Example sentences of "make [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At ground level the nest-owner can make exaggerated movements away from the nest and draw the killer towards itself . |
| 2 | Mine does n't make that noise now |
| 3 | Did you make that mess there ? |
| 4 | He means that there is a gene which , if it is present in an animal of a given species , along with all the other genes and environmental circumstances characteristic of that species , will make that animal somewhat more likely to do X. Then , if doing X causes an increase in the number of copies of the gene in the population , the gene will spread . |
| 5 | You can make that description properly attention-grabbing . |
| 6 | She would not make that mistake again . |
| 7 | You wo n't , hopefully you wo n't make that mistake again , so , short , sweet , crisp answers to these erm , these short answer questions . |
| 8 | We ca n't make that observation directly , because our feelings of cold do n't enable us to discriminate temperatures that finely . |
| 9 | Windows for Workgroups should make that growth even faster — and it 's not expensive either . |
| 10 | This should include establishing a regular pattern of breathing which will , of course , make that relaxation even deeper . |
| 11 | He should make that point forcefully to Mr Adams the next time they meet . |
| 12 | An over-sophisticated document may make that task far more difficult than it need be . |
| 13 | If the hon. Gentleman is seeking to make a charge against me , he must make that charge equally against the chief veterinary officer for raising that issue in the first place . |
| 14 | A guarantee is a promise by a third party which , if properly drawn up , will make that party legally liable to pay you if your own debtor can not or will not settle . |
| 15 | Egypt made strong protests both before and after the conclusion of the Memorandum . |
| 16 | We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school : |
| 17 | The Chief of Staff of the Air Force , Vice-Marshal Momtazuddin Ahmed , confirmed publicly for the first time on May 10 the claim made eight days earlier by the head of the opposition Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajed that there had been extensive damage to the country 's small fleet of aircraft . |
| 18 | Wishful thinking made political partisans more optimistic about their own party 's prospects and more inclined to forecast their opponents ' defeat . |
| 19 | When I made that bed yesterday it was sitting in there . |
| 20 | Very difficult indeed er hearing the Maxwell people talking earlier I think er again and made that point very clear . |
| 21 | I did make the point that Mr Maxwell 's company wants co-operation on the eastern edge of the City , vis-á-vis their football stadium , and we ought to have some co-operation on the western edge of the City where all these houses are boarded up and empty , bought at double the market value , and I made that point publicly . |
| 22 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 23 | And then er that 's one of t the the boss made that cabinet there er it 's got the feet er but and these are what they call astricles These panes of glass are all in er individually you know , they 're all put in and to polish these wee astricles oh you you had to be very deli cos they 're very thin you know , and you had to flay them and polish and they lay them in the thing and then they they were fitted in and then the glass was The doors were sent to the glaziers Certain amount of polish on them and then the doors were sent to the glazers and then they were finished after that you know . |
| 24 | I said er uncle Cecil made that cabinet there did n't he Margaret ? |
| 25 | And it was on that basis that we made that statement there . |
| 26 | They recommend measures that make economic sense regardless of whether or not global warming is occurring , such as limiting deforestation and increasing energy efficiency . |
| 27 | However , in addition to increasing reports of transient parties inland , a wintering herd is now established in the Amberley/Pulborough marshes and groups regularly make prolonged stays elsewhere . |
| 28 | The true theory of the Nicol prism was not clearly understood even by its inventor , but in a neglected paper by Edward Sang the mathematical theory is given completely for the first time ; this also contains a suggestion , made forty-seven years later by M. E. Bertrand in the Comptes Rendus , that a polarizer might be constructed of two glass prisms separated by a suitably placed thin layer of Iceland spar . |
| 29 | The repeal of s39 does not reduce the impact of this decision ( since partnership with unqualified persons remains for the moment prohibited by the rules of the profession ) , though the new procedures for the issue and replacement of practising certificates may make accidental disqualification less common . |
| 30 | In these days of concern for the environment I am unwilling to use peat ( though I did try it some years ago and found my plants made little headway anyway ) . |