Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] make [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This is called the imprest , and out of this he or she makes all small payments .
2 All the changes that were made underlined trends already evident before Fulton reported and none made any basic difference to the civil service .
3 And they make those horrible shoe box they were open .
4 The MEPs ' constituencies are simply too huge , and they make any true representation of the needs and interests of individual voters impossible .
5 Mother asked him to come to Sunday lunch and he made some awful speech about not assuming , or something . ’
6 And he made another appalling imitation of the pheasant call .
7 More than 10 per cent of the turnover is in the African branch of his business and he makes regular flying visits to Nigeria .
8 Its lights flickered at random and it made odd beeping noises .
9 The new consumer durables ( TV , washing machines , refrigerators ) were much in demand , and it made sound economic sense to enjoy the use and benefit of such things at once and pay for them out of rising real incomes .
10 If the barriers to trade in the EEC are removed and it makes sound economic sense to do so , well and good .
11 Our guiding principle is that pupils with special educational needs should , as far as possible , have the opportunity to experience the full range of the English curriculum , but we make some broad recommendations for modifications to attainment targets , programmes of study and assessment arrangements which we feel may nevertheless be necessary .
12 At 5ft 10½ inches and 13 stone he was big for a winger but he made 29 Southern League appearances for us that season out of a maximum of 38 , and scored two valuable goals at Cardiff ( where we won 2–1 ) and at Swindon ( where we won 2–0 ) .
13 This last statement should be noticed — he disliked assemblies and places where speeches were made at length and he did not enjoy being a chairman — but he made this single exception , the Convocation of York ; he always gave a presidential address , about which he took much trouble .
14 In a period when ballooning was an activity only for itinerant showmen , any interest in flying invited ridicule , but he made several unsuccessful attempts to form a society to encourage aeronautical developments .
15 But it created a new kind of assignment , which was a legal assignment in the sense that the assignee might sue directly in his own name without making the assignor a party ; but it made certain special requirements :
16 This might be slightly bending the letter of the law in that the prospectus should be a single document but it makes good economic sense .
17 Its tone is playful and frivolous but it makes some valid criticisms .
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