Example sentences of "make [pers pn] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The duties attached to some of these appointments were not too arduous , which made them all the more attractive to a landed gentleman with other interests but a great desire for an increased income . |
| 2 | Tribesmen might indeed be benighted savages , but they could still stir the liberal conscience — especially when their very primitiveness and simplicity made them all the more vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous Europeans . |
| 3 | Always small things , nothing she could have a qualm about accepting , which made them all the more delightful . |
| 4 | Their small majority made them all the more conscious of the problems they needed to surmount to win the next election . |
| 5 | These emerged as the movement represented by the Enlightenment itself became more self-critical and less brashly confident in its own rationalism ; but that does not make them any the less significant or challenging for theology . |
| 6 | This would make them respectively the first and fifth most popular tourist arractions in the world , with the ones in between being the three existing Disney theme parks . |
| 7 | This absence of news made me all the more careful , and an hour after leaving camp I arrived without mishap at an open glade near the top of the hill , within a hundred yards of the forest road . |
| 8 | Every hermeneutic approach takes them as the alpha of understanding but not all make them also the omega . |
| 9 | Has all the tedious public work you have done made you any the better ? |
| 10 | She got up early to muck him out and groom him and exercise him , and she babysat nearly every evening to keep him in good oats ( not Uncle Knacker 's ) and shoes , and when she saw the riders she was up against in the collecting ring , with their adoring parents and their fat cheque-books , it just made her all the more determined to beat them , because determination was all she had . |
| 11 | It was a sad thing to Beth , and one which only made her all the more determined to draw Matthew back into the family fold . |
| 12 | This contrast may , of course , reflect to some degree the personal inclinations of the authors : it has been suggested in the previous chapter , for example , that Taskopruzade 's interests tended to the antiquarian , which would make him all the more likely to emphasize the old virtues of piety and learning . |
| 13 | Another try this afternoon could make him only the second Englishman to score in all four internationals in a season ; COULD , because Dewi Morris , whose mobile scrum half play has done much to transform England this season season is also on course to match the feat Carston Catcheside of Percy Park achieved in Wakefield 's 1924 side . |
| 14 | Almost simultaneously , under Ferdinand of Aragon , Miguel Perez de Alamàn began to specialise in the control and direction of relations with other states in a way which made him probably the nearest approach to a minister of foreign affairs hitherto seen anywhere in Europe . |
| 15 | It also made him only the second man in history to score for both sides in a derby clash . |
| 16 | But it made him only the second Briton to conquer Everest without Oxygen equipment . |
| 17 | At Warley the abbot of Halesowen 's rent for the farm of the manor is entered as a separate item , but the identity of the farmer is not revealed ; we may hazard the guess that he was William Hardeley , whose personal estate , amounting to £30 , made him much the wealthiest man in the village . |
| 18 | The Tehran trip in May , in which he was humiliated , made him all the more certain that however good the ends , ‘ this was not the kind of exchange that was proper . ’ |
| 19 | It made him all the more determined to do something . |
| 20 | In her heart , Beth sensed that he knew the way of things , and this only made him all the more determined to have a son of his own . |
| 21 | It is an important test , for impotence will not only be a poor recommendation of Community cohesion ; it could make it all the more difficult to stem the tide of bloody anarchy that could so easily engulf large tracts of Europe which we recently rejoiced to see set free . |
| 22 | It must make it all the harder that this reception has availed so little in the result … still this is n't the end of everything . |
| 23 | This does not make it any the less disturbing and below we will discuss contemporary styles of delinquency in greater detail . |
| 24 | However , it has been said that advice which is intended to have persuasive effect is not distinguishable from inducement and ‘ the fact that an inducement to break a contract is couched as an irresistible embargo rather than in terms of seduction does not make it any the less an inducement . ’ |
| 25 | Whilst the issue of ‘ crimes of the powerful ’ , to use Pearce 's ( 1976 ) evocative phrase , is now often portrayed as a left-wing cliche , this does not make it any the less a problem . |
| 26 | The stupidity of his death made it somehow the harder to accept . |
| 27 | The vitriol , talent and critical edge of NME made it indisputably the thinking kid 's po paper , especially after its nearest rival Sounds nailed its colours to the laddishness mast in the shape of Oi ! and New Wave Of British Heavy Metal . |
| 28 | A previous user of the review machine had tried to send some faxes which never made it down the wire . |
| 29 | made it down the right hand side , he 's wearing number eleven but he came down the right hand side on this occasion and er a deep cross , he pulled it back brilliantly and who 'd missed that earlier header was there and could n't really miss on this occasion , but it was a fine header by him . |
| 30 | It was , as the Duchess said in her speech , an exciting event because Derbyshire had so few smaller manor houses of this type open to the public — and what made it all the more special was the fact that Eyam Hall is still the family home of the Wrights , who built ( or rather rebuilt ) it , a few years after the plague , in 1671 . |