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

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1 I 'll format out ones to the next two decimals , range formats , I 'll make that unprotected cell the range protects .
2 The English could not make that final spurt , establish dominance and impose their demands for the marriage .
3 That I can make that prim mouth curve into a delightful smile … ’
4 Actually , you had better make that two prawn things . ’
5 Okay so I 'll make that two times two .
6 I mean that 's the rules of debate , but I thought I 'd make that particular point because it has a little bit of poetic licence er in that .
7 She must not make that particular sound .
8 He 'd tell him , he 'd get his orders from the office , cos the Deputy Harbourmaster he would go down all the sound he sound in river and see what wanted taken out , then he 'd say to my father I 'll dredge at so and so belo below docksill and docksill what they used to do they used to , my father what he 'd do he 'd put stakes on the mud , a short stake and a long stake on account of the tide and he 'd , he 'd make an imaginary on that stake , then he 'd go ashore at Wolverston , phone up what have you got on your docksill , the fella might say it 's ten feet , well he 'd say right we 'll make that twenty feet , so that 's er , that 's what he used to work on to dredge the river .
9 I 'll make that ole goat do the repairs , you see if I do n't . ’
10 Success in this field is going to become even more important as we move into the 1990s and beyond and I hope that in this book I 've been able to give you the benefit of my experience , to pass on the kind of backstage know-how that can make that vital difference between winning and losing .
11 ‘ It looks as if I 'll make that damned dancing class after all .
12 They 've had high points before , will they ever really make that elusive breakthrough to power ?
13 Front-line supervisors make short-term day-to-day decisions and have no time for longer-term plans and decisions .
14 Typically , this will benefit builders and developers who intend to make a taxable supply of property , but who , in a troubled property market , make short-term exempt lettings before making the taxable supply .
15 And de Gaulle had , on each occasion , made strong personal appeals for a large " yes " vote , implicitly and sometimes explicitly indicating that he would resign if the vote went against him .
16 Moore made eight Under-23 appearances and his full debut was in 1962 against Peru .
17 He made eight consecutive pars , missing putts of 6ft and 4ft for birdies at the second and sixth respectively , before a bogey at the ninth gave him an outward half of 37 and took him back to level par overall .
18 The ease with which it 's possible to construct very professional looking presentations has to be experienced to be believed , and some of the tools it provides would make professional traditional animators green with envy .
19 Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there .
20 In explaining the fall in mortality , some weight must be given to the increasing wealth of Europe which made possible better feeding and better housing — however slight the improvements may have seemed to the poor .
21 After the end of the second world war , however , a series of technological developments in farming , preserving , packaging , distributing and presenting foodstuffs made possible radical changes in foodstuff consumption habits .
22 The Royal Navy created by Henry VIII was manned by merchant seamen who fought the great naval battles which cleared the seas and made possible future trade with the East , while these same seamen , under letters of marque , plundered the bullion and seized the vessels of the enemies of England en route from the New World .
23 There was , unlike Medieval stone vaults , no lateral thrust and this made possible great vaults such as the Pantheon dome , the largest example in the world .
24 Invented in the late 18th century , it made possible large schools with a wide range of age and ability , that could be run by a small complement of teachers .
25 Even more important , the sale of public assets made possible large cuts in taxation in the 1985 and 1986 budgets .
26 This practice of employing deputies made possible bureaucratic pluralism .
27 Dalziel made squelchy soothing noises in his throat .
28 Along the western coast , on the shores of island , rock and cliff he saw cushions of pink sea thrift on rocks where lichens of yellow and red and green made each ancient rock a beauty in itself .
29 He made that 1-iron talk , hitting it below the wind .
30 ‘ A Winter Too Many ’ was the elegiac end of a besieged life … the enthralling thing about Hannah , when Barry Cockcroft made that first documentary , ‘ Too Long A Winter ’ , was not the things she managed without : warmth , water , company , money .
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