Example sentences of "[noun] make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the stink it raised in some quarters , The Krays made perfect sense as a symptom of the curious British habit of turning petty villains into national folk heroes . |
| 2 | In other words " hard cases make bad law " . |
| 3 | Why do some authorities make greater provision for pupils with special needs than other authorities faced with the same Problems ? ’ |
| 4 | In the fourth condition they were asked to judge whether a sentence made any sense . |
| 5 | When Mr Rocard made that speech , the ecologists were being credited with almost 20 per cent of the vote . |
| 6 | ‘ Does the interview with the Admiral make any difference to anything ? ’ |
| 7 | Laetacaras make good community fish , general or dwarf cichlid community , but must have sufficient territory if other cichlids are present . |
| 8 | The price , to a cheetah , of growing larger leg muscles is all the other things that the cheetah could have done with the materials and energy used to make the leg muscles , for instance make more milk for cubs . |
| 9 | Turner 's view that migrants move into the city slums and then out to the shanty towns , is not so much the case now since the large number of spontaneous housing settlements and the widespread knowledge of their existence make this sort of housing immediately available . |
| 10 | He says ‘ His rules made good sense then and they make better sense now as the pressures grow inexorably , yet they have been ignored in certain sensitive areas , with results which are both plain and heart-rending to see . ’ |
| 11 | Some local authorities made good use of their autonomy . |
| 12 | But despite apparent government support a number of ministers objected and the proposals made little headway . |
| 13 | The leader writer depicted the Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh as having been ‘ hoist with her own petard ’ : if she had hoped that her Committee of Enquiry would recommend financial cuts she had been disappointed , for if anything the proposals made some increase in expenditure likely . |
| 14 | Whatever one 's political view of them , if the privatization proposals made any sense then prices being kept down by competition should be at their heart . |
| 15 | Once the ice shifted , 250,000 years ago , nomadic hunters made this region their own — we know , for they left a trail of hewn flint artefacts . |
| 16 | The trial made legal history when child witnesses gave evidence using closed circuit television cameras . |
| 17 | The presence of such oases made human travel and nomadic existence possible in arid lands . |
| 18 | Second , women of all socio-economic groups make greater use of general practitioners than men , again relative to need . |
| 19 | Various pressure groups make that point about both the London terminuses . |
| 20 | The reasons why the lower socio-economic groups make less use of the education and health services are complex and only a brief comment can be presented here . |
| 21 | The position in relation to the use of medical services by the various socio-economic groups is as follows : the higher socio-economic groups make more use of most of the preventive local services ; the same , also , applies for the use of doctors ; the reverse , however , is the case in relation to the use of hospitals . |
| 22 | Frau Nordern made another foray . |
| 23 | Finally — perhaps one should say continuously — there is the comparison between conductors ; and here again , rather surprisingly , Davis 's tried and proved expertise made less impression than the new but not dissimilar touch brought by John Nelson . |
| 24 | Spittals made great play of tapping the microphones and checking that they worked before he introduced the superintendent . |
| 25 | These show that the birds make little use of the lower mudflats , which would be permanently flooded when the barrage is built , preferring the higher levels , which would still be exposed . |
| 26 | Weavers and combers might at most times make common cause against clothiers , but when the import of ready-combed Irish wool was the issue at Tiverton in 1749 they came to blows . |
| 27 | Some cultures make extensive use of learned gestures and they do indeed have to be learned in the same way as one learns the word for " station " or how to refuse politely . |
| 28 | It has one central point of teaching and the details of the story make that point both clear and vivid . |
| 29 | When a manticore captures a victim the terrible rows of razor-sharp teeth make short work of bones , clothing or any other clues , thus explaining how occasionally individuals simply disappear without trace . |
| 30 | The chart shows that in total the non-telecom activities made less profit in this half year than last time . |