Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is not possible for those who are weak to apply this soul force for it makes great demands on those who would use it .
2 In spite of my appeals for him to make some effort to intervene with the King , who could often attain success with a father bent on violent punishment , Kareem dismissed my cries of alarm with unconcealed irritation and insisted the subject be dropped .
3 Slide Sorter view is also a good place in which to make global changes .
4 The traditional incremental approach is one in which last year 's expenditure provides a base from which to make minor adjustments ( disjointed incrementalism ) .
5 The body mass index is a convenient measure on which to make this judgment .
6 These are the potters , the females of which make small jars in which they deposit an egg together with a paralysed spider or caterpillar to provide the hatching grub with its first meal of meat .
7 Not one word of it made any sense at all to him .
8 In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end .
9 Obviously a figure higher than that would take some pressure of us to make those incursions into the green belt , a lower figure conversely would require us to make higher la larger incursions into our greenbelt .
10 When we consider the dominance of collectivism as an explanation of what makes Japanese experience unique , we do need to emphasize that this is not simply a characteristic of Western or American writing , but many Japanese social scientists have echoed this explanation in their attempts to identify the sources of consensus in Japanese society .
11 It is an ideal opportunity to play constructively together and a useful way for everyone to make new friends .
12 But , even when people have had spells of very bad illness , they may still live for many years and there will be time for them to make good plans for their children .
13 I would have sworn there had n't been time for you to make any kind of progress since last night .
14 ‘ Darling Ruth , if you do n't know how I feel about you now , you never will , but now is n't the time for us to make rash statements as we did in Seville .
15 Is this flying in the face of what makes good cinema ? ’
16 Man works far below his capacity ; some writers have put a figure on the deficiency but it is of little value to you to make quantitative estimates .
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