Example sentences of "to make [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the main groups in Viktring , the Slovenes and the Serbs , were also anxious to make clear to the British that , despite having arrived under the command of a German colonel , they were not " collaborators " and did not regard themselves as opposed to the Allies . |
| 2 | In this fashion did Lorne hope to make light of the forty-year age difference between himself and his co-star . |
| 3 | The Nicaraguan government has found this policy of amnesty hard to make acceptable to the general public . |
| 4 | Part of the considerable achievement of Michael Mann 's imaginative but faithful treatment is that it manages to make acceptable for the 1990s some of the outmoded attitudes of its characters , and yet refuses to go for that eco-trendiness that will make Dances With Wolves look dated by the turn of the century . |
| 5 | Last year he scored 259 to make sure of the 1991 County championship , and plodded off unemotionally : though he did concede to emotion on the balcony when the victory was eventually sealed . |
| 6 | Ipswich 's thoughts are currently concentrating on beating Wimbledon to make sure of the National League title and qualify for next season 's European clubs championship . |
| 7 | Organisers tried to make good for the last minute defection of many major galleries , including the leading Paris furniture specialists , with provincial French replacements , and the quality of goods was often far from top rate . |
| 8 | It should also be possible for students who have not achieved their goals by the end of the fifth year to make good in the sixth form or at college . |
| 9 | And the central reasons for rejecting the ‘ humanist ’ paradigm of the self — as I have outlined it above — are , firstly , that there may be aspects of the development of self which are not easily accessible to consciousness , and secondly , that there are conscious experiences which are not easy to make intelligible within the humanist paradigm . |
| 10 | The EC undertook to make available to the Soviet Union food aid up to an amount of ECU750,000,000 , of which one-third would be " in the form of gifts under the 1990 farm budget " and the rest in the form of a medium-term loan guarantee . |
| 11 | It was reported on Sept. 25 that a committee of 13 creditor banks meeting in Washington approved proposals to make available to the Chilean government in 1991 and 1992 funds worth a total of US$320,000,000 . |