Example sentences of "[pers pn] makes [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Before he makes wild aspersions about other people , he should visit the school in his constituency , where he will find excellent education going on . |
| 62 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 63 | An example of this is the way that he makes big things seem really unimportant , and trivialities seem very important . |
| 64 | If he makes any mistake no harsh remark is made , but quietly he is asked to go through again and point out such-and-such a sheep or goat which has been purposely hidden . |
| 65 | 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 . |
| 66 | Stand over him while he makes those calls . ’ |
| 67 | Sam figures he makes three pigs a year . |
| 68 | He makes more mess in his bedroom than she does and his is because , not only is it all papers and books and toys and everything else , it 's all his clothes as well . |
| 69 | It 's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage . |
| 70 | 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 . |
| 71 | It is just that the structure of the viral RNA happens to be such that it makes cellular machinery chum out copies of itself . |
| 72 | The natural habitat is the coastal waters of West Africa between the Rivers Senegal and Congo , where it makes occasional excursions into freshwater . |
| 73 | It makes little sense , for example , to require that children have a command of formal vocabulary before they are competent in technical vocabulary or vice versa . |
| 74 | It makes little sense to describe everyone over the age of 60 or 65 as ‘ the elderly population ’ , or ‘ old people ’ . |
| 75 | The ability of modern technology to cope with the problem of soil erosion is summarised thus : ‘ Growing populations may in part have destroyed more land than they improved , but it makes little sense to project past trends into the future , since we know more and more about methods of land preservation and are able by means of modern methods , to reclaim much land , which our ancestors have made sterile . ’ |
| 76 | If Parliament wishes to create a specialist body to adjudicate in a given field , it makes little sense to have the decisions of that body reviewed by courts which have no such expertise . |
| 77 | His basic criticism of the system is that it makes little sense on the level of integrity because it makes only superficial sense of human desire and action and , therefore , only poor sense of human happiness . |
| 78 | There were , of course , flaws in Velikovsky 's reasoning : his imagined catastrophes were fanciful and , while it is all very well to derive clues from oral legends , it makes little sense to prefer these to properly researched results . |
| 79 | If so , it makes little sense to speak of ‘ authenticity ’ , though feminists might wish to celebrate women 's talk as an aspect of their resistance to oppression , a demonstration of skill and creativity with the limited materials at hand . |
| 80 | The test runs were also performed on a different machine so it makes little sense to compare timings . |
| 81 | Thus it makes little sense to refer to ‘ immigrant ’ communities ; what we now have are minority black British communities , that have already made a very substantial contribution to the growth and prosperity of the British economy . |
| 82 | There is a sense in which standing is a preliminary question , separate from that of the substance and merits of the applicant 's case : standing rules determine entitlement to raise and argue the issue of illegality , and it makes little sense to say that entitlement to argue the merits of the case depends on whether one has a good case on the merits . |
| 83 | Thinking requires prior knowledge and learning — it makes little sense to reinvent the wheel — but too much emphasis on learning what has been the case can inhibit the growth of thinking about how to do things in unusual and interesting ways . |
| 84 | For , it is argued , it makes little sense to worry about the possibility of repetitiveness and reduplication with regard to the world " in itself " if we can establish the historical uniqueness of particulars in relation to ourselves . |
| 85 | While it makes little sense to talk of criticism of the physical world , it makes every sense to talk of criticism turned on to the theories and concepts which science has produced to explain the external world , for they could certainly be other than they are.8 Unfortunately , we sometimes give the impression in science and technological education that the current models , terms and theories of science are given and have merely to be assimilated by students . |
| 86 | A person may belong to several different families during his life , and it makes little sense to regard him as changing identity on leaving or entering a nuclear family . |
| 87 | For instance , for a binary outcome variable , such as recurrence of disease or death , it makes little sense to display group means and CIs of explanatory variables such as age or dose . |
| 88 | Though in the longterm , as I have said before , he wrote , it makes little difference , the tide always wins out , sooner or later all vanishes into the sea . |
| 89 | However , if one turns to the report 's tables , based on a growth in energy demand of between 1 and 2 per cent a year , it makes little difference whether gas or coal is the main fuel used to produce electricity . |
| 90 | And the bleak conclusion is that it makes little difference whether the intruding whites are well- or ill-intentioned : the result , for the Indians , is disease and destruction . |