Example sentences of "make [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 2 | The classical elite theorists , Mosca , Pareto and Michels , all made strong claims to have established a scientific theory proving that government by a small elite over the rest of society is inevitable . |
| 3 | It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign . |
| 4 | It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign . |
| 5 | Dr Neil made vain attempts to stifle the bleeding , his own face now as grey as the bedlinen had been before it turned red . |
| 6 | He had always been pleased when she had called on him in London but made little effort to visit her in Carshalton . |
| 7 | But he made little effort to develop this outside his own definitions of the genealogical method , while his shift into the problematics of power seemed to lead him into a labyrinth from which it was virtually impossible to extract himself . |
| 8 | The lad who led her in , the irate punter who looked up at her with contempt and muttered , ‘ You 're useless ’ , Bill , who made little effort to conceal his anger as she unsaddled Boardwalk . |
| 9 | The government made little effort to conceal a belief that the rural sector had to pay for the development of the urban/industrial one . |
| 10 | They have been left behind by the economic restructuring of the 1980s , shunted off on a branch line of history and left back in the twilight of the 1970s along with flares and skinheads , a time when demagogues made last-ditch efforts to salvage working-class pride and channel it in a fascist direction . |
| 11 | For much of the eighty-year period which separated the Elizabethan church settlement from the civil war , the leaders of the English church made strenuous efforts to accommodate these two very different religious outlooks within its deliberately broad boundaries . |
| 12 | She made strenuous efforts to tame her behaviour when she was indoors , never rattling her earrings during Mass , nor racing along the stone corridors as if they were open fields . |
| 13 | By the War Powers Act , the Hughes — Ryan Act , the Case Act and a number of other bills in the 1970s , Congress made strenuous efforts to reclaim ground lost to the president in the realm of foreign policy . |
| 14 | The government made strenuous efforts to upgrade the quality of the teaching profession . |
| 15 | Mary Leapor , however , would have studied under a man named Richard Cooper who made strenuous efforts to improve the school during the middle years of the century [ Clarke ] . |
| 16 | Unaware that the papacy had lost much of its earlier counter-Reformation vigour and that relations between Rome and Paris were far from harmonious , many English Protestants remained convinced that their church was increasingly at risk from the growing ambition of Louis XIV , and made strenuous efforts to divert Charles and James from their pro-Catholic paths . |
| 17 | Common lawyers detested the right of benefit of clergy , and made strenuous efforts to legislate against the practice in the parliaments of 1512 and 1515 . |
| 18 | Although the Oregon Health Commission made strenuous efforts to involve the public , two-thirds of those attending the meetings were graduate educated professionals , and 60 per cent of those were health care workers . |
| 19 | Throughout most of her reign , and particularly in its early years , she made strenuous efforts to show herself an adherent of advanced theories of government and of the ideas of the French Enlightenment in general . |
| 20 | Astronomers made strenuous efforts to observe Vulcan , generally attributing their lack of success to the fact that a small body so close to the Sun would be incredibly difficult to detect . |
| 21 | There were those men who made strained efforts to submerge their mistrust , dislike and fear of us . |
| 22 | MOVES were made by the Bank of England yesterday to head off any problems in financial markets caused by Friday 's bomb attack as leaders of key institutions made extensive efforts to ensure it is ‘ business as usual ’ in the City today . |
| 23 | Several of the actresses make plucky attempts to inject it with a semblance of artistic integrity : proper name Diane Whitley is convincing as Karen , the girl who is the subject of the lovelorn quest , and Paula Wilcox , as the veteran competitor , has enough experience and talent to gauge the scale of this production and perform accordingly . |
| 24 | The worker should make strenuous efforts to help parents exercise their rights fully , for example by helping them obtain legal advice , and only after these steps have been taken , should a final agreement be signed . |
| 25 | Labour MP Bob Cryer said : ‘ The Foreign Office should make strong representations to halt this barbaric medieval punishment . |
| 26 | The report 's recommendations are in line with the Industry 's argument that it does not make economic sense to close Britain 's nuclear power plants early and that it is far cheaper to run the stations than to close them . |
| 27 | When overseas selling operations are only small scale and it would not make economic sense to carry out such operations oneself . |
| 28 | So make definite plans to deal with the fears that you can control . |
| 29 | Much more one can not say , because although Mitchell made admirable attempts to colour and project his lines , the quartet playing was so uncommitted and flabby , so lacking in dynamic range and in lustre , that Crawford 's music had little chance to make more than superficial impact . |
| 30 | One view holds it might be worth preserving only information derived from the telecommunications record , but that it would make little sense to keep it all . |