Example sentences of "and make [pers pn] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , they can shorten the child 's attention span and make him more easily frustrated — and this in turn leads to a poorer performance in school . |
| 2 | The two men struck a deal and subsequently Trevaskis took a 50 per cent partnership in a new company to import ‘ Laura Ashley ’ fabrics and make them up locally according to agreed patterns and styles . |
| 3 | These taxes are surely indefensible , because they are not only unproductive to the country , but actually put up the costs of producing our goods and make them less attractively priced for the overseas market . |
| 4 | In view of the understandable difficulty that this inelegant and complex piece of legislation presented to these people , one must stand in awe at what one Member , Sir Michael Havers , had the temerity to say at the Third Reading of the Bill : ‘ One of the great ambitions of successive Parliaments is to simplify the laws that they pass and make them more readily understood . ’ |
| 5 | Look at the words of the hymns , glance at the dates and link them in with the theories we have discussed , and I can promise you that it will all make a little more sense and make it even more evident how our hymn-writers wrestled with the meaning of the cross . |
| 6 | Work started in January on a £20 million programme of improvements at Stirling Castle , designed to restore the historic fabric of the castle and make it even more interesting for visitors . |
| 7 | The end of the halyard goes through the end goes through the end fitting and then we tie a little stopper knot in the end , then we bring the other end of the halyard down and make it up tight on this crease at the bottom of the mast . |
| 8 | Then we got ta put a real stiff coat on there and make it really ripply . |
| 9 | Erm , now what that means is , if you ca n't answer the question and you 've only got a few lines down then sort of trying t w blur it a little bit and make it waffly so that there 's something we can point to and say that you 've written something , right ? |
| 10 | Ruth wondered if she was gazing at the dark whiskers which sprouted on her chin and made her so appropriately , though unfortunately , named . |
| 11 | Which brought pride back into Creggan 's heart even though he was driven away , and made him even more determined to bring honour to the name of Wrath . |
| 12 | It had puzzled him and made him very slightly jealous . |
| 13 | I sought a mandate from my constituents to oppose the poll tax and made it plain exactly what I would do . |
| 14 | So , repression , it 's not that Freud dropped the concept of repression but that he elaborated it and made it much more sophisticated , and the mechanisms of defence are the means , you could say they 're the means by which er repression erm comes about . |
| 15 | I du n no I think my jig saw went , that was the wire , I just cut it off and made it off again and it was alright it 's short enough so it do n't go through the window when you throw it |
| 16 | Apprehension about the Spaniards turned out to be unjustified ; they had serious problems with the Dutch , who were moving forward in the West Indies , and also with the trade winds , that blew from the east and made it very hard for ships from the Spanish Main or from the larger islands like Cuba to reach the smaller islands . |
| 17 | Since then they have travelled more than 30,000 miles in Europe and Britain — and made it home only once . |
| 18 | I think we 've got the balance right between spectacular jumps and making it still fairly easy for the beginner as well . |
| 19 | Just as the concentration on individual managers isolates them from their proper context and makes them almost personally responsible for local policy variations , so the concentration on the processes of local politics isolated these from other sets of socio-economic processes . |
| 20 | It also increasingly removes one from the contemporary marketplace , and makes it even more difficult to foresee the future . |
| 21 | This becomes very hard and makes it even more difficult to breathe properly . ’ |
| 22 | But the more civilized route to take to Biarritz is via the mouth of the river Adour ; this stretches the journey by four kilometres and makes it twice as enjoyable . |
| 23 | The wrong sort of diet , especially one with too much fatty food , makes your arteries more likely to clog up and makes you much more liable to a heart attack . |