Example sentences of "makes an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee usually makes an interim report to the House in the following July . |
| 2 | Where a county court which is not a care centre makes an interim care or supervision order with a s37 direction for investigation , any application relating to the interim order must be made to a care centre and not the original county court . |
| 3 | ‘ Come un'ape ’ might have been replaced with something more apt for a bass voice ( Dandini really should be a baritone ) , and the newly-exhumed concert aria ‘ Alla voce della gloria ’ , though a fine showcase for the voice , makes an indifferent showing beside such gems as Alidoro 's ‘ Là del ciel ’ ( also from Cenerentola ) . |
| 4 | It is a fatal error to assume that lowering the price makes an indifferent product saleable to a general market . |
| 5 | The 6′4″ left-handed beanpole makes an intimidating figure as he shouts at officials , abuses his racket and sulks on his stool , threatening to strike . |
| 6 | One primary head makes an annual visit to local playgroups to present each child with a balloon , a colouring book , some crayons and a school prospectus . |
| 7 | The Lay Observer makes an annual report to Parliament . |
| 8 | The management company makes an initial investment charge when it sells a unit to an investor and makes an annual charge on the value of the fund . |
| 9 | Frequently seen at rallies in the Coventry area , Geoff makes an annual pilgrimage to Holland with the Armstrong Siddeley owners club . |
| 10 | She disdains his odious advances , and makes an inspiring speech on the glorious revolutionary future . |
| 11 | The firm says its key target is persuading busy young mums that Spam makes an easy meal in minutes . |
| 12 | It makes an illuminating contrast having Ives 's much more idiosyncratic setting of At the River as well as Copland 's . |
| 13 | Demonstration of this point makes an illuminating cookery/chemistry lesson . |
| 14 | If the mens rea of a crime is intention , then the defendant who makes an honest mistake has no mens rea and is therefore not guilty . |
| 15 | Frank Bruno ( left ) makes an honest woman of Laura — know what we mean ? |
| 16 | In Verbivore Decibel makes an oblique reference to Ingarden 's theory when she describes her own problematic existence : |
| 17 | She makes an obscene gesture . |
| 18 | ‘ With his business training and keen sense of duty , he makes an admirable country gentleman ; on all Boards , on all Committees , on all Councils , in politics , and generally in affairs , he is to be counted on and depended upon ; he brings an admirable sense of rectitude and a very kindly heart to bear on public business . |
| 19 | Whatever our position in society , the Kingdom makes an absolute demand ; we either seek it first or not at all ( Matt. |
| 20 | An arch makes an elegant feature out of an opening between two rooms . |
| 21 | In winter it makes an early morning crossing , returning in the late afternoon and allowing some six hours 2. shore in Porto Santo . |
| 22 | The regions of Spain are similarly in a kind of balance which makes an internal federalism possible . |
| 23 | Battery back-up units tend to be on the big side , but Emerson Computer Power also makes an internal version which comes with autosaving . |
| 24 | For example , the description of different sexual stratification systems , on which the theory rests , makes an appalling number of generalizations which can be falsified by a random search through the ethnographic literature . |
| 25 | In our steam locomotive comparison , the engine loses traction , or makes an expensive noise and stops . |
| 26 | As his 12-seater plane makes an unscheduled stop at a tiny atoll in the Marshall Islands , he spots that there are no tin roofs and lets the plane go on without him . |
| 27 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 28 | The signal detected by the stylus when it makes an electrical connection between the two sheets provides a measure of its position . |
| 29 | The signal detected by the stylus when it makes an electrical connection between the two sheets provides a sure of its position . |
| 30 | Reg Akehurst 's charge was a firm favourite for that contest and gave his backers not the slightest hint of a scare when leading at the furlong pole to score by a length-and-a-half. way off the pace makes an accurate assessment of his progress very difficult for the handicapper , but this observer is convinced there is significant improvement still to come . |