Example sentences of "the [noun pl] make [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 2 | En route , the slavers make an early sale when Ian and two other prisoners are bought by the master of a galley ship . |
| 3 | During their researches , however , the Canadians made an important discovery . |
| 4 | The availability of legal aid to those unable to afford to pursue their legal rights in the courts made a practical reality of the access to justice to many who could not have afforded to do so . |
| 5 | The air raids were commonly known as the Baedeker Raids , after a publishing house that produced travel guides , because the Germans made a sudden switch from bombing major cities , industrial and military targets and bombed cities that did not have anything remotely possible connected with any major war effort . |
| 6 | The Germans made a thin capillary out of palladium , heated it red-hot and diffused hydrogen through it . |
| 7 | Then one day he heard the birds making a frightful racket and this huge magpie flew out of the tree . |
| 8 | It was dawn when he left , a cold grey summer dawn with the birds making a deafening row . |
| 9 | Although the written text may be very general and refrain from referring either to men or women , the illustrations make a definite point for the majority contain male figures . |
| 10 | The Times made the suggested link their front-page headline — Porn videos turned ‘ Fox ’ into rapist — while the Daily Mail used this theme in their editorial of the day , as part of their continuing campaign against porn videos . |
| 11 | She glowered at the fingers making a sharp imprint on her wrist . |
| 12 | Michael Green draws attention to the fact that the Gospels represent an entirely new literary form , which was neither history , nor biography , but a highly selective weaving together of fragments using preaching and teaching ‘ arranged in order to show what sort of person Jesus was , to give the evidence on which the disciples had followed him and had adjudged him the Messiah and Son of God , and by the strongest possible implication , challenge the readers to make the same act of faith in Christ as they themselves had done ’ ( Green 1970:229 , 230 ) . |
| 13 | I warn the readers to make an accurate distinction between idea , or a conception of the mind , and the images of things … |
| 14 | And we asked them to tie it up , the lads made a bloody job I think they tied it up for coming round . |
| 15 | But if it turns out that the units make an independent contribution , then there is a further level-of-analysis problem . |
| 16 | And it 's certainly not available in sufficient detail for for all of the sectors to make a fair comparison and I think Mr has made this point in in when you 've questioned him a number of times today that the information is just not available or to hand to make to make that comparison . |
| 17 | Enlarged by an escort of servants and porters and the sixteenth-century versions of groupies and hookers , the marchers made an impressive column half a mile long . |
| 18 | For instance , in December 1991 the seers made an average forecast for America 's GDP growth in 1992 of 2% ; this was almost spot on the actual growth of 2.1% . |
| 19 | I feel the Scots make a tremendous fuss about their |
| 20 | Lord Donaldson was suggesting that the parties made an informed decision that the matter had to be referred to arbitration on the basis that they had a formulated dispute where their rights and obligations were to be determined . |
| 21 | The picture of him as a gorilla was necessary on the leaflet because the words make no overt mention of his race . |
| 22 | The words make no classical sense , but they distil the essence of Justinian 's reforms , and they are the most fitting introduction to his books on legacies and trusts . |
| 23 | The Iraqis made the fullest use of these defensive advantages in 1984 to supplement the positions they had prepared on dry land while awaiting the half million or so Iranians whom US satellite photographs had identified as massing on the frontier near Basrah . |
| 24 | Of course the paras make a valuable contribution . |
| 25 | The visitors made an impressive start against a Perth side beaten only once at home in the past five months . |
| 26 | Initially it was not entirely clear how they , or other British units further west along the frontier , should be expected to respond if the Croats made a concerted advance further into Austria . |
| 27 | On May 5 the judges made a formal application for their immunity to be lifted . |
| 28 | It does not feature in the textbooks on the subject ( apart from a sentence in one book about which the judges made an immense fuss ) . |
| 29 | Thought by one of the judges to make a good radio play . |
| 30 | Whether an individual member of the class can sue depends upon the size of the class and the nature of the comment : there must be something in the circumstances to make the ordinary reader feel that the plaintiff personally is the target of the criticism . |