Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone has to make sure Wellington has heard this news . ’ |
| 2 | He went on to commend the interpretive skills of Richard Benson , who made the halftone negatives and worked closely with the craftsmen at Meriden Gravure in Meriden , Connecticut , who printed the plates in tritone ( which involves making three negatives — for light , dark and middle tones — for each print , and two passes through the press ) . |
| 3 | Though the terms of the Barber bequest originally forbad the purchase of works painted after 1899 , this stipulation has since been altered to permit the acquisition of works of art at least thirty years old — an alteration which has made possible the purchase under the present Director , Professor Hamish Miles , of important pictures by Redon , Gwen John , Leger and Magritte . |
| 4 | The firm introduced Signet , a tailor-made computer system which has made financial accounting very much faster and also handles word processing requirements . |
| 5 | It was that connection and that relationship , claims Morris , which has made all the difference in his life . |
| 6 | It was that connection and that relationship , claims Morris , which has made all the difference in his life . |
| 7 | The attitude and commitment shown against the Aussies will return and then you 'll see a pack once again with all the old Irish fire and passion , which has made moderate ( on paper ) teams look like world-beaters . |
| 8 | However sound this may be , it is of course the case that many fellow citizens are themselves being denied this right by an economic climate which has made millions of people unemployed , and which has struck particularly at young people seeking manual work . |
| 9 | Another factor is the rapid development of integrated circuit technology , which has made available a wide range of circuit functions at attractive prices , so that it is even realistic to assess the potential advantages of microprocessor.based control . |
| 10 | There is something in the British political culture , and I call this a national characteristic once it gets deep into a culture , which has made British politics consistently less violent than others . |
| 11 | Generally , though , the effect is one of stillness , of supreme design : it is only in passing a family raising picks over their heads to break the deep brown clods that you consider the huge effort which has made this landscape . |
| 12 | It is this partnership of complementary skills and knowledge , which has made these results possible and on your behalf I extend our thanks to our employees throughout the company . |
| 13 | And what difference will it make to a government which has made more U-turns than a snake ? ’ |
| 14 | The Royal Botanic Garden is an excellent example of a popular attraction which has made special improvements to allow thousands of disabled people to enjoy its beauty each year . |
| 15 | The releases could be part of China 's bid to sway the International Olympic Committee to award the 2000 Olympics to Beijing , which has made clear it will do anything to win the Games . |
| 16 | But the council , which has to make severe economies to meet Government spending targets , is trying to ensure that more people spread their visits throughout the entire week . |
| 17 | As one of the United Kingdom 's leading industries , employing considerable numbers of engineers and scientists , we naturally have to plan for our future , which includes making sure that there will be adequate supplies of technical and scientific employees in the years to come . |
| 18 | ( Mary Magdalen is found to be an altogether more sympathetic role model ; she has a nice plain earthiness which seems to make more sense of our actual lived experience . ) |
| 19 | At the same time , others need to offer the caring , understanding support which helps to make such a life possible . |
| 20 | Sales and technical support for these two products will be done by Nippon DEC , which hopes to make 200 sales of each product in the first year . |
| 21 | Sales and technical support for these two products will be done by Nippon DEC , which hopes to make 200 sales of each product in the first year . |
| 22 | There are also rumours that she may take a role in a film directed by David Lynch 's daughter Jennifer , which promises to make Blue Velvet look positively staid . |
| 23 | Thus it was with a certain amount of relief that I acceded to our editor 's request to look at FloorPlan Plus , ( FP from hereon ) which promises to make this kind of thing much easier to sort out . |
| 24 | Moreover , Lyons himself does make explicit appeal to the characteristics of literacy in his description of ‘ objectivity ’ . |
| 25 | You have made 'em red , you have made 'em redundant and you in , in you have and I hope you 've had nobody redundant because I 've I 'd be pleased to go out to those homes and say them come back and I would be pleased to go up to and say you 've got your figures wrong because you 're saying that nobody 's made redundant ooh well I I 'm so pleased . |
| 26 | But now she wants to make sure that all windows are fitted with locks so that other children do n't suffer the same fate . |
| 27 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 28 | Must you , she wants to make sure I 've got a constant supply I have Sadie to thank for that . |
| 29 | By a business contact who has made serious threats . ’ , |
| 30 | Indeed Butzer is a geographer who has made great contributions in defining a field of Pleistocene Geography which was the term used as a subtitle for his book on Environment and Archaeology first published in 1964 . |