Example sentences of "make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Munich , Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain made enthralling reading in the Manchester but what Mr Douglas remembers was the spirit of friendship offered by the school towards the refugees of the Spanish Civil War and Hitler 's Germany . |
| 2 | Other services — like the police and fire brigade — do not make administrative sense in smaller areas . |
| 3 | Would it not make administrative sense if at least part of this site could be reserved specifically for the British Library so that in any future extension , these units could be incorporated ? |
| 4 | Bake with mushrooms and serve with creamy mashed potato for an easy , delicious comfort meal which can make dinner-party fare , too , for discerning guests . |
| 5 | Local authorities , however , faced with the need to make the most effective use of school buildings and staff , did not make parental choice the paramount consideration . |
| 6 | However they will understand the difficulties of using such an unpredictable material as wood , and make due allowance for minor defects . |
| 7 | It was found that some of the Scottish women made outstanding progress in French language as a result of this approach . |
| 8 | A society consisting of educated people , like a society of healthy people , made economic sense . |
| 9 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 10 | Another place of worship was built in 1828 for the Methodists but as attendances dwindled in the 1970s it was decided to share with Christ church , a facility which made economic sense . |
| 11 | It also made economic sense , he said . |
| 12 | It made economic sense . |
| 13 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 14 | The repository would make extensive use of cement and concrete as ‘ engineered ’ barriers . |
| 15 | The objective of the course provision is to produce office professionals who can make extensive use of technology but who are able to accept responsibility and operate heuristically as well as technically within organisational systems . |
| 16 | Patten also announced that he would make extensive use of enhanced capping powers in 1991 . |
| 17 | It was anticipated , however , that at least during the first stage Gorbachev would make extensive use of emergency powers , granted to him in September , to introduce reforms by presidential decree . |
| 18 | At the other extreme , very even updating patterns would mean that most blocks or even every block required to be read and such a pattern would therefore make skip-sequential processing pointless . |
| 19 | Paddy Ashdown would certainly agree with Peter Mandelson that the ‘ nudging and winking ’ during the final week of the campaign about a Lib-Lab arrangment made Labour look weak and muddled and John Major principled . |
| 20 | Mine does n't make that noise now |
| 21 | As it turned out he did n't make that phone call until the evening and they found a call-box outside a pub in one of the villages , for Great-Uncle Hilbert 's phone had been disconnected . |
| 22 | Did you make that mess there ? |
| 23 | For the only reason Cara would make that contact was , she knew , if Barney was worse . |
| 24 | He means that there is a gene which , if it is present in an animal of a given species , along with all the other genes and environmental circumstances characteristic of that species , will make that animal somewhat more likely to do X. Then , if doing X causes an increase in the number of copies of the gene in the population , the gene will spread . |
| 25 | And I was told that he was going to die shortly , and that if I wished , the measures that they were using with the respirator could be removed at my request , because he was in a terminal stage ; it was just a matter of time , and I really felt that I could n't make that decision myself . |
| 26 | I , I s I ca n't , I ca n't make that decision . |
| 27 | Software for Free has been written especially to help you make that decision without having to plough through mountains of Shareware and Public Domain Software first . |
| 28 | Industrial Tribunals may make that decision but the Islington Council certainly is n't going to . |
| 29 | Yes sir , county council could make that decision , it would first though have to consider a report from the education committee , under the education act . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't make that decision for you , ’ he said raggedly . |