Example sentences of "and [pron] makes [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The detailed administration of applications is handled by a full-time Modular Admissions Officer who draws on clerical support from within the Registry and who makes substantial use of the central computer services . |
| 2 | And who makes that decision where we should go ? |
| 3 | And who makes that decision ? |
| 4 | And most of it is erm whether one and one makes two or not . |
| 5 | you 're given about four or five years to play with one and one makes two , Yes he 's doing |
| 6 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 7 | I have a friend who runs a company in Portsmouth called Bodyline and he makes all my leotards . |
| 8 | And he makes that as well . |
| 9 | More than 10 per cent of the turnover is in the African branch of his business and he makes regular flying visits to Nigeria . |
| 10 | He stands alone — as Kenneth Clarke or David Ennals will confirm — and he makes few friends . |
| 11 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 12 | There is a sense in which standing is a preliminary question , separate from that of the substance and merits of the applicant 's case : standing rules determine entitlement to raise and argue the issue of illegality , and it makes little sense to say that entitlement to argue the merits of the case depends on whether one has a good case on the merits . |
| 13 | A person may belong to several different families during his life , and it makes little sense to regard him as changing identity on leaving or entering a nuclear family . |
| 14 | And it makes great reading … |
| 15 | I can suggest three such general features : heredity is digital , it involves a phenotype-genotype distinction , and it makes possible the amplification of quantum events into macroscopic ones . |
| 16 | European manufacturers invariably make plain tiles alongside their interlocking tiles , and it makes good sense for a manufacturer to be able to offer both types of product . |
| 17 | Skills that he wishes to rehearse with them may be part of the programme of another department also , and it makes good sense to have some consultation and perhaps co-ordination . |
| 18 | Have it written as a P E P and it makes good sense . |
| 19 | I 've never been used to doing that and it makes such a lot of difference when you actually speak to the people . |
| 20 | He says there are a number of ecological as well as economic reasons — it 's a longer , stronger tougher fibre — it makes a longer-lasting paper and it makes economic sense to grow the material in this country rather than importing it . |
| 21 | and in empirical sorry and in in empirical work we tend to use these nonlinear demand functions simply because they have this nice property that they have constant elasticity , and it makes subsequent calculations considerably easier , and you may think in actual fact that linear demand curves are quite restrictive . |
| 22 | To this need the underclass responds , and it makes urban life at the comfortable levels of well-being not only pleasant but possible . |
| 23 | It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff . |
| 24 | If the barriers to trade in the EEC are removed and it makes sound economic sense to do so , well and good . |
| 25 | And it makes obvious sense to say that autonomous institutions are not necessarily homes of academic freedom . |
| 26 | What is different about the pied flycatcher , and what makes this species so interesting , is that the male achieves his bigamy by deceit . |