Example sentences of "to make a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm trying to make a gradual move from being Charlene from next door to being Kylie . |
| 2 | The ’ other details ’ in the rule , which were left unspecified above , are to help best-rule to make a good choice of rule . |
| 3 | Thomas and Ell seemed to make a good couple . |
| 4 | Apply it to one surface then press together quickly and accurately to make a good contact . |
| 5 | She was not a beauty , it had to be said , but she had a good figure , enough sense to make a good wife and mother , was practical and kind-natured . |
| 6 | I would place Aspen Pittman 's article in the same league as time share selling , or book clubs or something equally hazy with the truth that happens to make a good profit . |
| 7 | I 've been dying to make a good ginger pudding for years ! |
| 8 | No , forget the history in guidebooks completely , leave history to the writers of climbing epics where no one cares if the facts are bent to make a good story — or do they ? |
| 9 | ‘ To make a good will a man must be a free agent . |
| 10 | ‘ Your father is a worried man and he is looking to you to make a good marriage , that way at least your own future will be secure . ’ |
| 11 | Now I 've learned , I 've been since Saturday as I told you and I 've , I 've learned how to make a good question . |
| 12 | to make a good square so you |
| 13 | Lurking behind all this in Mary 's case is , of course , the notion of the gentler sex , with all that entails ; if nice men made bad kings , because successful kingship meant toughness and ruthlessness , how could the more emotional , gentler female hope to make a good queen ? |
| 14 | Failure to make a good hold off and landing because of eagerness to get down |
| 15 | Captain John Moberley of the Royal Navy said of him , ‘ keeps a good reckoning , is attentive and promises to make a good officer ’ . |
| 16 | What 's in it for the businesses is this : at the moment they can see Eastern Europe as an emerging market , but it 's very difficult to get in there because the hard cash and the skills that they need do n't exist in those countries , but they want to do something , they want to demonstrate their interest , they want to make contact , and what Enterprise Europe gives them is the opportunity to make a good business contact amongst one the young generation of er of business leaders in those countries er in order , and keep those contacts in order that when they do have an opportunity to go into those markets they 've got some young people there to start off with . |
| 17 | No politician , whether a great magnate intent on retaining a traditional dominance in his region , a minister of the crown seeking favourable returns for his administration , or a landowner merely wishing to make a good figure in his own county , could manage without access to patronage with which to reward his friends ' loyalty by helping them in their times of need . |
| 18 | They soon talked and agreed that the shortish novel had the potential to make a good movie . |
| 19 | Even if the child 's articulation is poor , the adult is likely to be able to make a good guess as to a likely meaning . |
| 20 | To make a good pound of cheese , ingredients are 4 pints of ordinary full cream milk , 1 teaspoons of junket rennet ( liquid , not powder ) and a little salt . |
| 21 | Happily it was rare to be as unfortunate as Dooley on the field , but few were able to make a good career in the game . |
| 22 | And perhaps most fundamental of all , we have to try to live and teach according to our ideals , and to promote them , whilst at the same time trying to make a good career within a system that seems at many points to be based on quite antagonistic values . |
| 23 | Even those students intending to make a good copy of their rough essay may plan their writing . |
| 24 | Current Sounds favourites and ‘ God Knows It 's True ’ makes all the right noises in all the right places , like an identikit guide of how to make a good record . |
| 25 | Current Sounds favourites and ‘ God Knows It 's True ’ makes all the right noises in all the right places , like an identikit guide of how to make a good record . |
| 26 | ‘ I mean , a wah-wah pedal 's alright in context , but it can only be used to make a good son better . |
| 27 | ‘ I mean , a wah-wah pedal 's alright in context , but it can only be used to make a good son better . |
| 28 | Their function now is to make a good job of delivering the railway services that the PTEs and sectors want to buy from them . |
| 29 | Although Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1967 ) , which seldom got beyond being a plodding , picturesque illustration of Thomas Hardy 's novel , failed to make an impact in the USA , Picker somehow had confidence that the cultured , softly-spoken , bald 42-year-old Englishman would be able to make a good job of the essentially New York story of Midnight Cowboy . |
| 30 | Anyone can be a biological mother , but it takes a professional woman to make a good job of it . |