Example sentences of "to make the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conservative legal reforms form an accurate mapped-out policy , designed to make the rich richer , remove from society those who are not economically useful , and idealise law , order and the family . |
| 2 | Were the tax cuts designed to make the rich richer ? |
| 3 | I beg to move , That this House , noting that the ten million people today living on or below the income support level of less than £40 a week for an adult represent the greatest numbers in poverty in Britain since the war , and that the Government has as a deliberate policy over twelve years further impoverished the poorest one third of the nation to make the rich richer , calls on the Government to reverse its policies of increasing poverty and unemployment and to give priority to the growing millions excluded from the rights and opportunities of real citizenship by increasing pensions by £5 per week for a single pensioner and by £8 a week for a married couple , by re-instituting the pension link with earnings which the Government broke twelve years ago , and by restoring to families the losses in child benefit from three years of government freeze . |
| 4 | Medical evidence would be relevant only to establish whether what the doctor did was deemed acceptable medical practice to make the dying patient comfortable . |
| 5 | In practice , of course , the actual amount we lend will depend on your ability to make the regular monthly repayments without putting a strain on your finances . |
| 6 | In 1983 , however , the MCC was able to make the following confident series of resolutions to the CNAA . |
| 7 | ‘ Sorry ? ’ she said , unable to make the necessary mental adjustment . |
| 8 | Students who drop out or who fail their college courses are often those who failed to come to terms quickly with their new environment and to make the necessary personal adjustments to fit into that environment . |
| 9 | It was one thing to make the necessary financial decisions , and another to obtain the right candidate for the post . |
| 10 | He chastises them for their lack of true commitment to the supply-side faith and their unwillingness to make the necessary hard choices . |
| 11 | Once they 'd moved in , it took them three years just to make the necessary structural changes , but with a neglected 350-year-old house that was to be expected . |
| 12 | It 's ( more or less ) official : Ken Olsen was pushed into resigning by the board : the Wall Street Journal hears of a meeting with employees at which Olsen discussed how he was unable to make the necessary organisational changes at DEC , in particular failing to get engineering groups to report to marketing , and then said ‘ that 's why I was fired ’ . |
| 13 | Despite this tension , there is also a refusal to examine curricula or practices : student failure , therefore , is the fault of the student 's inability to make the necessary sympathetic adjustment to the requirements of literary judgement ; not the failure of the departments in setting those requirements . |
| 14 | However , when the USSR Supreme Soviet convened for its third session on Feb. 14 , the Presidium unexpectedly failed to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority for a proposal to call the Congress of People 's Deputies into emergency session by the end of February to make the necessary constitutional changes . |
| 15 | He proposed June 12 as the polling date , with a regular Congress session convened on May 21 to make the necessary constitutional change to create an executive presidency . |
| 16 | We shall contact you to make the necessary detailed arrangements . |
| 17 | To my mind , Niki was technically and mechanically the better driver ; he was willing to make the absolute best of even the most minimal chance . |
| 18 | Meanwhile tomorrow another British convoy again of about a hundred and eighty women and children is expected to make the long hot journey from Kuwait to Baghdad . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) The wife shall not so long as the husband shall punctually make the payments hereby agreed to be made commence or prosecute against the husband any matrimonial proceedings other than proceedings for dissolution of marriage but upon failure of the husband to make the said weekly payments as and when the same become due the wife shall be at full liberty on her election to pursue all and every remedy in this regard either by enforcement of the provisions hereof or as if this agreement had not been made.n So far as we know , the parties have remained apart ever since . |
| 20 | Items in angle brackets are not in the Portuguese text — they are inserted to make the back-translation readable . |
| 21 | The greater this distance , the longer the time taken to make the final uncovered dash ( T ) , and so a duck can afford to lower its peeking rate . |
| 22 | He would not treat them as sources of law past that point , but his general responsibility when he believes that law has run out is to make the best new law he can for the future , and he might be concerned with past legal doctrine for special reasons bearing on that issue . |
| 23 | Many researchers fail to make the best possible use of libraries simply because they know so little about the bibliographical tools that are available to help them . |
| 24 | Two Guides — one a simple introduction , the other a detailed explanation of all the dictionary contains — encourage students and teachers to make the best possible use of the dictionary . |
| 25 | In a town where the politics of two great interests clashed , it was essential to make the best possible use of any means of influence and to have a deputy functioning in the regality court in a way which would make friends for the duke 's interest rather than enemies . |
| 26 | To provide a stimulus for schools to make the best possible use of all the available learning resources inside and outside the school — money , people , space , equipment and learning materials — in meeting their objectives . |
| 27 | To provide a stimulus for schools to make the best possible use of all the available learning resources inside and outside the school money , people , space , equipment and learning materials — in meeting their objectives . |
| 28 | Secondly , I urge him to make the best possible speed in this matter because for many of us it represents the most dreadful stain on our criminal justice system . |
| 29 | In addition the fall in energy costs benefit industries and economic output and help to make the Japanese current account surplus even larger . |
| 30 | At the first , knitters can learn how to make the perfect tailored buttonhole for all types of knitted fabric including Nina 's unique horizontal version for full needle rib and double jacquard fabrics . |