Example sentences of "[adj] make [noun] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 That made Jay nervous again but Peter assured him they would manage , it was dead easy , a breeze .
2 It was n't a matter of money — four hundred would n't break him — it was the risk of finding that he 'd been duped and made a fool of that made Carson wary .
3 Does not this make forgiveness cheap grace and God himself a rather indulgent parent who is never put out by anything we do ?
4 This made Mum livid .
5 This made things difficult for them during the aggressively secular phase of the French Revolution , when Itxassou in particular fell foul of the regime .
6 This made guilt central to the relationship , built on fear and sterility of feeling .
7 This made Rose angry .
8 Despite their closeness , all this made Jean-Claude impatient with his mother .
9 This made Franco uneasy .
10 Many proposed projects provided little or no guarantee of generating convertible currencies , and this made banks cautious in their approach to such projects .
11 The council , the local housing authority , seeking to comply with the duty imposed on them by section 65 of the Housing Act 1985 to make accommodation available , offered him the tenancy of a sixth-floor flat .
12 Building societies and banks , hire purchase companies and finance houses , credit and store card organisations all vie with one another to make money available .
13 Building societies and banks , hire purchase companies and finance houses , credit and store card organisations all vie with one another to make money available .
14 For some this makes hospitalization inevitable .
15 This makes retribution inappropriate .
16 This makes Ventura ideal for publishing long , regular format documents like books or manuals where the main desire is to keep the style consistent .
17 All this makes Stephen fretful and peevish as well it might .
18 This makes rust inert .
19 Always be willing to make recommendations definite and positive ; they should need little " hedging " or qualification .
20 It supports the belief that ageing makes people unattractive , and no longer physically or sexually interesting .
21 Most banks are prepared to make finance available to exporters to cover the whole cycle of negotiations , production , shipment and payment by the importer .
22 If wood worm is the plight of the legitimate antique dealer , then this electronic bug looks set to make life difficult for rogue dealers and thieves .
23 The Workmen 's Compensation Act 1897 made employers liable for accidents at work and obliged them to insure against such events and to compensate the worker , almost regardless of cause .
24 I told you Swindon will let in too many to make Bodin useful : - ) )
25 Bye-law 76 makes members liable for disciplinary action when they enter an IVA , but whether the Investigation Committee refers cases to the Disciplinary Committee or not will depend on a member 's attitude to the arrangement , rather than on its causes .
26 The system for expressions of vague information built into human languages is of great subtlety and precision and if we can unravel its complexities , engineers will be only too happy to make computers vague .
27 Committee members who were responsible for setting Glenand up to promote jobs were extremely reluctant to make people redundant .
28 Mountain View , California-based Make Systems Inc , which specialises in network asset management software for wide area and router networks , is establishing a UK subsidiary .
29 Most notably , it had several close encounters with the Earth , causing great upheavals , dividing the Red Sea , spattering the landscape with flaming petroleum , and in general making life sheer hell for our ancestors .
30 The former economics professor conceded that his plan to replace six indirect taxes with a 15 per cent goods and services tax ( GST ) , which he had said was essential to make Australia competitive , had been unpopular .
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