Example sentences of "[noun prp] be make a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computer Associates International Inc president Charles Wang and Sun Microsystems Inc president Scott McNealy are to make a joint announcement today ( Monday ) , and were keeping tight-lipped as we went to press . |
| 2 | The state of Texas is making a substantial contribution , and about $1.7 billion is expected from foreign partners . |
| 3 | At the time my feeling was that David was making a conscious decision to become big .. |
| 4 | Despite its bid for attention , it failed to obtain Minton an ARA , a disappointment that may have been enhanced by the fact that this year Rodrigo Moynihan was made a full Academician . |
| 5 | Scotland is making a strong contribution to this study and the final conference on the theme is to be held here next year . |
| 6 | The fall is real enough ( remembering my earlier distinction between real and literal , p. 36 ) , and to take out the story of Adam and Eve is to make a terrible hole in the gospel . |
| 7 | Second , the furore obscured the fact that Velikovsky was making an important point : catastrophes have occurred in the past . |
| 8 | Nick Stogdon is making a first appearance , as is Bob Light from Santa Barbara . |
| 9 | Pickering Methodist Church member Peter Robinson is making a second visit to Albania in May taking 200 mattresses and clothing collected in the Ryedale area . |
| 10 | As ACCOUNTANCY goes to press , Charterail is making a last ditch attempt to find more funding and reopen negotiations with BR . |
| 11 | Annexed to British India in the 19th century , Burma was made a separate dependency in 1937 and became independent , outside the Commonwealth , as the Union of Burma in 1948 . |
| 12 | Now , however , four days later , having escaped into Austria himself , Loehr was making a final attempt to surrender his forces to the British , saying that he was not longer able to control the movement northwards into Austria either of his own German troops , or of a huge column of Croat troops and civilian refugees advancing from Zagreb on the frontier town of Dravograd , south-east of Klagenfurt . |
| 13 | Williams was making a thinly-disguised attack on the French authorities who , according to captain Naas Botha , ‘ certainly made our stay something of a learning experience ’ . |
| 14 | In 1815 , after 400 years of domination by many European powers , Luxembourg was made a Grand Duchy . |
| 15 | Long ago , in the heyday of Cambridge English , Richards was making a similar distinction between the ‘ critical ’ and the ‘ technical ’ : ‘ All remarks as to the ways and means by which experiences arise or are brought about are technical , but critical remarks are about the values of experiences and the reasons for regarding them as valuable , or not valuable . ’ |
| 16 | Marubeni was to make a definite decision on whether it would carry the Axil workstation products depending on reaction at the show . |
| 17 | READING chairman John Madejski is to make an official complaint about referee Clive Wilkes after he sent off one Reading player and booked five . |
| 18 | Palmer is making a clean break with the past in many ways , and in an interview with Digital News & Review magazine , he takes issue with Ken Olsen 's dismissal of Unix as ‘ Russian trucks and snake oil ’ . |
| 19 | To secure continuity , there must be a clear case that the LEA is making a valuable contribution to the local economy . |
| 20 | Bill Pedler was made an Honorary Member but was never to be quite the force he was prewar . |
| 21 | CIVIC leaders from Middlesbrough 's twin Zimbabwean town of Masvengo are making a two-week trip to the UK next month . |
| 22 | Some of the aircraft from blockbuster films like Aces High and Indiana Jones are making a special appearance at an airshow . |
| 23 | Gresham 's made a promising start with contributions from Ivor Crampsie , Alistair Ponder and Hugh Semple but slumped from 131/3 to 169 at the hands of Ashley Cowan ( 4/33 ) and Richard Wilson ( 4/36 ) . |
| 24 | Gloucestershire cricketer , David ’ Syd ’ Lawrence is making a last-ditch attempt to get back to full fitness after his knee injury . |
| 25 | But Mercury is making a slow start . |
| 26 | David Platt is making a brave fist of replacing Alan McInally — his goal , brilliantly struck from an angle after he had gone round Peter Shilton , was his fifth this season — but he cut a solitary , composed figure in a side bereft of confidence and quality . |
| 27 | Pick Systems Inc , Irvine , California is making a serious drive into the Russian market , says Constantin Stovolosov , head of the European office of Pick Systems in Moscow . |
| 28 | At the meeting Japan proposed that the annual PMC be made a regular forum for dialogue focused on regional security issues . |
| 29 | He took on the lectures , started by J. W. Hinchley [ q.v. ] in 1909 at Battersea Polytechnic , in 1917 when Hinchley was made an assistant professor at Imperial College . |
| 30 | This subject bred its share of Middle Eastern coffee-shop rumours , as for example in April 1984 , when a London newspaper — citing unidentified Gulf sources — reported that Iran was making a nuclear bomb , to be available two years later . |