Example sentences of "make [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women who preferred who preferred traditional methods of sanitary protection either had to stand in long queues in order to buy just one or two towels you could n't even buy a packet , you could just buy one or two or make do with other methods . |
| 2 | The result is that Central Europe mist make do with financial subsidies instead , as if it were an undeveloped region of the world . |
| 3 | The most powerful were imprisoned ; traitors were beheaded and Catholic landowners like the Roscarrocks were fined so heavily that they were forced to sell property and make do with fewer and fewer servants . |
| 4 | Some branches go in for quite lavish posters , some make do with local draughtsmanship . |
| 5 | Just that the latter will have to lower their expectations and make do with imperfect versions of the former . |
| 6 | My way would be to lay planks and make do with these until I had confirmed that it was in fact a good swim . |
| 7 | In the spa town of Svetlogorsk old German villas are kept for members of the Baltic Fleet ; civilians make do with bleak concrete blocks . |
| 8 | make do with this I thought , and then he 's and I did did n't I ? he 'd gone along and |
| 9 | I made do with peripheral vision , which , after all , is the next best thing . |
| 10 | I did n't fancy his biscuits , so I made do with some toast . |
| 11 | A couple in 1925–29 made do with 2.2 live births . |
| 12 | Returning now to monism v. pluralism , the central issue , expressed in terms of predicates , reduces to the question whether we can somehow make do without any polyadic predicates , except perhaps those of the " reflexive " variety ? |
| 13 | ITALY , Scotland 's World Cup rivals , must make do without gifted Juventus playmaker Roberto Baggio today when they seek a victory over Malta which would lift them to the top of the qualifying Group I. |
| 14 | Since Manning and Upward are in this way for the moment denied us , I shall make do with two other names : Maurice Hewlett and Laurence Binyon . |
| 15 | Students must make do with two exercise books for the entire year . |
| 16 | Because they Hyflo has 4 outlets , and I am trying to keep within budget , I would make do with 4 plates with a gap of a few inches between them — the overall effect should be total bottom filtration as there would be some sideways suction across the gravel in the gaps . |
| 17 | ‘ They might make do with that . ’ |
| 18 | No doubt McDowell could make do with first-order ‘ quasi'-knowledge in a theory of cognitive representations for ‘ lower ’ species ( in something of the form suggested by Field 1978 ) , stopping short of the special problems posed by the diagnosis of the higher-order beliefs and intentions involved in a Gricean or sub-Gricean mechanism ( cf. |
| 19 | We have asked questions about clearing the grass up afterwards and we 're told that would probably be two or three times the amount in the contract and in the actual , at the end of the day you get what you 're paid for , you get what you pay for , and if you do n't provide the resources or you ca n't provide the resources , I should say , then obviously you 've got ta make do with second best . |
| 20 | We in Scotland must make do with such styles as we can accumulate in our professional careers and , by and large , the only other source of styles for non-statutory deeds is the Encyclopaedia of Scottish Legal Styles . |
| 21 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 22 | For one person to get more , another must make do with less . |
| 23 | Everyone else made do with hired aircraft — usually C150s though a few chose the locally built Aero Boero , a Piper Cub lookalike . |
| 24 | In the meantime Lowell had made do with powdered milk for both him and the animal . |
| 25 | And how many other women had he made feel like that ? |
| 26 | However , in all fairness to such horses and ponies , many are made mean by callous adults . |
| 27 | However tentative these beginnings , it was instantly clear that furnishing fabrics would be a growing market ; customers had almost demanded them by making do with narrower width , lighter-weight dress fabrics . |
| 28 | if you tackle it , even go out there , or wine making come to that |
| 29 | BBCBASIC(Z80) does not have true boolean variables ; it makes do with numeric variables . |
| 30 | Fuel was difficult to come by after we left the forest , and when we reached the plains that stretched to the Webi Shebeli we had to make do with dry cattle dung . |