Example sentences of "[noun sg] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Does the interview with the Admiral make any difference to anything ? ’ |
| 2 | The price , to a cheetah , of growing larger leg muscles is all the other things that the cheetah could have done with the materials and energy used to make the leg muscles , for instance make more milk for cubs . |
| 3 | Turner 's view that migrants move into the city slums and then out to the shanty towns , is not so much the case now since the large number of spontaneous housing settlements and the widespread knowledge of their existence make this sort of housing immediately available . |
| 4 | New ways of printing make unforeseen demands upon an old face , while at the same time giving the typographer scope to design problems away . |
| 5 | It has one central point of teaching and the details of the story make that point both clear and vivid . |
| 6 | As we have seen , the inheritance of wealth and educational advantage make this ideology of ‘ free competition for unequal reward ’ a very dubious claim , but in studying social mobility we are still comparing the actual amount of social mobility with the ideal of totally free movement through totally equal opportunity . |
| 7 | They will resort to secession only when national oppression and national friction make joint life absolutely intolerable . |
| 8 | Suppose the conventions of American practice make past decisions of the Supreme Court part of the law . |
| 9 | Conversely , indigenous politicians , who do not make explicit reference to the individual actor as having multiple points of view , may nevertheless in practice make considerable use of those multiple points of view that are implicit in the existence of different political factions . |
| 10 | According to the Conservative MP for Northampton South supermarkets on the continent make less profits … than their British couterparts . |
| 11 | The humble screen saver , which cause electric toasters to fly across the screen , or turns the tube into a virtual aquarium in order to prevent the WordStar menu getting burned into the phosphor when the machine is left on but unattended for long periods , is the latest battleground for the advertisers according to the Wall Street Journal , which reports that PC Dynamics Inc of Westlake Village , California is actually giving Everready free publicity for its Energizer Bunny because it wanted an animated character to spur interest in its program — so users are expected to pay $25 not only to advertise Everready batteries but to suffer the exasperating experience of having the damn rodent make special appearances , popping on screen in the middle of their work , so that they have to press a key to zap it . |
| 12 | Gold and silver make good friends in bad times |
| 13 | Versatile fleshy pinks , such as Estée Lauder 's muddy Early Pink or lighter Coral Shell ( from the new Signature Eyeshadow Triads ) ; Cosmetics à la Carte 's Pale Prawn and Dust matt eyeshadows , and the palest pink from Shiseido 's Rose Opal Triple Eye System compact make good bases for colour . |
| 14 | Suddenly The Orb make perfect sense . |
| 15 | Those who have little in-house capability make least use of consultancy services in all fields . |
| 16 | Radio and telly make great efforts — at least sometimes . |
| 17 | The existence of organisms still living after millenia make mere centenarians seem insignificant . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the identification of more common alterations such as p53 mutation or screening for a panel of genetic lesions , or both , may in future make genetic screening of stool samples a viable proposition . |
| 19 | Well yeah , er if I 'm training you , so prepared it , but , what am I , what have I , what I have to do as a trainer make sure saying ? |
| 20 | No matter how carefully an angled cut is made with a mitre box , the play of the blade in the groove and the limited adjustment make this method far from satisfactory . |
| 21 | Around Tregarron the climate and terrain make extra work . |
| 22 | It is vital to the understanding of company needs that those engineers responsible for design , development and manufacture make direct contact with the world of the user and the competitor in sufficient depth to have valid views on the market as it affects their tasks . |
| 23 | Above : A bridging until and fitted dressing table from Wickes ' Albury range make maximum use of the space available |
| 24 | Information to help top management make these decisions could be provided by the decision-support system . |
| 25 | It 's one I first came across in one of the handy little circular walk leaflets published by the National Parks and , though I generally like to devise my own routes , it 's a cracking walk and at ten miles of easy walking a good stroll for hot high summer day or days when low cloud and drizzle make high fell-walking a grey punishment . |
| 26 | If you 're never going to read those twenty-year-old management books collecting dust on your office shelf make some profit ( it 's always best to start in a small way ) by selling them to a secondhand bookshop . |
| 27 | New and simple techniques of rehydration make most deaths — except of the very young and old — preventable . |
| 28 | Russian and German make similar gender distinctions in the third-person singular pronouns and , like English , do not apply these distinctions to the third-person plural . |
| 29 | Two features of the present cultural climate make this element of conviction all the more necessary . |
| 30 | Could the Montreal Protocol process make further inroads into laboratory shelves ? |