Example sentences of "[adv] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their routine was not the high-kicking style that eventually made John 's name . |
| 2 | Since Franco himself was head of government , this effectively made Carrero his Private Secretary . |
| 3 | The ports , such as Harfleur , at the mouth of the Seine , could develop ship-building facilities , and the control of the lower Seine effectively made Rouen into a sea port and a shipyard . |
| 4 | We 'd rather make money . ’ |
| 5 | Since a large fraction of the stock market is held by pension funds and insurance companies which will eventually make payments to workers , monopoly profits may indirectly pay income to some relatively poor people . |
| 6 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 7 | Behaving badly made Lydia feel better . |
| 8 | I 've done various things on my computer today and I can successfully make ASCII files . |
| 9 | Mrs Durbeyfield secretly made wedding plans . |
| 10 | Despite this , however , he was treated with some suspicion by Parliament , who restricted his ability to raise taxes to pay for army or navy forces , so he turned to Louis XIV of France , who secretly made funds available so as to improve the failing status of the Roman Catholic Church in England , where the Church of England virtually excluded all ‘ dissenters ’ , which included Roman Catholics . |
| 11 | We rarely make love any more |
| 12 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 13 | Its latest figures show that on £1.2bn of business it only made £18m profit . |
| 14 | But it only made things worse . |
| 15 | She found it only made things worse if she struggled , bringing her even more intimately against his muscular shape . |
| 16 | It only made sense to put tea back a bit . |
| 17 | I really had nothing useful to say , so I responded with a sympathetic noise that only made Robin-Anne shake her head impatiently . |
| 18 | The renewed popularity of British music in America only made Branson more determined than ever that Virgin should , once again , have their own operation in the States . |
| 19 | Ambition burned within her , she wanted Hari to work for her so much , to make the business an outstanding success and Hari 's reticence only made Emily more eager to have her services . |
| 20 | Their cheerfulness and delight at still being alive only made Charlie feel more guilty . |
| 21 | This year 's FA Cup Final only made No 93 . |
| 22 | You can more or less make soup from anything , though a good home-made stock adds a certain flavour . |
| 23 | Many animals that do not inhabit the especially favoured areas all the time , none the less make use of them in the course of their lives . |
| 24 | Moreover , that history and that revelation to which Christians necessarily make reference are in some sense normative for the religion . |
| 25 | Thus one exalts facts , the other the imagination ; both conceal the extent to which they necessarily make use of the other 's procedures . |
| 26 | It is not the case that social dislocation and uncertainty necessarily make people turn to God . |
| 27 | But again , it is no use just burning sugars : that would merely make things hot . |
| 28 | Making quality separate would merely make quality control ineffective and of no practical consequence . |
| 29 | They suggest that the behaviour of the young is often defined as threatening by adults in positions of power and that , encouraged by media campaigns , the state can often overreact to ‘ deviant ’ behaviour and basically make matters worse ( Frith 1984 ; Muncie 1984 ) . |
| 30 | What had begun as a jeu d'esprit of a mere 30,000 words or so made Lewis a household name . |