Example sentences of "[subord] make [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Surely people have better things to do than make a great song and dance about missing a dinner party . ’ |
| 2 | In offices with E-mail systems a fax can be copied to hundreds of different destinations without having to do more than make a few entries on the key-board . |
| 3 | These fairly well made , attractive rugs possess an undoubted primitive charm ; but as they have yet to establish themselves in the Western market , one can do little more than make an educated guess as to their current prices and investment potential . |
| 4 | But here , under the thick turf roof and the stone walls which had weathered many a north Atlantic gale , we were secure from the driving rain , and the heaviest gusts of wind did little more than make the oil-lamp flicker in its hanger . |
| 5 | Dulles did more than make the customary recommendations that the policies of the colonial powers keep abreast of local political aspirations . |
| 6 | Rather than make a decisive choice , he played a double game . |
| 7 | It is , though , more overtly apparent when he attempts to limit the damage to the atmosphere of the conversation caused by McKendrick 's accusation of his insincerity when praising Stoke university : Rather than make a straightforward denial , Anderson tries to diffuse the tension with humour by playing on the literal sense of McKendrick 's accusation. his display of urbane wit brings about some laughter from McKendrick but it also elicits a sardonic comment which is a valid observation on Anderson 's character . |
| 8 | Seek professional advice if needs be , rather than make a valiant attempt yourself and then regret it . |
| 9 | There was no fairness on earth if someone who would appreciate it and work hard was kept out just because of a greedy , uncaring family who would prefer to forget the child of an unsuitable union rather than make a generous gesture and ensure that some right was done at the end of the day . |
| 10 | Rather than make the risky journey to Scone , James III was crowned in Kelso abbey near Roxburgh . |
| 11 | Gohlke tells a more subtle story than made the early headlines . |
| 12 | Many fans drift into and out of groups rather than making a gradual progress . |
| 13 | The emphasis is on reorganising to suit the sufferer 's own pattern of activity rather than making a radical change in a familiar landscape . |
| 14 | The all-important cost of £64 made the table cheaper than making a similar model from scratch , and the fence proved accurate enough for rebating and jointing . |
| 15 | Better that , she thought resignedly , than making a complete fool of herself . |
| 16 | ‘ I would prefer to see the medical charities emphasizing the large amount of research they sponsor into alternatives to the use of animals , rather than making a big fuss out of this ’ , says Michael Balls , chairman of the trustees of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments , and until recently professor of medical cell biology at the University of Nottingham . |
| 17 | Attempts to rescue and re-evaluate them are apt to be less rewarding than making a fresh start . |
| 18 | Only last month , my council applied for extra funding for another eight young people to be retained in the constituency rather than making the futile trek southwards . |
| 19 | In his review for Vanity Fair Pare Lorentz argued that all the minor characters in I am a Fugitive were caricatures and that the film had been spoilt by the director 's decision to make the fugitive a hero and to tell the story through him rather than making the actual prison system the central focus of the film . |
| 20 | The justices said that they did this , rather than making an interim care order , to ensure the bonding of the children with their mother for their long term benefit . |
| 21 | In the case of a simple penal code , acceptance of its punishment is the best action by the deviant given that the alternative is reimposition of the punishment path : punishment outputs are so chosen that it is better not to postpone the date of reversion to collusion than to make a short-term gain from deviating from the punishment path . |
| 22 | No , top hat and tails have no real use other than to make a nervous bridegroom look even more awkward so that everyone can enjoy his discomfort and , therefore , the wedding . |
| 23 | First , the long term investor ( the one , Manne suggests , we should be most keen to protect ) must actually be selling for reasons other than to make a quick profit . |
| 24 | However , in turbulent and windy conditions it is always better to play safe and land into wind in another field , rather than to make a downwind landing . |
| 25 | As it turned out , it seems to have been inspired by a desire to bolster government policy rather than to make an objective assessment of the state of trees . |
| 26 | The exclusion of fixed charges from section 245 arguably reflects the favouritism shown to secured creditors in English company law , although to make a secured charge subject to the claims of preferential creditors would obviously affect both the terms of credit and the amount of credit available , and this may justify the present position . |
| 27 | We shall not consider this topic here except to make the following point . |
| 28 | Any living individual , if made the identifiable subject of a defamatory attack , may take legal action . |
| 29 | The point effectively being made is that , if making a poor person better off by £1 via a redistributive transfer reduces the income of the rich person by more than £1 ( because of , say , the necessary administrative costs of the transfer and/or the disincentive effects to earn in the market-place ) , how much more than the £1 gain to the poor is an acceptable ‘ price ’ ? |
| 30 | ‘ You — ’ Then , as if making a supreme effort to block out any fury from his voice , he said , ‘ Yes , that is a condition of employment , but I wo n't hold you to it . |