Example sentences of "[verb] make a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LITTLE Adele Wragg has made a heartbreaking public appeal in a desperate bid to save her mother 's life . |
| 2 | One group of pirates has made a small add-on circuit board which makes it easier to copy ROM cartridges . |
| 3 | Deguchi has made a detailed quantitative analysis of stimulated Raman backward scattering for the astrophysical conditions . |
| 4 | Times have changed — and got greener — so that some typical decorations like coral are no longer acceptable , while style and fashion has made a good-looking living picture in your lounge far more important than the simple challenge of keeping pet fish alive . |
| 5 | Shares in Bennett & Fountain will hit a fresh low for this year on Monday after an out-of-hours announcement last night that ‘ the group has made a significant pre-tax loss for the year to 30 June ’ , due to difficulties in the retail division . |
| 6 | Where the defendant has made a voluntary interim payment before proceedings , the plaintiff must still plead the whole of his claim including any special damage for expense paid for by the interim payment . |
| 7 | He is typically a former street trader or motorcycle messenger who wants to make a quick easy fortune . |
| 8 | Helped by Mr Jorge Vicente , they have spent many years sorting and cataloguing the 100,000-plus glass negatives , and further collections from other old photography studios have been added to make a complete photographic history of the island and those who visited it . |
| 9 | The controversy over ordinary and honours degree pathways was to smoulder between CASS and CST , and the CASS pressure for the ending of the policy was countered consistently by CST with the argument that in science and technology it was appropriate to have two types of course , and that in general it considered students with lower abilities and attainments were more suitably educated ‘ in courses specially designed to make a different intellectual demand ’ . |
| 10 | President Roh Tae Woo made a three-day official visit to Japan on May 24-26 , during which he met the Japanese Prime Minister , Toshiki Kaifu , and Emperor Akihito . |
| 11 | He 'd made a super little dart across the line of Forest defenders . |
| 12 | Asmodeus prepared to make a substantial octave-raising munch . |
| 13 | Since different molecules absorb different colours , this microscope can be used to make a microscopic chemical analysis of the surface . |
| 14 | To his surprise , he discovered that what was needed to make a powerful political speech was not the same gift as that which was needed to make a powerful sermon . |
| 15 | Third , the right was needed to make a clear public rejection of the Tsarist record and to combat Great Russian chauvinism . |
| 16 | He said , " You 've really got to make a big speaking sound . " |
| 17 | So say F. Occhionero , P. santangelo and Vittorio , of the University of Rome , who have been inspired to make a new theoretical study of cosmological voids by the observational discovery of large regions of space devoid of galaxies ( New Scientist , vol |
| 18 | Slowly , common turns of speech , and thereby common turns of thought , are adopted , and the member drifts into conservatism without having made a conscious political choice . |
| 19 | This is in spite of the scientific advisory committee of its own research foundation having made a unanimous public statement that they believe smoking is a causative factor in several major diseases . |
| 20 | A FINE AIRCRAFT , which would have made a good strategic bomber . |
| 21 | He wondered if he 'd have made a good interior designer . |
| 22 | He was always so quick witted and courageous was John that I always thought he would have made a good secret agent — a James Bond kind of figure . |
| 23 | His language would have made a Chief Petty Officer blush … |
| 24 | He would have made a great dramatic actor . |
| 25 | It would have made a compact little home except it was painted dark brown like the corridors . |
| 26 | The segments of lemon embedded in clear apple jelly must have made a ravishing little dessert dish : |
| 27 | His Arctic voyage was subsequently prolonged to make a complete anti-clockwise circumnavigation of the American continent , via Cape Horn , a voyage completed in the summer of 1979 . |
| 28 | Since these are questions of fact a decision-maker would have to make a full contextual analysis before reaching a decision . |
| 29 | That management proposal was accepted by all members of the family as well as the guardian ad litem and the justices were effectively being asked to make a straightforward interim order by consent . |
| 30 | Mr Clarke unknowingly stole the thunder of Douglas Hurd , the Home Secretary , who had been intending to make a veiled public appeal for more cash for the police services in the law and order debate . |