Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | England and Scotland , neither of whom have ever won the title , already have a nine-shot deficit to make up . |
| 2 | I have found when mixing cement , sand and water , that they need the help of a softening agent to make the mortar much more malleable . |
| 3 | However , this chord fits in well with the others because the strength of discord is equal to that in other chords : Finally we add a low part to make five-part harmony . |
| 4 | In the float it raised £50m cash , so is in a strong position to make its move . |
| 5 | Our market share continues to grow and we are in a strong position to make further progress in 1993/94 and as the economy recovers . |
| 6 | I think the Churches have a strong contribution to make . |
| 7 | This has been painted in a strong colour to make it look more aggressive . |
| 8 | Tonson would have had a strong incentive to make the effort to accommodate this particular late arrival : unlike ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ , which is a virtuoso show-piece full of semiquaver pyrotechnics ( and therefore unsuitable for the amateur market ) , it was included in the Select Songs volume — so to omit it from the word-book might have led to complaints . |
| 9 | His outline programme included a 100-day package to curb inflation , a declared intention to make the forint into a convertible currency ( but without a specified target date ) , and a commitment to land reforms , as demanded by the Smallholders who had campaigned on the single issue of returning farmland to its pre-1947 owners ; agriculture was to become primarily based on private ownership , with encouragement for family farms and voluntary co-operatives , although a limited number of state farms would also remain in existence . |
| 10 | The HCIMA was working closely with the British Nutrition Foundation , through consultant food scientist , in a European programme to make hotels and restaurants more nutrition aware . |
| 11 | Vaughan loves to cook , but finds it a punishing way to make a living : ‘ People told me that there was no job harder than nursing , ’ recalls Vaughan , ‘ but they were wrong ! |
| 12 | There are slight stylistic differences in the execution of the relief work , and it may be that one cup is an exotic , a Minoan import , and the other was made by a Mycenean craftsman to make a pair ; on balance , I think it more likely that both are Minoan ( Figure 31 ) . |
| 13 | Indeed , the Copyright Designs and Patents Act now contains a specific right to make a back-up copy if necessary to the lawful use of the program concerned , section 50A . |
| 14 | Of course , she did n't believe every Sagittarian had felt someone was plotting against them , or that each and every one had such a momentous decision to make . |
| 15 | That 's a cruel joke to make . ’ |
| 16 | Meanwhile , his wife justifies everything he does , ignores the very obvious sufferings of her daughters , and sacrifices her last chance of a career in nursing in a vain attempt to make her husband love her . |
| 17 | And in a vain attempt to make Williams jump he said , ‘ I rather think we may have to tighten up on one or two things round here . ’ |
| 18 | The Liberal Democrat spokesman , Mr Charles Kennedy , quoted a letter from the Department of Health which admitted patients were in a weak position to make meaningful comparisons or to shop around , so the NHS could not always rely on competition to make sure that its internal and external markets worked effectively . |
| 19 | Following half-pay retirement in England , he embarked for India in 1817 and spent three years editing a Tory newspaper in Calcutta and acting as agent of a failed scheme to make the island of Saugor , at the mouth of the Hooghly river , an entrepôt and health resort , after ridding it of tigers ( hence his nickname ‘ Tiger ’ ) . |
| 20 | It is necessary for everyone to stand up and be counted in a combined effort to make all MPs and prospective parliamentary candidates state their stance on free public access . |
| 21 | It had been such a good idea and all that had resulted from it was a double punishment for her and a complete failure to make anyone believe to Alicia or Daryl had played the trick . |
| 22 | ‘ It was a strange mistake to make seeing as he was so careful to wipe any marks he had left behind . |
| 23 | On the face of it , it was a strange move to make since , by his own admission , Mr Lawrence 's experience of the insurance business was negligible . |
| 24 | ‘ Whether it 's a right or a duty to report , you still have a professional judgment to make about the circumstances and , frankly , those will be the same . |
| 25 | Anyone can be a biological mother , but it takes a professional woman to make a good job of it . |
| 26 | We have er one thousand two hundred lawyers in our firm round the world er continuing to develop their skills , continuing to deal with clients on a daily basis to make sure they 're able to service those those demands . |
| 27 | In a review of John Betjeman 's verse-autobiography Summoned by Bells ( 1960 ) , Philip Larkin remarked approvingly that Betjeman , in his triumphant lucidity , had managed to bypass the whole light industry of exegesis ; that Eliot 's famous demand about the need of poets , in the present state of civilisation , to be difficult could only be an ingenious bit of intellectual job-creation , a Modernistic charter to make work for unemployed critics ; and that the tradition of Kipling and A. E. Housman stood ready to hand for instant revival , ever eager to prove that poetry can still enjoy a reading public if only the poet is prepared to be simple , moving and memorable . |
| 28 | It 's a three-man chain to make contact . |
| 29 | Mr Honecker chose a different image to make the same point : attempts to destabilise socialism , he said , are like ‘ the fruitless attacks by Don Quixote against windmills that continue to turn imperturbably . ’ |
| 30 | She even de-sexualises her figures in order to emphasise these spiritual qualities , making them fairly androgynous looking at times , although they retain enough of a feminine aspect to make them clearly women . |