Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The kind of smell which makes sick people worse must interfere with the vigour and vitality of those who are well , but at all events it is sufficient to show that sick persons are injured thereby ’ , per Stephen , J. in the Malton Manure case . |
| 2 | Indeed , as we shall see later , a rise in total output accompanied by a change in the distribution of income which makes some people better off and others worse off can not necessarily be interpreted as an improvement in the country 's living standards . |
| 3 | So we start to take an interest , and among other things we 're passed the names of a couple of Iranians who make frequent trips back home by train . |
| 4 | Light aircraft fly into the nearby airport full of commuters who make sophisticated value judgements on the place . |
| 5 | Better instruction and the consideration of aids which make eye-drop instillation easier should be implemented . |
| 6 | You see , these pipes pump some sort of stuff which make those bits up there move , and those pistons are forced out , which makes the arm thing over there — ’ said Grimma , impatiently . |
| 7 | Perhaps Sawallisch should be persuaded to record the work now , though I very much doubt whether he would be able to recapture the real sense of occasion which makes this disc such a compelling experience . |
| 8 | They are the kind of assumptions which make whole sciences possible and rational , and they can not therefore be tested within these sciences . |
| 9 | The career of a full-time vegetarian forager , always on the move in search of food , can not include patterns of child-care which make such demands on the mother and which put the neonate in such a dependent state . |
| 10 | ‘ It is contrary to natural justice to launch a witch-hunt against the members of staff who made these allegations , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ It is contrary to natural justice to launch a witch-hunt against the members of staff who made these allegations , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Seventy nine per cent of people who make New Year 's resolutions keep them only a week . |
| 13 | But it would seem to be impossible for us to return to patristic sensibilities , for the framework of thought which made that Christology possible is no longer with us . |
| 14 | Though he was an adequate mariner , he was by no means an expert fisherman , being the sort of man who makes more conversation than profit from his catches ; but after a trip across to Plymouth early in the new year , he returned looking exceedingly pleased with himself , dressed in finer clothes than were often seen on the Polruan side of the Fowey , and full of the news that he intended to commission John Knollys to build him a bark of a hundred tons . |
| 15 | ONE might forgive John Torode ( 'Illiberal liberalism' , 3 October ) for thinking that the intolerance of liberals who make loud professions of tolerance is preferable to the intolerance of Muslims who do not . |
| 16 | In its first year of operation it made 25,000 cars and trucks . |
| 17 | Her father recounted his latest golf tournament , Guy talked to Charles about sailing , then opened up the conversation by introducing a surprisingly shrewd appreciation of the arts into the debate , when it became clear that in addition to racing yachts around the Isle of Wight he made frequent visits to see the RSC at the Barbican , and was something of an expert on modern ballet . |
| 18 | However , if you do that , you 're going to encourage these hundreds of children who make this crossing between the sites crossing every day , to walk through the er the , the nature reserve . |
| 19 | Of the handful of men who made real money out of tin , Godolphin , besides being a leading figure in the industry , was also the richest resident in the county , assessed at £200 . |
| 20 | By posing an enigma and deferring its solution , the hermeneutic code pulls off a sleight of hand which makes delayed information synonymous with truth . |
| 21 | All the interviews begin with recollections of childhood which make compulsive listening and reading ( transcripts are available ) . |
| 22 | This is a collection of papers which makes extensive reference to the work I mention here . |
| 23 | Thus , it is not uncommon to find Comte , Durkheim , Marx , and Weber all described as positivists , even though from many points of view they make strange bedfellows . |
| 24 | Roentgen was experimenting with electrical discharges in evacuated tubes when he observed the emission of rays which made nearby materials fluoresce , i.e. emit light when the rays fell upon them . |
| 25 | This is not the kind of guy who makes polite conversation . |