facilities for severely mentally ill elderly people . |
| 29 | Why was it that British industrialists took advantage of rising labour productivity to reduce their labour force , rather than to develop new forms of production using more sophisticated techniques and making improved products to sell at home and abroad ? |
| 30 | Get to a situation where you 've had a caravan before and to make any money to pay , you 've then got to buy another caravan to subsidise that one and you seem to be it 's sort of |