Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] make a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To select the preferred party we will need final offer prices , terms and conditions which will mean having to provide the short listed parties with the further information necessary for them to make a firm offer . |
| 2 | Leeds eventually managed to score in the 85th minute , when Cantona pounced on a Lee Chapman nod-down , but by then it was far too late for them to make a miraculous recovery . |
| 3 | After the miscarriage Dr Rollerson , Maud 's father , had insisted on paying for them to make an extended tour of Europe , so that Maud could regain her health , and James 's dream of a permanent post at St Bartholomew 's Hospital was indefinitely postponed . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was this , the fact that she now had someone else to love her , that made it possible for me to make a proper apology , to stutter out confusedly , red-faced , that I was sorry about what had happened . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's difficult for me to make an honest judgement because … |
| 6 | No doubt the whole neighbourhood 's waiting for me to make an honest woman of you . " |
| 7 | Nevertheless that blip was long enough for someone to make a tidy profit . |
| 8 | The two of them make a right pair , sending messages , leaving notes you look at this , now ! ’ |
| 9 | After a few half-hearted sips , one of them made a great show of looking at his watch , and put his glass down . |
| 10 | Foreigners always find that a difficult process — in fact only one of them made a real success of it — and Disraeli possessed what Ezra had been denied — the elasticity and toughness of a good Jew . |
| 11 | The Minster had the gruffest basso but the others were undeterred and the whole tribe of them made a tremendous clangour . |
| 12 | None of them made a special selection of materials suitable for the peasantry , so the few books that were dispatched were often too dry or too expensive . |
| 13 | Two senior research officers at the Home Office were also invited , and one of them made an excellent contribution . |
| 14 | ‘ You can not go out at night without one of them making an obscene remark or getting his tackle out . |
| 15 | Why not use some of them to make a lovely flower arrangement . |
| 16 | There was no doubting that this young relative of his made a fine figure of a man , he thought , as he announced that he was going upstairs to change for dinner . |
| 17 | The optic tract projects to a number of anatomically distinct regions in the brainstem , each of which makes a unique contribution to visual function . |
| 18 | ‘ If she acknowledges her fault , ’ said Yussuf , with the air of one making a great concession , ‘ then I will take her back . ’ |
| 19 | Because you have your own ideas of what makes a perfect kitchen , our specialist furniture designers offer you almost limitless design options . |
| 20 | This is due not so much to positive resistance on the part of the incumbent civil servants , as to their preconceptions of what makes a suitable candidate for the higher Civil Service . |
| 21 | The ½in dowels are inserted into this framing to create a grill to keep the mice out of what makes an inviting nesting box . |
| 22 | Some of us made a final effort and formed Feminist Audio Books — a library exclusively providing audiotapes of feminist writing for blind and partially-sighted women and women with reading difficulties . |
| 23 | Actually , Cliff , our computer simulation suggests that , in the unlikely event of your making a nude video , Britain would sigh , ‘ Oh dear , the poor old boy 's been a bit of a git . ’ |
| 24 | Your employer might be willing to purchase an annuity for you to make a one-off lump sum in commutation of your pension rights . |
| 25 | If you are receiving Housing Benefit help with your rent at the moment there is no need for you to make a further claim for help with the Poll Tax . |
| 26 | ‘ Without intimate knowledge of the business , it would have been easy for you to make an unintentional slip . |
| 27 | It 's a big guitar , 16″ wide across the body and just over 4¾″ deep at the bottom bout , and with handsome-looking wood and satin-finished lacquer throughout it makes an immediate impression . |
| 28 | Besides your making a public fool of him ? ’ |
| 29 | Five floors below , somebody is sounding off as the traffic before them makes a slow start at the lights . |
| 30 | It could be that insufficient information was available upon which to make a correct decision . |