Example sentences of "make [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many are being refitted with the same smart new decor which will make them easier to spot on the high street . |
| 2 | ‘ It should make them even more careful about their monitoring , ’ Abrahams says . |
| 3 | They are aware of the fraud , and my hon. Friends and I will make them even more aware of it . |
| 4 | ‘ We feel it is only further embittering loyalist paramilitaries and will make them even more hard-line . |
| 5 | Well it 's just that for that , I mean that 's all , it 's all relative for those conditions there are , there is too much labour on the land , you erm , if you could increase agricultural productivity in a way that would displace labour and that 's very difficult to do , well you can , you can do it er most , most capital is labour displacing but not all , not all capital , erm so you could , whereas I see , I see what you are saying is that , why well the you could g you could , you could do it right even though that there are a lot of people on the land er you could still make them wholly productive by giving them more capital that was n't labour that was n't labour displacing , like you give them better seeds for example , like that would increase the productivity of the land , there would n't be so much you know population pressure on the land er because everybody would have enough to eat and we could er actually sell something , right . |
| 6 | After they had eaten , her mother let Caro make them both a cup of tea . |
| 7 | He also designed a bed that could be raised up and down and told Pat to go to the patent office with the plan which would make them both a fortune . |
| 8 | Cover the bloom with a polythene bag — or better , if you can make them up , fine muslin bags that will let the air in but keep the insects out . |
| 9 | And we did n't make them up . |
| 10 | I 've no pictures in my head to describe , ca n't make them up . |
| 11 | If you chop glac cherries you can make them up |
| 12 | You can make them up you me or or |
| 13 | In the end , they argued , this would make them no longer viable and a ripe candidate for takeover by another district . |
| 14 | It may not make them popular , but it will usually make them right . |
| 15 | However , despite some change in secondary selection , it remains the case , most remarkably , that though wartime and free education made the arguments of economy , fairness and impartiality more applicable they did not make them universally acceptable . |
| 16 | When considering the regulations for set-aside , which is a very valuable tool in the present negotiations , will the Minister make them rather more positive by enabling farmers who have land set aside — especially , perhaps , for one year — to use the year to clean the land rather than merely to cut it ? |
| 17 | And they had a big tt gas engine there with a great big flywheel and you can see these machines today , they did n't make them round , they used to make them flat . |
| 18 | Mud is today rejected because of the inegalitarian social plan of most developing nations and because it does not allow housing professionals any control over the housing process , and indeed would make them largely irrelevant . |
| 19 | As in the case of the sauropod dinosaurs they seem to have got bigger and bigger during the Cretaceous — some of these later pterosaurs are supposed to have had wing spans exceeding lo metres , which would make them almost comparable to a man-made glider . |
| 20 | This will make them less decisive and may inhibit them from giving orders or taking charge of the situation . |
| 21 | ‘ Just because they are small does not make them less precious . |
| 22 | That there is a certain amount of confusion and inconsistency in the arguments does not make them less to be feared . |
| 23 | Never evade their letters or telephone calls , it will only make them less amenable to your predicament . |
| 24 | Does this make them less right-on ? |
| 25 | But , insurers point out , this may make them less able to compete against other financial institutions . |
| 26 | The fewer susceptible people in urban areas would reflect the prior sporadic exposure to the widespread relevant agent , which would make them less vulnerable to an epidemic caused by new and sudden population mixing . |
| 27 | On some models you can adjust the distance that the blades will open and this can make them less tiring to use for a prolonged period . |
| 28 | We are aware that serial killers and the like are merely expressing themselves , working out their various hang-ups and generally freeing themselves from those inhibitions which might , if suppressed , make them less complete human beings . |
| 29 | Supermarket trolleys have to be fairly cheap and brakes would make them less economical to produce . |
| 30 | These emerged as the movement represented by the Enlightenment itself became more self-critical and less brashly confident in its own rationalism ; but that does not make them any the less significant or challenging for theology . |