Example sentences of "make [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The back light from the day 's end made them even more dramatic and the sea was on fire . |
| 2 | The Stanleys were careful to place themselves at the head of local opinion rather than ride the county roughshod and their identity of opinion with local Unionists on political and religious matters made them even more powerful . |
| 3 | The imperial constitution and the prevailing political temper of the country made them even less effective than in Britain or France ; but the Daily Telegraph incident of 1908 and its effect in undermining the authority of William II helped to intensify them . |
| 4 | I made them up just in the spur of the moment . |
| 5 | But it feels that the modern men have expanded comics , made them somehow more artistic . |
| 6 | Even buildings whose shorter periodicity put them out of the vulnerable category suffered ; the lengthy shaking made them progressively less brittle , in effect lengthening their period until they vibrated in resonance with the quake , at which point many began to collapse . |
| 7 | The personal qualities of the Masai made them not only attractive to the British but ‘ attractive … to administer ’ . |
| 8 | Their closer ties with the masses , their unprivileged background and often grinding poverty , made them more acutely conscious of the oppressive conditions of Imperial Russia . |
| 9 | Their very weakness , their distance from practical affairs , and their isolation made them ever more extreme . |
| 10 | On the other hand , Muscovy 's social élites did suffer from weaknesses which made them much less independent and their property much less secure than elsewhere in Europe . |
| 11 | Yet it was this very stability which made them so potentially harmful , for their effects upon a whole ecosystem , as opposed to an individual species , were not considered before they were adopted and so , as farmers enthusiastically seized the opportunities which these new insecticides offered , little thought was given to any possible chain reaction which might follow . |
| 12 | This device froze mini-slabs of ice cream at -40 degrees Farenheit , which made them hard enough to be sealed with warm chocolate . |
| 13 | Different types of management experience were integrated into a set of principles which were all interrelated and presented at a level of generality which made them as widely applicable as possible . |
| 14 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 15 | ‘ It should make them even more careful about their monitoring , ’ Abrahams says . |
| 16 | They are aware of the fraud , and my hon. Friends and I will make them even more aware of it . |
| 17 | ‘ We feel it is only further embittering loyalist paramilitaries and will make them even more hard-line . |
| 18 | In the end , they argued , this would make them no longer viable and a ripe candidate for takeover by another district . |
| 19 | When considering the regulations for set-aside , which is a very valuable tool in the present negotiations , will the Minister make them rather more positive by enabling farmers who have land set aside — especially , perhaps , for one year — to use the year to clean the land rather than merely to cut it ? |
| 20 | Men who work with their hands might find a little attention with hand lotion could make them much more romantically stimulating . |
| 21 | Sorry , I run a health spa in Scotland and I see an awful lot of women who obviously come in for some slight improvement but quite frankly it is the stress factor that shows in the face that does n't make them quite so beautiful because their personalities comes across for when their stressed it shows in their face and I notice when they leave only after a few days the stress has gone and their personality shines through and their far more beautiful . |
| 22 | Y yes chair it 's all about relative accessibility and simply improving roads more distant from Leeds will make them relatively more accessible but not more accessible than locations closer to Leeds . |
| 23 | It will be an ‘ entitlement ’ to children only if the teachers ' interpretation of it and their teaching style , as it is affected by its requirements , will make them more rather than less likely to be the teachers with the sorts of qualities which are likely to engage their learners , interests . |
| 24 | ’ Do n't make me sound as old as I sometimes feel . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Nothing will make me well again . ’ |
| 26 | He made me slightly tiddly on champagne so perhaps he was trying to seduce me . |
| 27 | So I was abnormal — a sort of mini Dracula or Frankenstein 's monster , and that made me even more guilty . |
| 28 | I was clearly a bad child and that made me even more guilty . |
| 29 | It was the longest afternoon that I had known and it was worse when I heard the sound of tea being prepared downstairs for this made me even more hungry . |
| 30 | ‘ I now knew he was handicapped but that made me even more determined to keep him . ’ |