Example sentences of "and [pron] [noun] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may seem paradoxical , but New Historicism 's acknowledgement of a great complexity and subtlety between text and history and its hesitancy to make generalised claims for a culture has so far produced critical analysis of texts which tend to be recognisably similar to one another . |
| 2 | The first of the Commission 's recommendations concerning the compulsory education of deaf and dumb children was naturally welcomed by deaf and dumb people , but the Commission 's preference for oralism and its failure to make any recommendation for higher education caused deep disappointment . |
| 3 | But Flora Thompson was simply a gentle recorder of her own not very exciting life : the beauty of her book lies in the skill of the writing and her ability to make everyday events of interest to her reader . |
| 4 | She did not encourage competition and her expression made that plain . |
| 5 | He was a merry young man and yet , quite firm in his discipline , so that the child was eager to please him and her education made rapid strides . |
| 6 | I was rather devastated when she told me she was moving to Crieff , as she made major contributions to the work of the Library here ; she had a long-term future , and her personality made many friends for the Library among our users . |
| 7 | Alison Mitchell , senior social worker , adult services , Staffordshire SSD : ‘ It will help both the client and their carer to make real choices to meet their respective needs ’ . |
| 8 | Few of their recommendations help reduce the uplands conflict and their document makes little contribution to the uplands debate . |
| 9 | Savage Orc shamans are renowned for their extraordinary powers and their ability to make magic potions . |
| 10 | Though soon to be exposed to Nazi atrocities as returning soldiers and the world 's press became free to speak , he enjoyed the feeling of being on the winning side , of seeing his country 's troops and their allies making strong progress across Europe . |
| 11 | The old people gaped silently , whilst Zimmerman and his wife made incoherent noises . |
| 12 | Both his uncle and his mother made substantial loans to the new firm , which was already engaged in a large contract for John Bibby & Sons . |
| 13 | Fred MacMurray was easy-going and a pleasure to work with ; Herbert Marshall was , as usual , his British self and a great actor ; Edgar Bergen and his dummy made great fun of everything they encountered , and it was an experience to see the manipulation and ventriloquism involved in the Bergen-McCarthy act . |
| 14 | Thus in many African " marriage " institutions , in their traditional form , the husband and his kin made substantial payments in cattle to the male kin of the bride . |
| 15 | With regard to access to Art as a subject in the school curriculum , the Head of Department pointed out that he and his colleagues made special provision for some pupils , asking it if was generally known that pupils who opted not to do Art ( i.e. whose option choices precluded Art ) could still do it after school as an additional subject and that we do get some of them through ( verified note of meeting ) . |
| 16 | Although de Gaulle recognized as much , he and his regime made little progress in that direction , and it is surely too simplistic to lay the entire blame for this failure at Pompidou 's door ( as the General 's admirers are inclined to do ) . |
| 17 | It is typical of the right hon. Gentleman and his party to make different noises in different places . |
| 18 | He and his dealers made good money before selling out . |
| 19 | The research aims to describe how people sell on the telephone , how they sell successfully , and what factors make certain calls more successful than others . |