Example sentences of "and [verb] to make the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This part of the grape 's flesh produces the richest juice in terms of sugar , acids and trace elements , and goes to make the highest quality Champagnes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , it was something like a castle , and he 'ad tons of servants and a butler as well , and a sister who was secretly a witch and tried to make the poor girl worship Satan , but — ’ |
| 4 | That low , dishonest decade was when we broke free of our parents , banished the Fifties , discovered that we 'd missed the Sixties , and tried to make the best of it with an orgy of revolting clothes , tasteless music and formless anomie . |
| 5 | The girl threw caution to the wind and tried to make the most of every minute via sex , drink , numerous abortions , and late-night revels . |
| 6 | I think I 'm improving and hope to make the top 50 , or even top 20 . |
| 7 | I think we 've all gradually come to terms with Jennifer 's condition and learnt to make the best of it … but … ’ she stared at her telephone as it suddenly rang , her thoughts obviously far away ‘ … but I do n't think I 'll ever forgive David Markham for the way he treated her , ’ she said at last as she stretched out her hand to answer the phone . |
| 8 | In a key breakthrough , the Green Party took their first County seat in the region and pledged to make the Green voice heard . |
| 9 | Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan says and I might say so , slightly mischievously , well after all he 's going to appoint the appointers and going to make the short list , short list for the Right My Right Honourable Friend to appoint , but of course somebody 's got to appoint the appointers and er that would be done by the by my Right Honourable Friend , but that does n't mean to say for goodness sake that they 're in his pocket . |
| 10 | You can accept this suggestion and opt to make the two objects keep the alignment . |
| 11 | Think positively and try to make the most of your appearance so that you feel your absolute best all day . |
| 12 | The real limitation was time ; many students , although they enjoyed the projects , felt the pressure of looming final examinations and said that they were unable to complete their project to their own satisfaction and had to make the best of a bad job in order to work at other , equally pressing , aspects of the course . |
| 13 | Labour was in government and had to make the best of it , but the party was with a less numerous support bloc than even the Selsdon Heath of 1970 . |
| 14 | In addition the fall in energy costs benefit industries and economic output and help to make the Japanese current account surplus even larger . |
| 15 | This was a glorious end to the season for Gregarians , revelling in the April sunshine and determined to make the most of their final appearance . |
| 16 | On the agency side , account executives rarely have the time or the depth of market research know-how and experience to make the most of the interpretation of market research . |
| 17 | But whether Rider Haggard wanted to move his mysterious veiled woman somewhat further from the realm of allegory near which she certainly appeared to reside in She and Ayesha , or whether he was merely exercising the husbandry of a writer who had created in Quatermain a remarkably useful narrator and wanted to make the fullest use of him , the fact remains that the ‘ She ’ of She and Allan is more shrewdly realised as a woman than in the two preceding books , even if her self- centred mysticism is still as grandiose and woolly as it was . |
| 18 | Fascinating to watch : how she smoothed down the shard of the totem to make it a circle , to flatten it out ; how she trimmed and chipped to make the natural lines flow ; how she scored out the eyes , the mouth ; how she touched colour with her fingers to emphasize the woman in the land , in the mask ; how the dead wood began to live and breathe . |
| 19 | Surely we can not ; we must accept what we have as data and work to make the best of what we have , our environment and our circumstances . |
| 20 | And work to make the top deck of the National Car Park in East Street , Darlington , waterproof has also been branded a failure . |