Example sentences of "make [pron] [adj] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Lévi-Strauss accepted the traditional role of anthropology to ‘ explain' the differences of alien cultures in ways that make them recognisable as the same ‘ underneath ’ . |
2 | Both Albert Cavalcanti , the onetime head of the GPO Film Unit whose Brazilian origins had made him unacceptable as a civil servant , and Watt joined the tight group of filmmakers Balcon had gathered round him at Ealing . |
3 | But it also made him invaluable as an occasional centre-forward . |
4 | William Thaw , the first to get a commission , had owned a hydroplane while still at Yale , which made him acceptable as a French bomber pilot . |
5 | All of which explains why the BJP is scrambling to make itself presentable as a possible government . |
6 | Robin Williams has precisely the driving , egomaniacal but mischievous quality which makes him believable as a grown-up Peter Pan . |
7 | ‘ I also want to make it clear as a private individual that I cam do nothing to stop them . ’ |