Example sentences of "[pers pn] makes [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He makes some allegations which I ca n't understand . |
| 32 | Before he makes wild aspersions about other people , he should visit the school in his constituency , where he will find excellent education going on . |
| 33 | An example of this is the way that he makes big things seem really unimportant , and trivialities seem very important . |
| 34 | I 'm gon na , I 'm gon na get Scott tonight if he makes any comments and this fist is gon na go strop straight where it hurts . |
| 35 | Stand over him while he makes those calls . ’ |
| 36 | Sam figures he makes three pigs a year . |
| 37 | As the work proceeds she/he makes tentative decisions on what to do with each title , and in doing so obviously takes into account the amount of money shortly to be used for replenishing the stock . |
| 38 | The natural habitat is the coastal waters of West Africa between the Rivers Senegal and Congo , where it makes occasional excursions into freshwater . |
| 39 | He argued that education for understanding can only be regarded as successful to the extent that it makes behavioural outcomes unpredictable . |
| 40 | It makes young wines harsh and gives your mouth a dry and furry feeling . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | In the case of cathedrals , it makes increasing demands upon their resources , and the cost of their music is very high . |
| 43 | A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world . |
| 44 | It makes specific points under the section on schools : |
| 45 | In practice , unless you have a 486DX — it does not work quite like that because whenever the program is converting it makes such demands on the whole system that everything else is slowed up . |
| 46 | That argument has to rest on the principle that it makes other owners of Utterly Dependables feel better if everyone has one ! |
| 47 | None the less it makes two features of long-term insurance policies very clear . |
| 48 | It is least successful when it makes stereotypical assumptions about women : that they behave in certain ways because they are mothers , or because they do n't work outside the home , for example . |
| 49 | It makes good chips or if it 's dry fried . |
| 50 | Sometimes the bevel elbow is so crucial , it makes certain cuts impossible . |
| 51 | It generates paper in sickening profusion ; it makes unconscionable demands on the heroes of the piece , the thirteen or fourteen hundred volunteers drawn mainly from ‘ that two-handed engine ’ we pompously call the binary system of higher education … but with all its faults the system works . |
| 52 | and in empirical sorry and in in empirical work we tend to use these nonlinear demand functions simply because they have this nice property that they have constant elasticity , and it makes subsequent calculations considerably easier , and you may think in actual fact that linear demand curves are quite restrictive . |
| 53 | It makes several journeys through Spain : for example , there 's a four-day break , available May to October , taking a new high-speed train from Madrid to Seville , visiting Expo 92 , before making tracks on the Al Andalus through the Andalusian hills ( above ) for Cordoba and Granada . |
| 54 | It makes several recommendations about how to improve labelling . |
| 55 | It makes woman-centred feminists ' hypotheses about differences between women seem tokenistic . |
| 56 | A particular advantage of the telephone interview method is that it makes less demands on the time of managers than conventional ‘ face-to-face ’ interviews . |
| 57 | It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff . |
| 58 | Producing it makes considerable demands on an animal 's bodily resources and although the silk moth , encouraged by man 's selective breeding , extrudes it in large quantities , most insects are rather more sparing in their use of it . |
| 59 | The language of ‘ modernist ’ writing is , typically , difficult and challenging ; it makes considerable demands on the reader , and even greater demands on the critic . |
| 60 | TI says it has switched to a 0.7-micron process from 0.8 , and will be analysing product from every angle before it makes any declarations as to what it 's really getting . |