Example sentences of "do make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet not very much seems to have been done to make that wall unclimbable . |
| 2 | There can be no doubt that the policy of Republicans must be to ensure that everything is done to make this demand more strong , vigorously organised , widespread , well-expressed and heard not only in the North but in Britain and throughout the world . |
| 3 | There is not much you can do to make radical changes to other people 's basic life positions , but you can use your awareness of the four ‘ OK — Not OK ’ positions to understand why you sometimes feel hopeless , depressed , victimized and so on . |
| 4 | There are also a lot more things we can do to make this treatment more tolerable . |
| 5 | There are also a lot more things we can do to make this treatment more tolerable . |
| 6 | What could you do to make this relationship more loving ? |
| 7 | Yet , writing half a century later , Sir John Fortescue recognised that Henry V had been right : ‘ though we have not alwey werre uppon the see , yet it shalbe nescessarie that the kynge [ Edward IV ] have alway some ffloute apon the see , ffor the repressynge off rovers , savynge off owre marchauntes , owre ffishers , and the dwellers uppon owre costes ; and that the kynge kepe alway some grete and myghty vessels , ffor the brekynge off an armye when any shall be made ayen hym apon the see ; ffor thanne it shall be to late to do make such vessailles ’ . |
| 8 | What , some of those in the factory asked Mr Lilley , was the government doing to make sure CSE 's parent company Trafalgar House will win the contract ? |
| 9 | They do enjoy them and they do make good use of them . |
| 10 | They do enjoy them and they do make good use of them . |
| 11 | Old farm cart sheds , cleanly converted , do make good stables . |
| 12 | Some go so far , though this is an excessive claim , as to argue that variable analysis is the embodiment of the scientific method , while more , if less fulsomely , do make strong claims for it as the epitome of objective , rigorous empirical social research against which all others are to be judged . |
| 13 | But the monetary authorities in most advanced countries normally do make such contingency plans , and therefore the administration lag is unlikely to be excessive . |
| 14 | I mean , we do make all sorts of allowances with exams you know , people repeat words and th and they can leave words out and they ca n't think of a eloquent way of expressing that something at the spur of the moment so it 's |
| 15 | If the course described to you seems to bear no relation to these criteria do make further enquiries . |
| 16 | Oh you do make funny faces little girl . |
| 17 | I still n , I still think that we need to make er quick pro progress Chairman but er unless we do make quick progress and unless we do understand what 's going on and call a spade a spade then I think this programme is doomed . |
| 18 | As we do make important choices between alternative versions of sentences , even though each one is correct in itself , then in a succession of sentences , it is possible that the choice is being dictated by the sentence before , each one having a knock-on effect on the structure of the next . |
| 19 | Hard cases do make bad law . |
| 20 | Many non-standard dialects do make this distinction , which is not available in Standard English : He done it , did he ? |
| 21 | Thirdly , we recognise that managers , however , certainly at the strategic level , do make significant use of the formal publicly available information resource . |
| 22 | We would argue then , that knowledge workers , distinct from most managers , do make significant use of external publicly available information sources . |
| 23 | But they do make sociolinguistic assumptions : in context it is clear that they also assume the early development of a socially elite variety , and we can see from the first sentence of the quotation that ‘ carefulness ’ is probably also involved . |
| 24 | This problem is highlighted by the studies of Linton and Wagenaar which do make some attempt to sample a range of autobiographical events , both of which while showing slight memory improvements for emotional items appear to show memory impairments if the items were regarded as unpleasant . |
| 25 | They do make heavy demands on the resources of the hospital service , so steady efforts are being made to improve the preventive aspects of geriatric care . |
| 26 | ‘ Just a few people did make that mistake . |
| 27 | But she did make one request . |
| 28 | He did make one slip , of course — referring to Kemijärvi . |
| 29 | ( The Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 , which introduced statutory control over exclusion clauses in sale contracts did make certain clauses " void " , and there are provisions making contract terms " void " in other legislation , such as the Consumer Credit Act 1974 . ) |
| 30 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |