Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb -s] make a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In general terms , any group of people wishing to carry on business under English law has to make a choice between three distinct legal forms of organisation , the company , the partnership and a hybrid known as the limited partnership .
2 My right hon. Friend has made a number of important points about the changes that will be necessary if European monetary union is not to do the country enormous damage .
3 My hon. Friend has made a sound point .
4 If the hon. Gentleman wants to make a speech about the constituency of Midlothian , he will have to do a lot more homework than he did tonight .
5 He said : ‘ If the Scottish Secretary wishes to make a statement then he should do so openly and publicly and not allow his young office staff to brief members of the press off the record .
6 To assess whether diagnostic imaging of pyloric stenosis has made a difference in rapidity of diagnosis , duration of pre-operative hydration , and length of stay in hospital .
7 Hodge commented in a letter to Goodfellow , ‘ The old man has made a lot of unfortunate statements … he wants to set up separate government now and drive Russians out …
8 But the tall Welshman aims to make a Eubank-Piper conflict equally appealing .
9 When this happens the authoritative directive does make a difference .
10 MEANWHILE , at least one Tory MP has made a packet out of the campaign .
11 But this arrangement means that the baby , when it first emerges from her genital opening has to make a marathon journey .
12 Each succeeding generation has made a guy in the semblance of somebody they did n't care for .
13 Proving that a contravention has occurred , even if only on the balance of probabilities , will not be easy , nor will demonstrating that an alleged miscreant has made a profit as a result of his contravention .
14 If he is unlucky , then there will be a battle at sea , and the best he can hope for is that none of our sea-borne army manages to make a landing .
15 Erm y'know that that sort of thing when they when they y'know when they might be , when they feel when they feel that some some other bloke 's making an approach to them , when they feel that er y'know erm somebody finds them attractive , when they think that some other bloke has made a pass at them or something like that y'know they sort of react in a hostile way but y'know there 's that suspicion that mm er y'know kind of er it 's because they 're insecure about their masculinity , it 's because they feel threatened or something like that .
16 The Federal Assembly has made a mess of the country 's name , rejecting the Czecho-Slovakia with a hyphen and finally agreeing on the Czech and Slovak Federated Republic ( CFSR ) .
17 The written call having the low exercise price starts to make a loss before the purchased call starts to make a profit .
18 During those sixty seconds of biological time , Modern Man has made a rubbish tip of Paradise .
19 They argue new laws are needed as modern technology has made a mockery of the 1959 Obscene Publications Act with violent pornography easily ordered by telephone or beamed in by satellite , making enforcement of the law almost impossible .
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