Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At tea I made one of the mistakes of my life . |
| 2 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 3 | The programs were tried out extensively with my own students , and from their feedback I made several modifications . |
| 4 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 5 | I walked up to the little animal but he took off at a speed which made light of his infirmity . |
| 6 | Here again , Dohnányi 's view is markedly cool and crystalline , lacking the tension and reined-in emotion which make this piece work for me . |
| 7 | I drive to the Hope in my ugly , crusty car which makes horrible squeaking sounds in the rain . |
| 8 | Each ward should have a planned programme which makes full use of its learning opportunities . |
| 9 | In part it was geography which made this possible . |
| 10 | It was , of course , not just the uncertainty which made 1992 such a difficult year for McIntosh and his colleagues . |
| 11 | Maxwell Davies has written for him a 20-minute piece which makes full use of these strengths . |
| 12 | With any model , however limited , implementation proceeds unevenly and involves participation at local level , a degree of flexibility in plans and among planners , a measure of decentralisation of control and the development of management techniques at local as well as at central level , together with the communication and the partnership which make all these possible . |
| 13 | Maeve could be Kali , or even Mammy Water the lake goddess of Nigeria 's Ibo-land who makes beautiful women mad so she can possess their boyfriends . |
| 14 | Next comes grandson William Gylby , wealthy London lawyer who made great strides , increasing the size of the island to over 1,500 acres by his death in 1744 , and having the dubious distinction of attempting to reduce the troublesome rat population by having them killed , dressed and offered up to his tenants and workmen to eat . |
| 15 | ‘ I know grace rooteth not out the affections of a mother , but putteth them on His wheel who maketh all things new , that they may be refined ; … |
| 16 | The mood of the meeting was adversely affected by President Roh Tae Woo 's forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union [ see p. 37918 ] , and by a series of confrontations involving journalists in the Northern delegation who made unauthorized visits to several of Seoul 's universities where they met with student radicals . |
| 17 | Our first problem at Llandrindod Wells was to estimate the numbers coming to the lake , so each night during the spring we made hourly circuits of the lake collecting all the toads we encountered . |
| 18 | Mira herself makes several appearances , both in the first and the third persons , before also discovering that her name is on the list as the delegate from Amalgamemnon , whereupon she too ‘ dies ’ . |
| 19 | In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure . |
| 20 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 21 | But , as several dealers told The Art Newspaper , waiving exhibition fees is a concession which makes little difference if a gallery can not make sufficient sales to recoup costs estimated at £10,000–40,000 for taking stock and staff to Madrid . |
| 22 | It was his own spiritual change which made possible after the poems of the early twenties a more affectionate view of London , but we should not assume that the owner of Down the Silver Stream of Thames had ever been totally blind to the beauty of the city . |
| 23 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |
| 24 | It is seen by the government as a measure which makes more people pay directly for local services and which will increase local accountability . |
| 25 | Combining vaginal and rectal swabs , together with the use of a selective culture medium , improves the predictive value ( positive predictive value of 67% and a negative predictive value of 92% ) but only to a level which makes mass screening viable in areas with high rates of infection . |
| 26 | Inventing the past to suit our needs , telling stories to account for paradox , and acting out roles are the forms of narrative which make possible all our cognitive endeavours and all communication . |
| 27 | In the great hall henchmen were laying tables for the banquet and the air was thick with the tangy wholesome odour of cooking from the kitchen which made both men 's mouths water . |
| 28 | For a feast of potatoes , I offer a medley of Chardonnays , the most fashionable grape variety which makes delicious wines — not just in its native Burgundy , but in vineyards all over the world . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | The primary emphasis of the work is on the support networks of old people living in the community ; that is , all those people who provide company , advice , help and other kinds of support which make continued independent living possible . |