Example sentences of "make [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Though you did make rather a big dent in my dignity . |
| 2 | But it would make rather a lovely weekend home . ’ |
| 3 | From this month on , junkies need make only a telephone call to exchange their used , possibly-AIDS bearing , needles for new clean ones , delivered free of charge . |
| 4 | But it will make only a marginal difference to the stagnant housing market . |
| 5 | But specialist services can make only a fairly modest contribution to an overall plan for services in a multiracial society unless mainstream services are also radically overhauled in those areas with substantial ethnic populations . |
| 6 | I know that I shall make only a small start before Christmas , so perhaps I can take the opportunity afforded by this Newsletter to wish you all a very happy Christmas and a good New Year . |
| 7 | ‘ Shush , Mamma , ’ Rosa had said , and then Sabina had come in again with the bird — it would make only a bite to eat . |
| 8 | This is because the profit function before the change must have been horizontal at the optimum , so a small change in the optimum price will make only a marginal difference to the firms ' profits . |
| 9 | Observers commented that the modifications would make only a token difference to the King 's real power . |
| 10 | But his following definitions of the value of reading are close to my own convictions : ‘ reading , as we ought to teach it , can make not a good person , but a subtle , questioning one , always with the possibility of corruption yet richer and more enriching . ’ |
| 11 | Can I make just a suggestion ? |
| 12 | However , it does not make just a single prediction for the universe . |
| 13 | She could make just a small detour … |
| 14 | She could make up a story , say she suffered temporary amnesia , or that she was knocked unconscious by thieves and all her money was gone , but she doubted she could make it sound believable . |
| 15 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 16 | This way , you can make up a ‘ hit list ’ of personnel within companies to whom you want to send your tape . |
| 17 | ‘ But why in hell should the police make up a story about an accident ? ’ |
| 18 | But these are isolated groups which do not make up a force . ’ |
| 19 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 20 | I have quoted this passage in full , not because I think it is particularly inspired or even well-written , but because it is the nearest attempt I have come across to suggest some of the subjective , hidden meanings that might well make up a performer 's luggage when he expresses himself on stage . |
| 21 | You could make up a whole story . |
| 22 | Ever wish you could make up a degree course to suit your own needs ? |
| 23 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 24 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 25 | Perhaps we could make up a party . |
| 26 | If there are enough of you , you can make up a more formal self-help group . |
| 27 | You can also make up a book of spells and write spells on a piece of paper , or even a menu for witches ' stew . |
| 28 | They do make up a minor genre : the expedition into Darkest Britain , as trekked by George Orwell and a trickle of disciples up to , and including , the Belfast writer and photographer team of Robert McLiam Wilson and Donovan Wylie , who publish The Dispossessed ( Picador ) this week . |
| 29 | The NCT sessions encouraged everyone to ask ‘ daft ’ questions — the sort that do not seem daft if you do not know the answers — like how do I make up a nappy , how many sterilising tablets do I use for the bottles and what should we buy before the baby is born ? |
| 30 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |