Example sentences of "make they [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that this made them live longer — average life expectancy was only 38 . |
| 2 | The melodic contour would suffer if we made them all equally prominent , so we have to decide on their relative importance and stress them accordingly . |
| 3 | What made them less than first-rate , yet also made them popular locally , was the touch of theatricality and exaggeration , the desire to impose , which was very foreign indeed to the character of Oswaldston as a town . |
| 4 | ‘ They do n't make them strong enough , ’ said Midwinter . |
| 5 | A family of four will make them last right through to the new year . |
| 6 | When this stage has been reached a new work will pick them up and , usually by parodic means , make them perceptible again as devices . |
| 7 | they have a tendency to open them make them wider apart |
| 8 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
| 9 | Let us instead sing the praises of those who get us to smile — the Hundred Funniest ( say we ) People in Britain : those indomitable men and women who help us to cackle through our tears , and who , while they do n't make the bad times any better , certainly make them hurt less . |
| 10 | Apparently FirstPerson will have a tough task to water down the industrial-strength principals of Spring and make them lightweight enough for the mass consumer market . |
| 11 | Had not God made them small enough to do the job ? |
| 12 | Erm there 's another one that a lot of came up with one or two had heard a few before and they all groaned and then accused you of making them all up ! |
| 13 | All Uvistat products screen both rays in near equal proportions and are hypo-allergenic , making them suitable even for sensitive skin . |
| 14 | Either attempts can be made to ensure that corporate managers behave as profit-maximizers by making them responsive once again to the market ; or , alternatively , new life can be breathed into the legal model of the company so that managers are once again forced to act in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 15 | The year provides students with a personal knowledge of American culture , making them aware not only of its European origins but also of how distinct it is from its parent cultures . |
| 16 | Some people have a talent not only for making things happen but for making them fit neatly together . |
| 17 | However , there are always attendant risks with taking people out of an environment where they have been successful and moving them , mid-career , into a completely different style and sector and trying to make them successful there . |
| 18 | For the Falcons the main aim of this free falling detachment is to blood the 4 new jumpers on the team , basically to make them good enough for the start of the display season in the Spring and there 's no room for lack of concentration . |
| 19 | Moreover , while the Soviet Union welcomed the chance to help Egypt and other revolutionary Arab states to evict their old colonial masters , it did not wish to make them strong enough to become independent of itself . |
| 20 | I designed windows suited to all positions , and of all varieties of size form and grouping doorways cornices parapets and imaginary combinations of all these , carefully studying to make them all thoroughly by practical , and suited to the class of building . |
| 21 | Apart from the exhibits , work has progressed rapidly on restoring the various buildings to make them usable once again . |
| 22 | Being concerned with gentlemen or noble persons , in other words those within the society who were in a position to act , Spenser directs his poem to make them aware both of dangers and responsibilities . |
| 23 | What do tailors and seamstresses call the little tucks they sew into garments to make them fit more snugly ? |
| 24 | There is no natural place for figure-work in this sophisticated decorative system ; but when the urge to represent prevails , forms are fascinatingly adapted to make them fit in . |
| 25 | The restoration has also revealed the way the archaeological elements were doctored to make them fit together as a sophisticated whole . |
| 26 | To provide training in research methods which makes them capable subsequently of assuming the role of independent scholars and research workers at the highest level . ’ |
| 27 | This makes them liable finally to neglect the complications of their position , and simply to accept or reject ‘ tokenism ’ , without considering all its implications . |