Example sentences of "[verb] make [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miscue analysis has made teachers aware of the paucity of language of many of the early readers , and the near-impossibility of utilising the syntactic and semantic cueing systems with " Up , Janet , up ! " or " Can Nan fan a pan ? " |
| 2 | This chapter describes the way that one teacher has made mathematics accessible to 14 and 15 year olds in a special school for pupils described as having ‘ moderate learning difficulties ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ The Russian Revolution ’ , Russell wrote in March 1917 , ‘ has stirred men 's imaginations everywhere and has made things possible which would have been quite impossible a week ago . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The currency fluctuation between the punt and pound sterling , ’ commented Michael Ryder of Easons , ‘ meant that overall , prices of books published in the UK have been 10% lower in the Republic , which has made things difficult . |
| 5 | All that has made England famous and all that has made England wealthy , has been the work of minorities , sometimes very small ones . |
| 6 | If it is largely the public-school spirit which has made England great in the past , any means by which a similar spirit may be fostered in the boys who leave the elementary schools at the very age when the sons of the monied classes are entering on the most valuable years of their school career , is of incalculable importance . |
| 7 | All that has made England famous and all that has made England wealthy , has been the work of minorities , sometimes very small ones . |
| 8 | Intense commercial netting of wrecks has made life difficult for offshore charter skippers and anglers . |
| 9 | This year 's hot summer has made life difficult for exhibitors like Gordon . |
| 10 | The bite of the recession has made companies reluctant to offer placements so the students have set up their own action desk . |
| 11 | Literally translated , euthanasia means ‘ easy death ’ — but there is nothing easy about ending the life of a patient for whom pain has made existence intolerable . |
| 12 | The people of the Scottish island of Lewis , for example , have a shared history of adversity and isolation , a highly egalitarian society and a homogeneous culture which has made cooperation possible . |
| 13 | The hit movie has made dinosaurs big business — one company is struggling to meet demand for models selling at more than seventy pounds a time . |
| 14 | The volume of Keith Harings on offer has made buyers choosy and wary . |
| 15 | Mass production has made fashion available to anyone who can get to their high street chain store or who can get hold of the latest mail order catalogue . |
| 16 | On the other hand it 's Magalluf which has made Majorca famous for British holidaymakers . |
| 17 | Eddie 's over-protection rapidly becomes a blind obsession until he has lost sight of the fact that he really wants to make Catherine happy . |
| 18 | ‘ You 'd like it better if I tried to make people happy , would n't you ? |
| 19 | The pilot studies on management budgeting which tried to make clinicians accountable for a budget related to agreed workload targets demonstrated the difficulties of getting clinical cooperation on a voluntary basis and the massive efforts of persuasion and education needed for success ( Harrison et al. |
| 20 | They want to make screwball romantic comedies but they wind up producing sitcoms that look lost without a laugh track . |
| 21 | Unless you want to make things difficult for yourself do n't buy a board which fails to satisfy all three of the above conditions . |
| 22 | The Retail Consortium said : ‘ Like every year , families want to make Christmas special . ’ |
| 23 | She knew that junior deacons in their second curacies , even if they came from distinguished clerical families , were not expected to make contributions uninvited when in the presence of very senior clergy . |
| 24 | They are designed to make students aware of the personal and social development which is an intrinsic part of undertaking such a programme of activities . |
| 25 | Complete Works is designed to make life easy for those who want to integrate . |
| 26 | The program , which will cost £59.95 , has been designed to make accounts easy for the non-specialist user . |
| 27 | Other approaches , designed to make people aware of their behaviour in groups , use questionnaires and rating scales to enable participants to record their feelings , perceptions and ideas about the group and its behaviour . |
| 28 | A Barclays Deposit Account is designed to make savings simple , convenient and safe . |
| 29 | Procedure before the industrial tribunal is relatively simple , being designed to make applications easy to process without legal advice , and the rules of evidence are not strictly applied by the tribunal . |
| 30 | Now if we do n't do that of course we er we 're going to change lots of patterns , we 're going to potentially increase er commuting out of the area into Leeds , that 's not something which we feel is consistent with er planning policy guidance in the realm erm , I do n't think there 's anything as far as I know in R P G two which er says that adjoining authorities around West Yorkshire should n't er seek to make provision reasonable provision for their own er residents ' needs . |