Example sentences of "[to-vb] make [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only takes a little imagination to turn the Cam pit into a nature reserve and if it was possible to lay out a few paths making nature trails etc. the future of the Great Pit that Rugby Cement Works are now engaged in could in years to come make an ideal game reserve and possible " marina " with a link to the river . |
| 2 | He studied again the letter he had found in the wallet , then got to work making a careful copy of it . |
| 3 | Our comprehensive gear guide tells you all you need to know to make the right choice |
| 4 | I used to record the bass , rhythm guitar and drums on three tracks and then bounce them down on to one ; then I 'd do two more guitar tracks to try to make a richer texture , then I 'd do one more main overdub on guitar , and finally two vocal tracks . |
| 5 | I understand the intention — of wanting to try to make a conciliatory gesture — but this could be the thin end of a very dangerous wedge . |
| 6 | She had lied to him because she wished to evade the unpleasant truth of her life as a rich heiress , to try to make a new life free of old ties and old mistakes , where she would be loved as McAllister , who had nothing . |
| 7 | Finally , while Eisenhower indicated that he would be more co-operative with a new prime minister , many Conservatives had ample reasons of their own to try to make a fresh start . |
| 8 | But it is perhaps better not to try to make a bizarre idea for a murder the seed in your mind for a book , though when you have devised your plot you should of course make the actual circumstances of the murder as attention-grabbing as possible . |
| 9 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 10 | We have two principles of political integrity : a legislative principle , which asks lawmakers to try to make the total set of laws morally coherent , and an adjudicative principle , which instructs that the law be seen as coherent in that way , so far as possible . |
| 11 | And what do you say , do you say , ‘ I do n't agree with what that man says , it 's a bad book , I do n't like it or I wo n't read it ’ , or do you say , ‘ it 's probably useful for me to try to make the imaginative judgment to see things the way he sees them , to see the way the world looks like from his point of view , and I may reject that , but at least one ought to have some tolerance and some understanding ’ , and it seems that that 's where the study of literature meets life . |
| 12 | For most point to point is a good day out … an afternoon of country sport … the competition is keen … the racing hard and winning isn ’ t the be all and end all … for some horses and riders though this game is the first hurdle … a fence they have to jump to make the big time |
| 13 | I note in particular the first meeting of the National Committee which I was glad to see made a good start . |
| 14 | Wee Mick ‘ Mick ’ Harris on drums and Deathmangle Robochef Sythnocomputer Mk IV , the evil little man who revolutionised Napalm Death and went on to help make the greatest record in the world ever ie ‘ Guts Of A Virgin ’ by Painkiller PLUS Justin out of Godflesh and ex-Napalm Death and Nick ‘ is obsessed with pain and death ’ Bullen . |
| 15 | Erm , why 's that like that , they do n't tell you how to correct it , so often , you know , you do n't , you do n't know how to avoid making the same mistake next time . |
| 16 | In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze ‘ so as to avoid making an invidious distinction ’ . |
| 17 | okay you find it hard you find it hard to do to make a special effort what is it you have to make a special effort to do ? |
| 18 | The sting in the tail of the AS/400 announcement ( IBM never knows when to leave well enough alone ) is that it is to start making a niggling handling charge for software upgrades . |
| 19 | The INDUCTION DAY will give you the information you need to start making an objective evaluation of your idea . |
| 20 | To create a Chebyshev filter , equation ( 12.22 ) shows that the poles of must be arranged to satisfy Making the helpful substitution so that the required condition ( 12.27 ) becomes or on equating real and imaginary parts Since can not be zero , and and it follows that the poles of are given by equation ( 12.28 ) subject to the two conditions where p is any integer ( positive or negative ) including zero , and Of course , the poles can also be obtained through similar substitution for rather than . |
| 21 | They had to die to make the future safe . |
| 22 | Past mistakes are , of course , bygone , but for the sake of the next generation , we can ill afford to continue making the same mistakes over again . |
| 23 | Øster wrote in the introduction to his paper that the publication of Gairdner 's article nearly 20 years earlier seemed to have made no significant impression on clinical practice . |
| 24 | Where there is a slight risk in the event of a swing , a pilot may be said to have made a simple error of judgement or taken an unnecessary risk . |
| 25 | The interchange of routes between operators complicates analysis , but operators in South Wales also appear to have made a net loss of some 12 per cent of mileage since 1939 . |
| 26 | But Prestel does seem to have made a convincing case for its role in educational computing . |
| 27 | Whereas a woman who dies before her husband is considered to have made a good death and her body is decked in a married woman 's finery , one who survives her husband is somehow always blamed for his death and must never put on finery again as a penance . |
| 28 | In summary then , the action project appears not to have made a great deal of difference to people 's receipt of other services , except that it has probably kept some sufferers away from day care and has increased home help hours for its own clients ( and probably allayed the need for home help among other clients ) . |
| 29 | Apple is said not to have made a final commitment to release the software , and the big question is where Apple sees the base of applications for it , but word is that if the go-ahead is given , the product could come to market before the end of the year . |
| 30 | Apple is said not to have made a final commitment to release the software , and the big question is where Apple sees the base of applications for it , but word is that if the go-ahead is given , the product could come to market before the end of the year . |