Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politicians know full well that a good decision badly made can be disastrous . |
| 2 | This measure effectively makes competitive tendering compulsory for designated services , replacing the former ( largely discretionary ) powers which had been used by relatively few authorities in specific areas ( Ascher , 1987 , especially ch. 7 ; Stoker , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | Almost any sizable stretch of water , inland or coastal , may attract an Osprey , but spring birds rarely make prolonged stays . |
| 4 | QUIET cities rarely make good copy ; but on May 28th , when Miami failed to explode , it was news of a sort . |
| 5 | This is hardly surprising , since ultimately the responsibility for the decision eventually made , and its consequences , will fall to them . |
| 6 | But the peasant plaintiffs in the Mitry case presumably made the journey to Compiègne believing they might win . |
| 7 | Have new television channels , satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only ? |
| 8 | Many writers are unnecessarily pessimistic about the value of archaeology in the understanding of exchange systems in the absence of literary evidence ; Wood points out that ‘ distribution maps rarely make it possible to distinguish between trade , exchange and plunder ’ ( 1983 , p. 3 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ That meeting with Ken and his decision to make Ken 's part big made it a sort of broken-back type of play . |
| 10 | that the order was in the circumstances of this case properly made by the registrar . |
| 11 | There was an unexpected sense of achievement , as of a decision sensibly made . |
| 12 | on the Children 's tape , although the first sentence inside makes it clear that it 's a leaflet for children/young people . |
| 13 | The precepts of Confucius only make sense if the Son of Heaven to whom we offer loyalty and allegiance represents the power and dignity of the people . |
| 14 | Susan clasped her hands because she was trembling , but the tension in her locked fingers only made her shake the more . |
| 15 | Being spurned by Malcolm McLaren only made him want the group more . |
| 16 | Ferry companies need to get their acts together to make ferries safe . |
| 17 | Dan Pohl , Larry Mize and even Ben Crenshaw all made hopeless hashes of the last hole , Eamonn Darcy holed the putt of his life , Ballesteros was obsessively snuffing out Strange and shortly after that something nice took place in the woodshed . |
| 18 | And you have the framework of your story ready made for you , a great help to the beginner . |
| 19 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 20 | ‘ The effect of looking a bit deeper made more difference than anyone thought , ’ summarises Peter Frey , a psychologist at North-Western University who has written the basic text in the field , Chess Skill In Man and Machine ( Springer-Verlag 1977 ) . |
| 21 | I believe that they lie as much , or even more , in the form in the ground plan which the buildings and the natural objects together make . |
| 22 | You can add objects together to make a complex outline or intersect the shapes to produce holes in one object with another . |
| 23 | Such policies only make sense to the corporate investors and stem from the perceived need to avoid integrating the industry in any but the core capitalist countries . |
| 24 | A retailer only makes a profit if he sells goods — and if customers think products are too expensive , they will go elsewhere . |
| 25 | After all , the retailer only makes a profit on the items he sells : if the prices he charges are too high , the customers will go elsewhere and he wo n't make any profit at all ! |
| 26 | Codex at present only makes recommendations but its rules will become international standards with the settlement of the Uruguay round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 27 | The dream to join the two ramps together to make a 32ft wide superramp was finally realised this year and the work was completed in March . |
| 28 | The success of German industry in the west only made the people in the east more desperate and paranoid . |
| 29 | His wife April just scrapes enough money together to make the hundred and fifty mile round trip to see him twice a week |
| 30 | The handbrake was extensively used to cope with icy conditions on what seemed to be never-ending hairpins and headlights in the distance changing direction constantly made us wonder whether the word insanity had taken on a new meaning [ going up and down snowy mountains in a 30-year-old car ] . |