Example sentences of "to make the [adj] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The glen was an obvious subject for a canal that would obviate the necessity for small vessels to make the long and hazardous voyage around Cape Wrath and the northern coast , and in 1803 Thomas Telford was commissioned to construct a waterway to link the three lochs and connect with Loch Linnhe and the Moray Firth , thus giving a continuous water surface from the Atlantic to the North Sea . |
| 2 | His wife April just scrapes enough money together to make the hundred and fifty mile round trip to see him twice a week |
| 3 | Indeed , breaches of international law are just as important , as evidence of the need to make the political or moral case , and as evidence of the ‘ illegality ’ of the opposing case . |
| 4 | It therefore pays to make the earliest and fullest possible enquiries before exercising your option choice . |
| 5 | They helped to make the 7th and 8th Centuries a time when Jarrow was the largest centre of civilisation west of Rome . |
| 6 | The aim is to make the technical and commercial benefits of analytical SEM available to small to medium companies concerned with materials processing and manufacture . |
| 7 | ‘ Those at the power station , for instance , live in hostels at the plant during their working week to save them having to make the three or four hour journey each way from Shenzen where their homes are . |
| 8 | It is often a good idea to make the positive and negative power supply conductors as thick as possible to avoid any noise or ripple being induced on the power supply lines when thin conductors could create an unwanted electrical resistance . |