Example sentences of "[prep] make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you assure us that the contents of this letter were such as make such action reasonable ? ’ |
| 2 | Homeowners will have less money to spend in their pockets after making higher mortgage repayments and will be even less inclined to borrow at today 's high rates . |
| 3 | Stocks held by the UK Group Companies are to be valued at the lower of cost ( including all relevant overhead expenditure and external sub-contractor costs of processing stock ) and net realisable value [ excluding freight costs ] after making due allowance for obsolete items , slow moving items , unusable items , unsaleable items and nonstandard items . |
| 4 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 5 | After making first animal feed ( korm ) and only later cabbage soup ( shchi ) for the family , she may finally turn to the work that occupies the womenfolk from November until Lent — spinning flax from that blue-flowered , frail-leaved plant plucked by the root in handfuls in the August of 1921 . |
| 6 | After making considerable impact with his American research , he announced on a World in Action television programme that the results of his American research held just as strongly for Britain . |
| 7 | But after making this admission we must go deeper into the question . |
| 8 | As a general rule , fiduciary duties may be modified or displaced if the customer 's informed consent is obtained after making full disclosure of all material facts . |
| 9 | McGee , who began as an apprentice with Middlesbrough but was released after making 30 League appearances , has had a unsuccessful spell with Leicester . |
| 10 | CONTROL Securities , the debt-laden mini-conglomerate that owns the Belhaven Brewery , yesterday revealed taxable losses of £51.2 million for the six months to end-September after making massive property write-offs . |
| 11 | Ola , a six-year-old chimp , has become world-famous after making more money in one month than five of Sweden 's top financial experts . |
| 12 | Would the flight from the towns to the countryside in the early thirties of made any difference ? |
| 13 | Despite making good use of quotations and explaining its objectives clearly and quickly , the accounts lacked notes , and it also failed to explain one of its funds sufficiently . |
| 14 | Despite making reasonable progress , difficulties prevented the team from making the summit and after 24 hours effort they returned to base camp . |
| 15 | Electrolytic production of alkalis and improved methods of making sulphuric acid soon followed . |
| 16 | That ‘ Mr Lavoisier had found a method of making inflammable air ( hydrogen ) for a halfpenny per cubic foot ’ , a fifth of the usual price , attracted Priestley 's attention . |
| 17 | For Harriet Finlay Johnson , knowledge of the objective world was of prime importance and she developed a dramatic process of making factual knowledge more interesting . |
| 18 | It accuses 22 companies — most of them in Taiwan — of making counterfeit Apple computers . |
| 19 | Some part-timers regard Koi dealing as a way of making easy money . |
| 20 | Many commentators would now agree that the marginal costs of making fuller use of existing facilities outweigh the economies of scale to be obtained from their concentration . |
| 21 | The case submitted by the DoE was that ‘ the purpose of making fuller use of SDOs would not be to make any general relaxation in development control but to stimulate planned development in acceptable locations , and speed up the planning process ’ . |
| 22 | The grant of Alemannia , where none of Charles 's half-brothers had a prime interest , was the least provocative way of making reasonable provision for Charles 's future . |
| 23 | Realistically , there may be little prospect of making better progress than this so long as the systems themselves remain largely no more than promises rather than commercially available products . |
| 24 | Developing the food side of the business was a way of making better use of the Cadbury brand . |
| 25 | My right hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the dangers which lie within the social charter of making European industry uncompetitive in relation to Japanese industry and to others . |
| 26 | If the DH is 500 ft , then at 700 ft/min it would be reached in approximately 2 minutes which would give you a reasonable chance of making visual contact . |
| 27 | Judge Geoffrey Grigson rebuked Lady Dawn Kennedy , 32 , after David Waters , prosecuting her on three charges of making bogus rape allegations , pointed out her conduct . |
| 28 | Sue Cale demonstrated the art of making hot cross buns using fast action dried yeast . |
| 29 | To confer legitimacy as a matter of course on all interests , even conflicting ones , is to run the risk of making democratic politics synonymous with a static paralysis in policy , or with what Thomas Carlyle called " self-cancelling Donothingism " ( Chartism , 1839 ) . |
| 30 | There has been a continuing move in the direction of making economic theory mathematically and logically more rigorous and developing statistical methods to test and measure theory using what data is available . |