Example sentences of "do make [adj] [noun sg] " 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 are also a lot more things we can do to make this treatment more tolerable .
4 There are also a lot more things we can do to make this treatment more tolerable .
5 What could you do to make this relationship more loving ?
6 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 ?
7 They do enjoy them and they do make good use of them .
8 They do enjoy them and they do make good use of them .
9 But the monetary authorities in most advanced countries normally do make such contingency plans , and therefore the administration lag is unlikely to be excessive .
10 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 .
11 Hard cases do make bad law .
12 Many non-standard dialects do make this distinction , which is not available in Standard English : He done it , did he ?
13 Thirdly , we recognise that managers , however , certainly at the strategic level , do make significant use of the formal publicly available information resource .
14 We would argue then , that knowledge workers , distinct from most managers , do make significant use of external publicly available information sources .
15 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 .
16 ‘ Just a few people did make that mistake .
17 But she did make one request .
18 He did make one slip , of course — referring to Kemijärvi .
19 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 .
20 We did make we did make this point to Keith actually very very clearly ,
21 So , we can expect conflict and , and did make this point , but we need to underline it , because it 's very important .
22 I did n't do so , but I did make another suggestion .
23 In the event , he did make some contribution to Toby and Laura 's education .
24 The movie that provoked most debate around rape and its representation before The Accused , was Lamont Johnson 's 1976 film Lipstick , which at least did make some attempt to make connections between the rape and the wider social implications of how society constructs images of women .
25 Direction , one felt , was needed , and up to a point , with soloists Neil Black and William Bennett , it did make some impact .
26 If either the Darwinians on the one hand , or the religious leaders of that time on the other , did make any effort to reconcile the theories of evolution with the doctrines of religion , they made no progress and the two factions became hopelessly opposed , and the religious leaders set up intense opposition to the teachings on evolution .
27 The release of colonic regulatory peptides by bile salts does make physiological sense .
28 The taxing of consumption does make current saving more attractive .
29 But it does make perfect sense in context .
30 Now , that is something , that one would find difficult to accept normally , erm , but seeing as our Councillor has been chair of transportation , I believe in the past and also leader of the County Council , that then it it does make one wonder about erm , bud bud budgeting and raising expectations of people around the county unnecessarily .
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