Example sentences of "or [adv] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the education of a king 's son was supposed to include learning to sleep in a hard or badly made bed to prepare him for the rigours of a life of non-stop , and sometimes unexpected , movement . |
| 2 | Then John had more or less made fun of him . |
| 3 | You can more or less make soup from anything , though a good home-made stock adds a certain flavour . |
| 4 | What had begun as a jeu d'esprit of a mere 30,000 words or so made Lewis a household name . |
| 5 | Fumaroli 's book is among the first to break the consensus , to ask whether all this expenditure has revived French cultural vitality or merely made culture into a stylish prisoner of the French state . |
| 6 | Debate still waxed hot as to whether the orange ape aliens were genuinely intelligent or merely made weapons instinctively as spiders make web . |
| 7 | They will always try to avoid any embarrassment , but will use their judgement on whether or not to make payment . |
| 8 | On the other hand , to describe a person as a " friend " , or a " colleague " , or a " cousin " , etc. is implicitly to presuppose the existence of non-relational features of some kind or other , physical and/or non-physical characteristics , actions , attitudes , etc. , without which such descriptions would not be applicable , or even make sense . |
| 9 | ‘ To disable at least one , Sir — or even make use of it ? ’ |
| 10 | Say they were asleep , or even making love ? |
| 11 | Companies or governments might establish committees with powers to investigate , recommend or even to make decisions . |
| 12 | If they are worried about the possibility of aggression in the visit they must tell their supervisor of their expected time of return or alternatively make arrangements for telephoning the office by a specific time . |
| 13 | It does not matter whether the purpose is to educate or edify , to corrupt or simply to make money . |
| 14 | ‘ Is that … please we 'll be married , or please make love to me ? ’ |
| 15 | In the present case the Crown Prosecution Service were informed of the order made by Buckley J. including paragraph 33 and were asked whether they wished to intervene in the hearing before the Court of Appeal or otherwise make representations in the appeal . |