Example sentences of "to make [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the farm has , last three years has lost a lot of money and er they had one farm at Colkirk which they 've now sold and er they just sort of decided they wanted to make the , they had a big barn , a big white barn which was a real old barn and he wanted to make that into a house . |
| 2 | To make this worth a meal you have to add |
| 3 | He had said that French law moved slowly ; she was about to make this into a record case . |
| 4 | ‘ Dr. Briant wishes me to make clear at the outset that he is not entirely happy that this matter should have become a subject of public discussion . |
| 5 | We have to make clear to the respondent what words like ‘ very ’ , ‘ often ’ , etc. , are to mean . |
| 6 | In his guidance , he accepted that his job is to make clear to the nation 's leaders that God come first . |
| 7 | Always ask yourself ‘ Do they say what it is you are trying to make clear to the student ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ To put the economic aspect into perspective , it would need at least a doubling of the price of energy to make some of the supply options attractive to investors . ’ |
| 9 | I look forward to tackling the Party membership system , I wanted to make some of the sound admin system and modern communication methods which allow this Union to send each new member a new membership card , were introduced to Walworth Road . |
| 10 | Melges tried to make light of the issue : ‘ If the question is ‘ Is it difficult for us to make a decision ’ , the answer is ‘ Sometimes yes , sometimes no ’ . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Would n't want to meet him on a dark night , ’ breathed Arthur , trying to make light of the incident . |
| 12 | Back at the lodge they tried to make light of the experience . |
| 13 | Although Sorley was to make light of the experience , he had been in considerable danger . |
| 14 | It is possible to make light of the process but , be under no illusion , it is a deadly serious affair . |
| 15 | She tried to make light of the situation by telling the child this would be better than having some teeth out , which was planned for the following day . |
| 16 | To return to the example , the non-distressed parent may choose to make explicit to the friend her own thinking , such as ‘ well , the children do usually obey us and every parent gets wound up from time to time with their child ’ . |
| 17 | Against a Coventry side in no fit state to make much of a fist of it , Liley was away like the wind midway through the second half on a 45-yard run for the second of Leicester 's four tries . |
| 18 | After all , with perhaps one typeface and one size from your word processor there was precious little opportunity to make much of a mess ! |
| 19 | Many had begun by raging against it as angry young men or women and felt terribly let down by the failure of the Wilson government to make much of a dent in it . |
| 20 | Even if you did did cut one or two admirals , you 're not going to make much of a dent in a fifty billion pound public expenditure deficit . |
| 21 | True , it has a second lens but this one is of a mere 50mm focal length — too similar to the standard 35mm lens to make much of a difference . |
| 22 | One female GP — our surgery has just the one — is not really going to make much of an impression among that lot . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the inflow of complaints continues to grow and I am disturbed that we have not yet been able to make much of an inroad into the backlog of work . |
| 24 | With this vital flaw , and with Ruggero Raimondi also failing to make much of an impact as the comically menacing Bey , the performance never gets off the ground . |
| 25 | Speed came on towards the end , but did n't have chance to make much of an impact . |
| 26 | The media were later to make much of the discovery that a few weeks after Dennis Parsons 's death , Karen and I had spent a weekend at the same hotel in mid-Wales . |
| 27 | In his autobiographical study The Seamless Robe , Curran 's only book , published in 1979 , he was to make much of the complementarity and underlying unity of his experiences before 1969 . |
| 28 | Conservative Central Office will be able to make much of the suggestion that , under a Labour administration , secondary picketing would once again be lawful , that unions which ignored the courts would no longer face the possibility of sequestration and that it would not be possible for employers or other interested parties to apply for interim injunctions postponing precipitate strikes . |
| 29 | ‘ When you start the season hoping to make sure of a place in the Premier League you have to be satisfied with our present position , ’ he said , ‘ but I did n't realise we were only six points behind Leeds with a game in hand . ’ |
| 30 | One of them was Kalchu , who had come early to make sure of a place at the front before the small shrine filled up with people . |