Example sentences of "and make [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lundy also wanted DIY stores themselves to learn from the tragedy and make greater effort to emphasise the dangers to the public and so attempt to cut the eight thousand accidents involving supermarket trollies every year . |
| 2 | Party leadership was put in the hands of Rakovskii ( a Roumanian ) , who was instructed to make every effort to win over the support of the Ukrainian Left and make all concessions required to conciliate the Ukrainian peasantry . |
| 3 | A reverse takeover is one of the situations in which the board of the offeror company must , in accordance with Rule 3.2 , obtain competent independent advice on the offer and make that advice known to its shareholders ( see para 6.4.2 below ) . |
| 4 | ‘ If the NIE shares offer a good premium , and I expect that they will , then people should be able to buy them , sell them quickly and make some money to buy into BT3 if they want . ’ |
| 5 | And make some tiptoe cringing steps . |
| 6 | If there is no wool available to them , cats with an urge to re-create the pleasures of sucking at the maternal nipple have been known to suck their own fur , sometimes their feet and sometimes the tips of their tails ; or they occasionally develop a fixation on their owner 's hair and make repeated attempts to suck on that , if they are given half a chance . |
| 7 | SF incoherence has been adopted by mainstream writers — from Borges to Rushdie , Doris Lessing to Woody Allen — as literacy and literary competence has developed and spread , and readers are prepared to accept more incoherence in texts and make more effort to resolve meanings . |
| 8 | I assure you that we at Amnesty do take such questions seriously and make considerable efforts to avoid insensitive statements . |
| 9 | In the afternoon they would don chamois gloves and make aimless ritual drives into the Green Belt , in-laws glumly ensconced in the back-seat , stopping at the side of an arterial road to circulate solemnly a vacuum flask . |
| 10 | The two men just want to brew their traditional beers and make enough money to live on , but as things stand it 's becoming more and more difficult . |
| 11 | It is only through a combined approach that school will be enabled to deliver all their programmes of study and make enough time to do more . |
| 12 | Rent a lightweight FERGUSON CAMCORDER from Leisure Centre and make special days last forever . |
| 13 | Since outcome is determined partly during pregnancy , it is logical to expect pregnant women to ask more questions , expect answers and make informed decisions related to their lifestyle . |
| 14 | He 'd come back and make another excuse to keep me hanging around . |
| 15 | She relieved him of it , and made five bullets count , dropping Minutemen and Daughters where they stood . |
| 16 | They had executed him and his family , and made sure Shallot paid the price . |
| 17 | Unaware that the papacy had lost much of its earlier counter-Reformation vigour and that relations between Rome and Paris were far from harmonious , many English Protestants remained convinced that their church was increasingly at risk from the growing ambition of Louis XIV , and made strenuous efforts to divert Charles and James from their pro-Catholic paths . |
| 18 | Common lawyers detested the right of benefit of clergy , and made strenuous efforts to legislate against the practice in the parliaments of 1512 and 1515 . |
| 19 | Ceramic materials may take over the role of cobalt in magnets , a move stimulated by the political upheavals in Zaire in 1978 , which forced up the price of the metal and made many manufacturers look for substitutes . |
| 20 | This joint initiative did not preclude individual mediation efforts by GCC member states : in 1985 Saudi Arabia promoted an exchange of foreign ministers ' visits with Iran and made other efforts to overcome the estrangement between the two countries resulting from the Eagle-Phantom air battle and Iran 's resentment of Saudi and other GCC support for Iraq . |
| 21 | Except in very small primary schools , head teachers , deputies and chairs of governors welcomed the increased management responsibility and made genuine efforts to manage resources more efficiently and effectively . |
| 22 | Coventry-born Painter , 21 , sensed trouble soon after the start and made repeated efforts to keep the headgear in place . |
| 23 | The union , notoriously moderate and bureaucratic , repudiated the strike and made several attempts to engineer a return to work ( including alleged collaboration with the employer ) . |
| 24 | They arranged guards through the night in case the boy was still hanging around and made another attempt to chase the horses off . |
| 25 | But she coupled her playwriting and stories with a serious interest in anthropology , and made numerous field trips to the Caribbean . |
| 26 | This teaching appealed to many ordinary people because it was simple to understand and made Christian obedience appear much easier than it really was . |
| 27 | Peter has established all the necessary contacts and made preliminary negotiations to obtain these aircraft . |
| 28 | The coalition had regard to-the- mechanics of the single transferable vote and made some attempt to match the number of candidates nominated with the support which those candidates might expect to attract in each constituency . |
| 29 | The happiest results came when householders gave their evacuees time to settle in and made some attempt to understand their cultural differences . |
| 30 | For them it was enough that 1 , a Westerner from a God-forgotten , immoral country , believed and made some attempt to practise . |