Example sentences of "[adv] make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harbury rattled on : ‘ I know he 'd rather make a statement later on and give it simultaneously to everyone . |
| 2 | It was already chaotically busy with officials and administrators knitting together the many responsibilities which would eventually make a successful tournament . |
| 3 | Yet , Sir Edmund , I am confident the assassin will eventually make a mistake . ’ |
| 4 | Now , if you make a cup very deep and turn the sides over , you eventually make a lensless pinhole camera . |
| 5 | I rarely made a comment on what someone was wearing ; we would sit in a park or café or at home discussing image , beauty , fashion and advertising , and skirt around the more obvious , immediate issues of how we both looked , how we were dressed . |
| 6 | People only rarely make a positive choice , weighing up one credit arrangement against another . |
| 7 | It fails to see the complex ( and often hidden ) relational aspects of power which effectively make a nonsense of simple statements about who has power . |
| 8 | Here at the scene of the crime he only made a preliminary examination . |
| 9 | The pelagic zone also includes a few creatures that are land-based , but none the less make a significant contribution to the marine ecology : birds such as the puffins , gannets , boobies , auks , terns and penguins ; the pinniped carnivores — seals , sea-lions , fur seals , and walruses ; other carnivores — the sea-otter and the polar bear ; reptiles such as some marine crocodiles and the marine , herbivorous iguana of the Galapagos Islands . |
| 10 | Both rabbits together made a curious , dancing movement of the head and front paws . |
| 11 | With its free power glove , the figure below made a sign as of a leaping spider . |
| 12 | So with your pennies and her pennies I think we should all make a lot of money for Save The Children , do n't you ? |
| 13 | And then there are some musicians who merely make a living . |
| 14 | Increased frailty may suddenly make a house or flat , lived in for years , totally unsuitable — the garden is too big to manage , upstairs bedrooms become inaccessible , or getting to the shops and other local services presents difficulties . |
| 15 | When the children help , they sometimes suggest a different way of arranging things and even a small alteration can suddenly make a forgotten toy more popular . |
| 16 | Here , instinctual need provides the impetus for intelligent action , and an instinctual drive which would merely make a hungry dog bark at a suspended bone makes a hungry primate build , climb and reach with a tool . |
| 17 | Like the White Queen , we should perhaps make a habit of believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast ! |
| 18 | Okay erm let's perhaps make a few comments then about the Vienna settlement itself . |
| 19 | It would perhaps make a poignant epitaph to Eliot 's creative career that he should return to the literary associations and memories of his youth in America — the " Victorian American " who even in his rebellion against that inheritance marked himself as its true heir . |
| 20 | Erm I had rather thought that that you had been given erm sufficient information already to perhaps make a straightforward simple strategic choice between between districts . |
| 21 | So we could perhaps make a case for offering curatorial protection to artefactual software by regarding it as part of the contextual and functional extension of hardware without which technical history would be incomplete . |
| 22 | Tal suddenly made a noise like a tinny victory trumpet and took off , flying back up the road . |
| 23 | If a bird pecks at these it will probably only make a small tear in the edge of the wing and the butterfly may then escape . |
| 24 | As our bodies can only make a few of the necessary vitamins we need , they must be provided by what we eat . |
| 25 | Non-executive directors can only make a limited contribution to a company given that they have little knowledge of its day-to-day working . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It has already been said that the Duchess of York will only make a fleeting visit with princesses Beatrice and Eugenie so it looks like that the two royal outlaws will now just be bringing the children to tea . ’ |
| 27 | In future students will be under the control of the Education rather than the Service side , and will only make a service contribution of 20 per cent of the student 's time ( approximately 6 months of the 3 year period ) . |
| 28 | It may sound priggish , but she says it 's unwise to go against one 's nature , its fundamental requirements , she knew that she could only make a go of it , a real go — and that was what she wanted — with some very extraordinary kind of man , and she had n't met him yet . |
| 29 | This provides that a court may only make a care order if it is satisfied that the child concerned is suffering significant harm . |
| 30 | Lois will only make a profit or loss under the second strategy when there are changes in relative prices . |