Example sentences of "and make [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Lundy also wanted DIY stores themselves to learn from the tragedy and make greater effort to emphasise the dangers to the public and so attempt to cut the eight thousand accidents involving supermarket trollies every year .
2 As each generation reaches retirement age , their expectations may cause them to be more active in all of these areas and make greater demands on service providers .
3 ‘ We want industry to cut down on its own waste and make better use of other people 's .
4 it compresses the model renewal interval , which increases the opportunities to modify designs and make better use of new technologies ; and
5 Colodense director and general manager Tino Savvas added : ‘ The key issue now is to remain number one and make further progress with our continuous improvement programme .
6 If the customer feels that her request or complaint has been dealt with pleasantly and fairly , she is likely to come back again and make further purchases .
7 A few days before his chanceless century , Dean expressed a wish ‘ to go on and make bigger scores .
8 Friends raise funds for Mark THE family and friends of autistic five-year-old Mark Mason have raised £1,400 to buy special computer equipment to help him communicate and make better progress at the special school he attends in York .
9 Had n't you better go and make further enquiries ? "
10 The demonstrators ' tactic of walking into the police lines , while it was a principled assertion of their right to march , invited the violent response that followed and made further violence much more likely .
11 next year compared to this and made further increases which will bring the programme to over £450 million in 1994-95 .
12 This can be an economical way of running a multi computer organisation , reducing the number of powerful machines required and making fuller use of peripherals such as printers .
13 ‘ And I thought I could make mine by designing and making better products , and selling them to the world , ’ said Mark .
14 Some forms of psychotherapy are based on the work of Reich , an analyst who gave up ‘ talking ’ therapy because he saw the possibility of releasing emotional tension locked into the body , and making faster contact with the sources of conflict that cause pain and distress .
15 But where it is possible , it is valuable to learn brinkmanship , because you also learn to reduce your feelings of stress under pressure and to make better use of thermals lower down where they are often smaller and more difficult to centre .
16 We need to keep them within the national health service work force and to make better use of their additional skills .
17 When the Central Authority carpeted him for this , he stated that he had done it both to meet statutory obligations and to make faster progress on rural electrification than agreed .
18 I beg to move , That leave be given to bring in a Bill to extend exemption from prescription charges to , and to make further provision for , persons in receipt of certain categories of benefit ; to exempt from prescription charges the chronically ill and those over 60 ; and to exempt those over 60 from certain dental and optical charges .
19 Mrs. Alice Mahon accordingly presented a Bill to extend exemption from prescription charges , and to make further provision for , persons in receipt of certain categories of benefit ; to exempt from prescription charges the chronically ill and those over 60 ; and to exempt those over 60 from certain dental and optical charges : And the same was read the First time : and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 6 March and to be printed .
20 Nicaragua agreed to bring forward its general election , to release political prisoners and to make further concessions on internal reform , in return for an undertaking by the heads of state to elaborate within 90 days ( i.e. by May 15 ) a plan for the demobilization , voluntary repatriation or relocation of contras and their families from camps in southern Honduras .
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