Example sentences of "[pers pn] makes [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She makes sure morning coffee and beverages get to the outbuildings on campus , then organises staff for special functions that day , checking they have all they need on the trolleys for the VC 's or PVC 's lunches . |
| 2 | Sandie , who met Freddie when she was an 18-year-old dancer on his show , smiled broadly as he quipped : ‘ The real reason I 'm leaving my wife is she makes lousy coffee . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But she makes nice chocolate cake and she 's handy when the cook 's on holiday , ’ she admitted as she examined her face in the shine . |
| 4 | His description of how he watched helplessly as one of the deadly missiles thundered towards him makes chilling reading . |
| 5 | Al Gore falls asleep as he makes maiden speech as Vice-President ; no-one notices — they 're all asleep too . |
| 6 | The PLAYER stands with huge , terrible eyes , clutches at the wound as the blade withdraws : he makes small weeping sounds and falls to his knees , and then right down : While he is dying , GUIL , nervous , high , almost hysterical , wheels on the TRAGEDIANS ) If we have a destiny , then so had he — and if this is ours , then that was his — and if there are no explanation for us , then let there be none for him ( The TRAGEDIANS watch the PLAYER die : they watch with some interest . |
| 7 | Ashton does something similar in Symphonic Variations where he makes overall phrase rhythms from pas de burrée en place accompanied by very distinctive ports de bras . |
| 8 | Shortly after , he makes correct use of grammatical particles such as ‘ do ’ and , let us say , the whole auxiliary system of English , and does so across the board , that is , in questions , assertions , negations , etc . |
| 9 | He makes good progress until he reaches the cornice , which promptly rejects him in a cascade of cold , powdery ice . |
| 10 | He makes slow progress through the afternoon sunshine , leaning on a gnarled stick that seems to blend invisibly into his arthritic banana-curved fingers . |
| 11 | Finally , he makes considerable use of ‘ natural experiments ’ , the sociological , or in this case literary , device , of studying those natural contrasts which crop up from time to time . |
| 12 | He makes heavy use of what may be called the Argument from Personal Incredulity . |
| 13 | You must prod him with coloured pencils , or tell him he must be joking when he makes heavy weather of something that another author does neatly . |
| 14 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 15 | It is just that the structure of the viral RNA happens to be such that it makes cellular machinery chum out copies of itself . |
| 16 | It makes practical sense to train suitable spokesmen . |
| 17 | It makes economic sense , particularly if the prospectus is printed commercially , to run off a substantial number at one time . |
| 18 | With club rates varying from £50–£90 per hour depending on which part of the country you reside in , it makes economic sense if you can afford it to join a group — or perhaps if a little more of the folding stuff is available , to buy your own small PFA type or microlight . |
| 19 | In such circumstances he needs all the help that it makes economic sense to provide . |
| 20 | If , for whatever reason , a husband initially commands higher rates of pay than his wife it makes economic sense for him to ‘ specialize ’ in paid work and let her shoulder the brunt of the partnership 's unpaid chores ( Becker , 1981 , 1985 ; for a critique see Owen , 1987 ) . |
| 21 | He says there are a number of ecological as well as economic reasons — it 's a longer , stronger tougher fibre — it makes a longer-lasting paper and it makes economic sense to grow the material in this country rather than importing it . |
| 22 | It makes superb cheese on toast because it melts very easily . |
| 23 | If a firm raises 1 million from issuing a bond with a coupon of 10 per cent , it makes annual interest payments of 100,000 at a net cost to itself of 65,000 per annum ( i.e. 100,000 ( 1 -0.35 ) ) . |
| 24 | It makes great play when the saints ' days of Scotland , Wales and Ireland are due , but St George 's Day is forgotten . |
| 25 | And it makes great reading … |
| 26 | It makes unarguable sense to concentrate materials purchases as much as is commercially desirable and to obtain supplies from as few sources as possible . |
| 27 | Like the 1944 Act , it makes religious education compulsory , together with religious worship that will normally be ‘ broadly Christian ’ in character . |
| 28 | It makes fascinating reading , commencing with the work of British businessmen who pioneered the game in their adopted country . |
| 29 | ‘ It makes perfect sense . |
| 30 | It makes perfect sense that old , disabled and non-adult persons should be excluded from the reference of this phrase , but no sense that women should be excluded — unless the word adult really means adult male . |