Example sentences of "make the good " in BNC.

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1 The more money they make the better for them .
2 What is the use of going to open beaches when we must return to segregated residential areas and schools and suffer under the laws that make the best medical treatment the prerogative of the whites only in our country ?
3 Just make the best decision you possibly can in the light of the information contained in Chapter 4 .
4 Perkin , on her other side , murmured something to get her attention and for a while I watched Tremayne make the best of our table having been graced by the sponsor 's wife , a gushing froth of a lady in unbecoming lemon .
5 The first rule of surviving a disaster , I had written , was to accept that it had happened and make the best of what was left .
6 Most of the brains of the organisation , or those academics who were able to pull Establishment strings and make the best of college connections , were billeted fairly comfortably near B.P. or had private transport , and were therefore able to take part in the social life that was organised for the community .
7 ‘ Divide into groups of four and make the best paper aeroplane ’ .
8 And Elizabeth could , like the Macleans , make the best she could of it .
9 In the well-drained driest parts , the heavy clay loams make the best arable land ; in the wetter parts these clays are better kept in grass , and the sandy loams best for ploughing .
10 You 've got to take what you can in this world and make the best of it .
11 It may be comforting if you can acknowledge that in any moment you make the best choices you are able to in the situations in which you find yourself .
12 We have got , each one of us , to take our place as we find it in this world and make the best of it , and pull together with the others around us …
13 You should ask yourself whether you make the best of what you have , however little .
14 ‘ There is some irony in the fact that helping other companies make the best use of their existing premises — by installing mezzanine floors or space-saving racking systems — has meant that we have had to move to new premises to cope with the workload , ’ said Mr. Jeary .
15 The results reveal little departure from the traditional view that applicants from large , old-fashioned institutions make the best employees , although UMIST and Loughborough are ranked highly , largely because of their more vocational courses .
16 They make the best kinds of characters .
17 whilst in some respects they are considered sinful and falling short of the pattern for our life as revealed in the Scripture , make the best moral sense of a situation which is , of itself , flawed .
18 The second is any child under the age of about five , who is unlikely to be able to concentrate for the necessary time — although it must be said that older children probably make the best subjects of all , as they are still at the stage where their imagination is in good working order and they have not become weighed down by the need to earn a living or the problems of bringing up a family .
19 Thankfully , this lot 's obvious love of latter-day long-hairs like Mudhoney and Monster Magnet and their ear for a tune make the best bits of ‘ Theatres Of Gnomes ’ sound almost wonderful .
20 He contrasts the moral ideas of humanity with those of the deity , who is described in terms reminiscent of Voltaire : ‘ Why have we sympathies that make the best of us so afraid of inflicting pain and sorrow , which yet we see dealt about so lavishly by the supreme governor ? ’
21 And confident people make the best bets . ’
22 However , if circumstances dictate using the post then make the best of it by :
23 They make the best kinds of characters .
24 McDonald outlines it thus : ‘ A : find the best artists you can ; B : keep them in a creative mood so that they make the best records they can , and C : maximise the sales of the records everywhere without turning it into a real form of drudgery for them . ’
25 You 're a marvellous worker ; and what 's more , you make the best currant buns I 've ever tasted .
26 My message is not that teachers ought to quit complaining and make the best of a bad job .
27 While other options were being carried out , and before the text was ready to receive entries for completely new words and meanings , it might well be desirable to begin to assemble these new entries and hold them ready in advance , so as to speed production and make the best use of the system 's storage capacity .
28 In the same way they learn the trees that are good for firewood or building , for supporting the yams or propping the bananas , those that resist white ants or make the best bee-hives , stools or grain mortars and pestles .
29 This has sometimes been justified on security grounds but often the argument has been that disclosure is not in the public interest , that " secrecy is at all times the condition in which the best men make the best decisions . "
30 Much of the writing that followed the Act has borne this ‘ make the best of it ’ message , alongside attempts to muster the collective will to the task ahead :
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