Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adj] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had one roll-up an hour and you had to roll them so thin to make the tobacco last : jaw-achers they were . |
| 2 | For the most part , however , the solution will lie more on the managers ' side than the shareholders ' : the managers need to be given incentives that make them less likely to make the colossal errors of the 1960s . |
| 3 | Nor , for that matter , are they all able to make first-hand experiments with teaching style , some of them having been promoted out of contact with the pupils . |
| 4 | Mm , and what are they , are they , are , are they actually supposed to make money off it or is it just supposed to be a break even thing or are they quite happy |
| 5 | ‘ Is n't it rather unusual to make a display of your own collection of medieval artefacts ? |
| 6 | Small firms may not find it so easy to make this commitment , particularly if they have either a small , stable workforce , or the need to recruit at short notice when vacancies occur . |
| 7 | These categories of luck threaten the very notion of moral responsibility in that if the precondition of control is consistently applied we would be disbarred from making the wide range of moral judgments that we find it entirely natural to make . |
| 8 | Frankly , I find it extremely difficult to make judgments about any of the 5,451 AIDS sufferers , let alone the 16,828 |
| 9 | Even recent Conservative governments have found it extremely difficult to make real reductions in public spending . |
| 10 | The only increase smaller than the £15 is in what is known as the terminal illness category for nursing homes , for reasons that I explained to the House in my uprating statement , where we have instead thought it more appropriate to make , through the Department of Health , an additional grant of £1 million specifically directed to the funding of hospices . |
| 11 | Alan Calladine said : ‘ We are confident that this shop will be a success with its appealing range of gifts , toys and souvenirs and we hope that the people of Ripley and those shopping in Ripley will find it more convenient to make their bookings for the centre 's special services than Butterley Station . ’ |
| 12 | It was a bizarre kind of inconsistency , and that made it more difficult to make the decision to join Fleetwood Mac , because we thought there might be something going on here . |
| 13 | But if the stranger was an exact replica of myself , behaved in exactly the same way , etc. , he would obviously find it more difficult to make a correct identification . |
| 14 | Perhaps the social science historian needs more contextual information because the passage of time may make it more difficult to make assumptions about what data signify , but this is surely only a question of degree . |
| 15 | Unfortunately they could not work out how to change the setting from low resolution and FAXgrabber found it really hard to make a good job converting a fax of a press realise announcing its launch . |
| 16 | However , it may take some considerable time to reach this target ; as the majority of DATEC courses are run in separate art colleges and these have been particularly squeezed by the current financial crisis , they are finding it particularly difficult to make the desired provision . |
| 17 | He valued advice because he found it almost impossible to make decisions . |
| 18 | Two home defeats have dented Boro 's hopes of automatic promotion , and Lawrence said : ‘ Failure to get three points against Oxford would make it almost impossible to make the top two . |
| 19 | Crucially , they found it almost impossible to make them work for a wage . |
| 20 | Confused data on peasant landownership and family size made it virtually impossible to make accurate assessments , so that for many provinces only half of the taxable land per head was in fact recorded in the tax lists . |
| 21 | I 'm just thinking if you did lots and lots of little bits , I think you 'll find it quite difficult to make the rest of it coherent . |
| 22 | we concede on the basis of the exercises that have been discussed so far , I think you will find it very difficult to make a firm recommendation in favour of a specific location. , albeit on a district basis . |
| 23 | ‘ She told me she had mucked up her first few weeks and was finding it very difficult to make friends . ’ |
| 24 | Many families these days are finding it very hard to make ends meet . |
| 25 | ‘ He taught me that is it very hard to make a profit but very easy to let a bunch of people spend it . |
| 26 | With luck , Mr Gorbachev may also have left it too late to make a fourth big mistake : returning his country to dictatorship . |
| 27 | This year he was not doing so , claiming that he had left it too late to make arrangements . |
| 28 | In extreme cases the project may fail to reach completion or reach it too late to make the desired impact on the market . |
| 29 | Erm first of all , as I grapple with this problem over the weekend , it did seem to me very difficult to make any sensible assessment of integration on a at a strategic level because so clearly it is a site specific matter . |