Example sentences of "[adv] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harbury rattled on : ‘ I know he 'd rather make a statement later on and give it simultaneously to everyone . |
| 2 | Yet , Sir Edmund , I am confident the assassin will eventually make a mistake . ’ |
| 3 | I rarely made a comment on what someone was wearing ; we would sit in a park or café or at home discussing image , beauty , fashion and advertising , and skirt around the more obvious , immediate issues of how we both looked , how we were dressed . |
| 4 | It fails to see the complex ( and often hidden ) relational aspects of power which effectively make a nonsense of simple statements about who has power . |
| 5 | With its free power glove , the figure below made a sign as of a leaping spider . |
| 6 | So with your pennies and her pennies I think we should all make a lot of money for Save The Children , do n't you ? |
| 7 | And then there are some musicians who merely make a living . |
| 8 | Increased frailty may suddenly make a house or flat , lived in for years , totally unsuitable — the garden is too big to manage , upstairs bedrooms become inaccessible , or getting to the shops and other local services presents difficulties . |
| 9 | So we could perhaps make a case for offering curatorial protection to artefactual software by regarding it as part of the contextual and functional extension of hardware without which technical history would be incomplete . |
| 10 | Like the White Queen , we should perhaps make a habit of believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast ! |
| 11 | Tal suddenly made a noise like a tinny victory trumpet and took off , flying back up the road . |
| 12 | Your Lord if one turns to the issues of reference , er the commercial quarters as we discussed yesterday should only make a reference if it 's necessary to do so in order to resolve the case and has the discretion whether to make a reference under article one seven , seven |
| 13 | Lois will only make a profit or loss under the second strategy when there are changes in relative prices . |
| 14 | It may sound priggish , but she says it 's unwise to go against one 's nature , its fundamental requirements , she knew that she could only make a go of it , a real go — and that was what she wanted — with some very extraordinary kind of man , and she had n't met him yet . |
| 15 | In future students will be under the control of the Education rather than the Service side , and will only make a service contribution of 20 per cent of the student 's time ( approximately 6 months of the 3 year period ) . |
| 16 | They will only make a court order if there are major problems . |
| 17 | Of course they can only make a living in this way if they are faster than other dealers in the market . |
| 18 | It is suggested that this is an addition to a breach of CA 1985 , s263 which provides that the vendor can only make a distribution out of profits available for the purpose . |
| 19 | This provides that a court may only make a care order if it is satisfied that the child concerned is suffering significant harm . |
| 20 | A court can only make a care or supervision order if satisfied : ( a ) that the child concerned is suffering , or is likely to suffer significant harm ; and ( b ) that the harm , or likelihood of harm is attributable to : ( i ) the care given to the child , or likely to be given to him if the order were not made , not being what it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to him ; or ( ii ) the child being beyond parental control ( s31 ) . |
| 21 | 3 Better make a decision than none at all . |
| 22 | But I had had quite er if you want funding erm there 's only so many people out there , you better make a success of what you 're doing . |
| 23 | Perhaps she had better make a bolt for it . |
| 24 | Shirley 's sort of getting on to you a bit I think we 'd better make a move . |
| 25 | I suppose I had better make a move to get some clothes on you think ? |
| 26 | Er ooh better make a move . |
| 27 | I thought I 'd better make a cup of coffee . |
| 28 | Better make a start on shaving . |
| 29 | Then , ‘ Come on we 'd better make a start . |
| 30 | Oh well , I suppose I had better make a start with the Christmas shopping . |