Example sentences of "make [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Many are being refitted with the same smart new decor which will make them easier to spot on the high street .
2 ‘ It should make them even more careful about their monitoring , ’ Abrahams says .
3 They are aware of the fraud , and my hon. Friends and I will make them even more aware of it .
4 ‘ We feel it is only further embittering loyalist paramilitaries and will make them even more hard-line .
5 Well it 's just that for that , I mean that 's all , it 's all relative for those conditions there are , there is too much labour on the land , you erm , if you could increase agricultural productivity in a way that would displace labour and that 's very difficult to do , well you can , you can do it er most , most capital is labour displacing but not all , not all capital , erm so you could , whereas I see , I see what you are saying is that , why well the you could g you could , you could do it right even though that there are a lot of people on the land er you could still make them wholly productive by giving them more capital that was n't labour that was n't labour displacing , like you give them better seeds for example , like that would increase the productivity of the land , there would n't be so much you know population pressure on the land er because everybody would have enough to eat and we could er actually sell something , right .
6 After they had eaten , her mother let Caro make them both a cup of tea .
7 He also designed a bed that could be raised up and down and told Pat to go to the patent office with the plan which would make them both a fortune .
8 In the end , they argued , this would make them no longer viable and a ripe candidate for takeover by another district .
9 It may not make them popular , but it will usually make them right .
10 However , despite some change in secondary selection , it remains the case , most remarkably , that though wartime and free education made the arguments of economy , fairness and impartiality more applicable they did not make them universally acceptable .
11 When considering the regulations for set-aside , which is a very valuable tool in the present negotiations , will the Minister make them rather more positive by enabling farmers who have land set aside — especially , perhaps , for one year — to use the year to clean the land rather than merely to cut it ?
12 Mud is today rejected because of the inegalitarian social plan of most developing nations and because it does not allow housing professionals any control over the housing process , and indeed would make them largely irrelevant .
13 As in the case of the sauropod dinosaurs they seem to have got bigger and bigger during the Cretaceous — some of these later pterosaurs are supposed to have had wing spans exceeding lo metres , which would make them almost comparable to a man-made glider .
14 This will make them less decisive and may inhibit them from giving orders or taking charge of the situation .
15 ‘ Just because they are small does not make them less precious .
16 That there is a certain amount of confusion and inconsistency in the arguments does not make them less to be feared .
17 Never evade their letters or telephone calls , it will only make them less amenable to your predicament .
18 Does this make them less right-on ?
19 But , insurers point out , this may make them less able to compete against other financial institutions .
20 The fewer susceptible people in urban areas would reflect the prior sporadic exposure to the widespread relevant agent , which would make them less vulnerable to an epidemic caused by new and sudden population mixing .
21 On some models you can adjust the distance that the blades will open and this can make them less tiring to use for a prolonged period .
22 We are aware that serial killers and the like are merely expressing themselves , working out their various hang-ups and generally freeing themselves from those inhibitions which might , if suppressed , make them less complete human beings .
23 Supermarket trolleys have to be fairly cheap and brakes would make them less economical to produce .
24 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 .
25 Shilton 's goalkeeping and extra pace in the back four should make them hard to beat next summer , but goals will be a problem if Lineker does not rediscover his finishing touch and the team as a whole lacks subtlety and imagination .
26 Salt concentrations near the surface may make them especially inhospitable to vegetation ; only the soils of damper areas , in which salts are distributed evenly or concentrated at depth , are likely to support plant propagules .
27 Among the birds , body-armour is absent for the obvious reason that it would make them too heavy to fly .
28 This may be clever and amusing , but you will have to decide whether it would make them too obscure for your students .
29 You can make them too .
30 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 .
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