Example sentences of "but [adj] make [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I now knew he was handicapped but that made me even more determined to keep him . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I missed out on the Olympics , but that made me even more determined to join the paid ranks . ’ |
| 3 | I said it was preposterous , but that made him even angrier . |
| 4 | But that made it no less a dire experience for those who found their world gradually being pressurized , slowly becoming conditioned by a series of events beginning with the familiar friendly knock on the door — as dramatized in Thames Television 's play Not Waving But Drowning , produced and directed by Polly Bide , based on a real-life case history . |
| 5 | Even in her weakened state , she knew that her desperate need was irrational , but that made it no less important . |
| 6 | None of this advice is new , but that makes it no less worthy . |
| 7 | But this made it extremely difficult to follow any strategy of industrial reorganisation ; and in this respect there are interesting parallels between the late 1960s and the late 1940s . |
| 8 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |
| 9 | There was no surplus solder to spoil the work , but this makes it very difficult to detect . |
| 10 | But this makes it all the more unreasonable to suppose that any a priori argument could show that one strategy will always be the right one . |
| 11 | Not tightly enough to restrict the blood flow , but sufficient to make her long to be able to stretch . |