Example sentences of "[pron] makes [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To take in the Napa Valley there is the Wine Train which makes two trips a day ; the wines , are , of course , plentiful and varied . |
| 2 | When its heroine , Dorothea , first entertains the illusion that marriage to Mr Casaubon will confer upon the everyday-the aspect of great things , she makes one exception to the frustration of her efforts as a single woman to lead a significant life in that period in England : ‘ I do n't feel sure about doing good in any way now ; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I do n't know ; — unless it were building good cottages — there can be no doubt about that . ’ |
| 3 | Because in that paper there is a passage where Trivers says , if my theory is right , and basically it 's this Trivers Willard thing he was talking about , that parents and offspring will be in conflict about parental investment , he says , if my theory is right and if parents discriminate investment on the basis of offspring success , then he makes two predictions . |
| 4 | Against this background he makes two remarks about children : |
| 5 | On which he makes two statements : first , that we are unmoved by it ; second , that it is a tragedy , especially to the eight-year-old son . |
| 6 | Editor , — Nicholas Wald rightly emphasises the importance and the ethical nature of randomised multicentre prevention trials , but he makes two statements that can not go unchallenged . |
| 7 | He makes two points : one , that they are as numerous proportionately in Edinburgh as in London , but in Scottish towns more plentiful than in comparable English locations ; and two , on the whole he finds them more quiet , and modest . |
| 8 | He makes forty contacts . |
| 9 | Sam figures he makes three pigs a year . |
| 10 | It makes fifty pound though cheap does n't it you know |
| 11 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 12 | None the less it makes two features of long-term insurance policies very clear . |
| 13 | What makes one organisation more successful than another ? |
| 14 | Before explaining how to tackle a course race it is worth looking at what makes one sailor go faster than another . |