Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Even with the latter part of this clause ( as drafted ) included it has been held that a landlord must still make full disclosure and not mislead the tenant nor will these words protect the landlord from an action for misrepresentation or misdescription .
2 A purchaser should always make careful enquiries to satisfy himself that persons described by the vendor as independent contractors are not in fact employees .
3 It must also make full use of all sources of energy .
4 The teacher should also make certain decisions about the arrangement of furniture in the room .
5 We must now make anti-racist strategies a central part of the way in which we organize .
6 or you can ha , tap another code in and it 'll only make local calls and another code you can only make nationals
7 Speakers may still make respectful remarks about the market , but few want it to be free .
8 If the value is not a legally recognised interest , the third party may still make diplomatic claims or take political or economic action .
9 Er er I do n't think after going through everything we 've said , I think we 've all got the sort of ideas that we could all make good criminals ,
10 Before , he had always been rather frightening but now he looked pathetic with his tear-stained cheeks , grieving eyes and red gaping mouth which could only make gurgling sounds as Benjamin took him by the hand and tried to convey his condolences .
11 Therefore , where a document is a copy , the other party could only make significant use of this fact to question the probative value of the evidence if serious questions could be raised regarding the procedures by which the copy was made .
12 More than half the budget was made up of defence spending , and the Republicans , with their promises of a tough stance against the Soviet Union , could hardly make severe economies in this field .
13 Bad harvests or trade slumps could still make enormous differences either way between one year and the next , while some parts of the country , notably the South and East , experienced much sharper increases than others .
14 Alongside this influence on others the chief steward could also make direct grants .
15 Alongside this influence on others the chief steward could also make direct grants .
16 Conflict : The bank could then make imprudent loans to Company X to keep it from failing .
17 Many people who knew the Semai insisted that such an unwarlike people could never make good soldiers .
18 The middle classes , it was argued , attached to their own comfort and influenced by rational calculations of private profit , could never make good officers .
19 The dolphins may also make loud sounds and a series of echo-clicks which help to herd the fish and may even stun them .
20 They may also make short term cut backs in expenditure such as advertising and repairs , to the longer term detriment of the business .
21 Moreover , the advent of low-cost , high-density-storage devices like CD-ROMs may well make substantial data sets available even to those with modest computing power : a CD-ROM , for instance , can hold about 600 megabytes ( i.e. 10&sup6 ; bytes ) , can be reproduced currently for about £1 and read on a device costing about £400 .
22 In particular , a tax on the transfer of material wealth may well make other forms of transfer more attractive .
23 At the same time multimedia may well make other sorts of products and services obsolete .
24 Of course , if his tasks are badly designed they may well make unnecessary demands .
25 ‘ I would rather make pragmatic progress than theoretical progress . ’
26 ‘ Aye , except he pointed out that if she was new to the job and she tried to muzzle in around that quarter , the others would soon make short shrift of her .
27 Deep reds or shades of mauve would also make wonderful colour combinations .
28 None the less , the South Western Board was clearly in financial difficulties , and in 1954 the Central Authority did make a subvention of £250000 from central reserves , with the possibility of further help five years later , hoping that the Board would now make reasonable charges to its consumers to cover expenditure .
29 The clause ‘ and receive such medical treatment ’ added to section 8(1) ( b ) would then make medical treatment compulsory in the community .
30 At the other extreme , very even updating patterns would mean that most blocks or even every block required to be read and such a pattern would therefore make skip-sequential processing pointless .
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