Example sentences of "to make [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For what it is worth , every typist would have to have an error rate of about one in a trillion ; that is , he would have to be accurate enough to make only a single error in typing the Bible 250,000 times at a stretch . |
| 2 | Altering the relative breadth , depth or pattern of courses seems likely to make only a marginal difference to their reputation inside and outside the higher education system . |
| 3 | The Plan B mentioned last year was for the All Blacks to make only a fleeting visit to Australia , thus opening the way for the South Africans to make a short tour to Australia and then for the All Blacks to go to South Africa . |
| 4 | Yes , certainly Caspar would be told to make ready the royal bed-chamber tonight . |
| 5 | But I think , you know to make perhaps an obvious point , the comparison is made with West Germany , it 's not made with what er Japan or , or er America for instance are proposing to do , which is less than us at the present time . |
| 6 | At any rate , Barth himself was to come to make exactly the opposite criticism of the book , which he later used to call ‘ my well-known false start ’ . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 8 | And now , my dear Willi , I would ask you to make just a little overture of … friendship , to Gesner this evening . |
| 9 | Some of these rules are concerned with the different components which go to make up a traditional story — the kind of story which is orally handed down from generation to generation . |
| 10 | Most nursing skills consist of a number of chains or subtasks combined to make up a complex response pattern . |
| 11 | Though they failed to make up a similar deficit against Essex on day two , losing 5–4 , their two doubles victories kept up their tally of rubbers going into the final day . |
| 12 | The local skateboard club voted to take down the three foot of vert and use the vert sections to make up a flat bottom . |
| 13 | The membrane vesicles were added to the assay buffer containing 20mM HEPES/arginine , pH7.4 , 5% sucrose , 0.5mMDTT , 30μM neutral red , 1μM trifluoromethoxycarbonylcyanide phenylhydrazone and with or without 400nM calmodulin to make up a total volume of 2ml and a concentration of 0.5mg protein per ml . |
| 14 | Still , it was heartening to see that Baryshnikov , now that he is running a company of his own , was applying the wisdom taken for granted in ballet , but still to be learned in too many American contemporary companies : that it is dangerous to make up a mixed programme using the work of only one choreographer . |
| 15 | With stupefaction one thinks of the wholesale slaughter of ducks and chickens , of pheasant and quail , the shiploads of Dover sole and the immense cargoes of foie gras from France , of caviare from Russia , the crates of champagne and the tons of truffles , which went to make up a single day 's entertainment in the great hotels of Europe . |
| 16 | It is also very useful to make up a full-scale plan of the seat of the chair , to mark in the positions of the mortises and tenons , especially as , the original being glued up , it is not possible to see exactly how the original joints went together . |
| 17 | At second level the department offers a series of five half-courses , which students can combine in various ways to make up a full course . |
| 18 | Beware the occasional haulage of dangerous goods ( to make up a full load , for instance ) . |
| 19 | Bonus payments tend to make up a larger share of earnings in Japan at about one-quarter of the total giving employers more room to adjust wages in line with changes in levels of economic activity . |
| 20 | It might only postpone the day , but even one day is breathing space , and I fancy he 's sharp enough to make up a plausible story , once he knows the odds , or to persuade this witness to a different tale . |
| 21 | Not surprisingly , given their perception of the adult social world , drinking , whether at home when their parents were out , or illegally in pubs , seemed to make up a large part of their activities . |
| 22 | With the templates prepared , and the length of the seat rails marked onto the plan it is now possible to make up a cutting list . |
| 23 | 1 Are there special words in your area for any of these : child , playing truant , sandwich , packed lunch , look at , very surprised , too hot ( of a person ) , wood for the bonfire. 2 What other words and expressions are special to your area ? 3 Use the ideas you have got to make up a local phrase book for your area . |
| 24 | This completes the three Nordic countries , where it is possible to make up an international champion . |
| 25 | The fact that it is possible to make up an Irish champion in one week draws not only a high proportion of exhibitors from the north , but also many exhibitors from the UK who travel by ferry and aeroplane to take part in what is known as The Circuit . |
| 26 | While this kind of breakdown does help one to comprehend the various strands and stages that go to make up the current system , it is rather crude . |
| 27 | Some mobile phone retailers are now supplying the once popular car phone free , bar an installation charge , and rely on bill-related bonuses to make up the entire profit . |
| 28 | Though he does not develop the metaphor , Paul would , I think , agree with the fuller details to be found in I Peter : individual Christians are spiritual stones which go to make up the spiritual temple which is built on Christ ( I Pet . |
| 29 | The bad news is that your pass is for today and Friday , and Lil wo n't allow you to make up the lost time in the field . |
| 30 | The ESC , however , threatened to stay away from the Civic in future if they had to make up the lost revenue . |