Example sentences of "[noun pl] make the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do authorities make the little things in life so difficult ? |
| 2 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 3 | The mysterious Miss Madrigal , who is employed as Laurel 's companion and whose green fingers make the barren chalk garden of the title bloom , brings a real feeling of tragic suffering to the stage . |
| 4 | Cereals and root vegetables make the largest contribution , and are most often cooked to aid digestion . |
| 5 | The results reveal little departure from the traditional view that applicants from large , old-fashioned institutions make the best employees , although UMIST and Loughborough are ranked highly , largely because of their more vocational courses . |
| 6 | The Times made the suggested link their front-page headline — Porn videos turned ‘ Fox ’ into rapist — while the Daily Mail used this theme in their editorial of the day , as part of their continuing campaign against porn videos . |
| 7 | Chola reached up to the arch above the doorway add seven times made the same imprint with the pad of her thumb on to seven discs of semi-dried cow-dung . |
| 8 | Words came into my ears and my fingers made the appropriate movements . |
| 9 | 100 years ago a legion of artists and craftsmen made the same journey . |
| 10 | Old newspapers are being preserved by photographing about 200 volumes a year to microform , priority being given to those for which readers make the greatest call . |
| 11 | The old axiom that hungry fighters make the best ones is countered by the quote from young , struggling players : " Eat beans , and play like beans … " |
| 12 | Variations of hue are indistinguishable , and many deep-sea animals make the most of the ambient light by tuning all their visual pigments to blue . |
| 13 | Even shallow water animals make the most of the ambient light by tuning all their visual pigments to blue . |
| 14 | Schools make the French Connection |
| 15 | It is a scientific fact that empty vessels make the most noise . |
| 16 | The term that comes to mind and is much used by Germans in the training clubs is ‘ empty vessels make the most noise ’ . |
| 17 | When , flushed with success , proregulationists pressed Gladstone 's government to extend the statutes in the late 1860s , many supporters made the traditional connection between the threat of the prostitute and wider anxieties about public order and moral habits among the unrespectable poor . |
| 18 | Do schools make the best use of external agencies ? |
| 19 | This was operated by a series of huge lifts at either end , and horses , carts , and thousands of Glaswegians made the daily descent into the Stygian depths beneath the cold waters of the Clyde . |
| 20 | These words make the formulaic character of the disposition especially clear , for not only is there a trust clause but there is also a general legacy per damnationem . |
| 21 | The regular salaries attached to the more important posts in the customs and excise administration , for example , were in themselves attractive to many voters in Scottish constituencies , and were the objects of a great deal of political negotiation , for this kind of appointment was the normal currency of management for the politician able to procure it , and the links between parliamentary politics and the disposal of such offices made the nominal right of appointment possessed by the boards of commissioners in Edinburgh somewhat illusory . |
| 22 | Books make the ideal Christmas present , and among those currently in stock are Muriel Spark 's autobiography Curriculum Vitae , in which she writes of her childhood in Edinburgh and the people and places which have influenced her work — including the original Miss Brodie ; and Alisdair Gray 's new novel Poor Things , a Frankenstein-inspired tale which has been described as his best work yet . |
| 23 | Despite major record labels making the customary silly noises , for the moment Raw Stylus are doing it their way , playing out with a full eight-piece line-up . |
| 24 | In the absence of other voices making the same moral argument sufficiently loudly , we should perhaps be grateful to hear it from the very heart of the establishment . |
| 25 | There is an excellent network of cable cars , mountain railways and chair lifts making the highest mountains accessible to everybody with the minimum of effort . |
| 26 | Poor listeners often make irrelevant comments ; the most influential contributions do not necessarily come from those vessels making the most noise . |
| 27 | You might feel that 1,000 Ks is ample , but if you need more steps to make the total transition plausible in you mind , simply allow yourself to assume 10,000 Ks . |
| 28 | The courting male , consequently , relies on visual signals to make the female aware of his presence and his purpose . |
| 29 | The glen was an obvious subject for a canal that would obviate the necessity for small vessels to make the long and hazardous voyage around Cape Wrath and the northern coast , and in 1803 Thomas Telford was commissioned to construct a waterway to link the three lochs and connect with Loch Linnhe and the Moray Firth , thus giving a continuous water surface from the Atlantic to the North Sea . |
| 30 | Michael Green draws attention to the fact that the Gospels represent an entirely new literary form , which was neither history , nor biography , but a highly selective weaving together of fragments using preaching and teaching ‘ arranged in order to show what sort of person Jesus was , to give the evidence on which the disciples had followed him and had adjudged him the Messiah and Son of God , and by the strongest possible implication , challenge the readers to make the same act of faith in Christ as they themselves had done ’ ( Green 1970:229 , 230 ) . |