Example sentences of "make [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He accepts as-if legal rights in that spirit and for reasons of strategy will make mostly the same decisions a conventionalist would make when statutes are plain or precedents crisp and decisive . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ Fritz went red , which , Erika thought , made rather a nice change from her own blushing , and looked at his shoes . |
| 3 | Aunt Janice was clothed ( shirt and jeans ) , which made rather a refreshing change , and standing in the hallway . |
| 4 | Er Mr Deputy Speaker it 's also quite important that I make clear the Labour party 's position in respect to the article which calls for uniform electoral procedures to be set up for elections to the European parliament . |
| 5 | ‘ Though you did make rather a big dent in my dignity . |
| 6 | But it would make rather a lovely weekend home . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Observers commented that the modifications would make only a token difference to the King 's real power . |
| 9 | But it will make only a marginal difference to the stagnant housing market . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There is , however , no clear one-to-one relationship between discourse type and sender and receiver , and for many words denoting discourse type ( song , for example , or article ) we can make only the vaguest connections . |
| 12 | As I have suggested , up to a generation ago a common form of life united sixth-form and university English , regardless of whether their orientation was ‘ Oxford ’ or ‘ Cambridge ’ , since the latter made much the same assumptions about literacy and competence as the former . |
| 13 | The opposition leader , Mr Vaclav Havel , made much the same point about the new Prime Minister by stating that he had failed to attract much attention over two years in government office . |
| 14 | For example , an HP buyer could make much the same sort of claim against his finance company over faulty goods as the Sale of Goods Act would have allowed against a shop . |
| 15 | Although the G-7 final communiqué made only a passing reference to " developments in the Soviet Union " , it was understood that a decision to shelve the issue of Soviet participation in the IMF and World Bank [ see p. 37730 ] had been prompted by widespread condemnation of recent Soviet attacks on nationalists in Latvia and Lithuania [ see pp. 37944-45 ] . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the party made only a limited concession ; Home Rule 's suspension was real , and every attempt to implement it in wartime provoked sufficient Unionist outrage to stop it . |
| 17 | Until late in the eighteenth century Methodism made only a limited advance . |
| 18 | Remembering the other woman 's private income , Loretta made only a faint protest . |
| 19 | The eventual UN resolution passed on Oct. 29 , however , made only a veiled reference to the war crimes issue , in calling for information on breaches of international law . |
| 20 | Swedish international Anders Limpar made only a brief substitute 's appearance in that victory at Selhurst Park , but his popularity was underlined by the reception he was given by Arsenal fans at Selhurst Park . |
| 21 | He made only a brief speech to the meeting , described by Bridgeman to Davidson ( who was in the Argentine ) as ‘ a good opening — plain and dignified — and with fewer mannerisms than have recently been apparent , and no apparent nervousness ’ . |
| 22 | That may be so , but the prince was ousted from power by the Lon Nol coup back in 1970 , and made only a brief comeback as a Khmer Rouge figurehead in 1976 . |
| 23 | They made only a short distance in the remainder of that day , for Miss Fergusson demanded frequent rests . |
| 24 | It proved very successful in terms of the increase in exports [ Worswick and Ady , 1952 ] , though new research is beginning to suggest that official efforts ( largely through the agency of the Board of Trade ) made only a marginal contribution as compared with general forces leading to an expansion of international trade . |
| 25 | By and large , the cached IDE host adaptor made only a marginal difference to my benchmarks . |
| 26 | They were used mainly to provide public works and made only a marginal impact upon the distressed : the Poplar workhouse was severely overcrowded in both winters . |
| 27 | Therefore — rightly claiming that his force was as yet incomplete and most of his field guns not brought up — he made only a token attack on the Russian left , while positioning his troops as they detrained and making his own tactical preparations . |
| 28 | Scratches made only a few minutes before . |
| 29 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 30 | His voice on that last telephone call came back to her , made only a few days before he disappeared . |