Example sentences of "[vb pp] to make the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile tomorrow another British convoy again of about a hundred and eighty women and children is expected to make the long hot journey from Kuwait to Baghdad . |
| 2 | The cigarette companies used this to justify tobacco advertising : they have maintained that , to reduce average tar yields , new brands will have to be introduced ( despite the fact that substantial changes have already been made to existing brands by simply altering their yields ) and advertising will be needed to make the public aware of these new brands . |
| 3 | But quite apart from these subsidiary deficiencies , it is clear that Euripides ' rejection of the Dionysiac was bound to make the true tragic effect unattainable . |
| 4 | Items in angle brackets are not in the Portuguese text — they are inserted to make the back-translation readable . |
| 5 | MY SON is a teacher and I 've seen how hard he has worked to make the new national curriculum a success in his classroom . |
| 6 | The greater this distance , the longer the time taken to make the final uncovered dash ( T ) , and so a duck can afford to lower its peeking rate . |
| 7 | Anselm was determined to make the clearest possible break with past practice : henceforth no priest or deacon was to be allowed , on any pretext whatsoever , to have a wife and continue to carry out his duties , and he had prepared an elaborate series of provisional arrangements to cope with the shortage of qualified priests under the new regulations . |
| 8 | In 1978 the act was amended to make the earliest mandatory retirement age 70 and to eliminate it entirely for federal employees . |
| 9 | In free fall the coordinates can be chosen to make the metric diagonal , in which case reduces to and . |
| 10 | Otherwise , a complete bulk transfer will be required to make the two consistent again . |
| 11 | Despite being outnumbered , unaware of the enemy 's dispositions and ignorant of the terrain , Hamilton was ordered to make the first British landings on 25 April at the southern tip of the peninsula near Cape Helles , while Anzac troops went ashore about 24km/15mls farther up the Aegean coast near Gaba Tepe . |