Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all , they suggest that it may be possible to identify those people at risk of depression , that is , those who tend to make global , stable and internal attributions for failure , before they become depressed . |
| 2 | It is both unfair and unrealistic to expect those who remain to make further sacrifices in order to service the sensibilities of visitors . |
| 3 | By a business contact who has made serious threats . ’ , |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That 's the position I prefer but I 'm happy enough with a midfield role for Northern Ireland , ’ said Rogan , who has made 18 international appearances . |
| 6 | But Chelsea have had promising kids before , so who has made all the difference ? |
| 7 | Mr Morton , who has made many speeches on the need for an integrated and planned transport policy , would in any case be unlikely to relish the job of breaking up the rail network . |
| 8 | He is hardly someone who has made friendly remarks about the coal industry of late . |
| 9 | Livermore said : ‘ He 's a clever footballer who has made tremendous strides , bearing in mind he 's only 18 . |
| 10 | The essential problem of enquiring into what may be in other people 's minds has been captured by John Berger , who has made one of the most imaginative reconstructions of the European guest-workers ' social world . |
| 11 | He was like a man who has made one step forward into unknown territory and stands looking for a path . |
| 12 | Potential sales of his device could be huge , says Mr Garnett , who has made two trips to the US to visit officials from the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 13 | So far , the only person who has made that suggestion is the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 14 | And if you get an interview you are more likely to succeed if you can prove that you are a positive person who has made demonstrable efforts to counteract the ill-effects of being unemployed and have managed to put your time to constructive use . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to introduce the man who has made this all possible , and whose health and leisure complex you are here to experience — and later , of course , to promote . |
| 16 | Philip Weston , who has made steady progress , was named as captain of England Under-19 for the three-match series with Sri Lanka . |
| 17 | Arguably the player who has made most progress since the European triumph last May , the 19 year-old Glasgow University student is already planning a full-time career in the sport following his graduation this summer . |
| 18 | A MAN who has made 15 previous court appearances has been jailed for 15 months by a judge at Liverpool Crown Court . |
| 19 | This is not the stuff of which marriages are made , and it is quite clear that if United do not improve what Celtic consider to be a derisory offer for the Scotland captain , who has made 50 international appearances , there will be no union . |
| 20 | Erm , er , Jim is , Jim is sitting on in er on the flight deck of the Enterprise and he is the guy who has to make all the decisions . |
| 21 | THERE ARE SO many people who helped to make this time special that I am sorry not to be able to mention them all by name . |
| 22 | There are pros and cons , and everything really depends upon the main interests of the observer ; for example , anyone who wants to make regular studies of the Sun will be far better off with a refractor , while the deep-sky enthusiast will in general prefer a reflector . |
| 23 | The Scots and the Welsh and the Irish have clearly retained very strong national cultural characteristics , which have made it necessary for the student who wants to make accurate distinctions to say ‘ British does mean something , and it 's something to do with the Briton overseas ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's not the sort of girl who wants to make political statements with her music . |
| 25 | Although the pejorative term ‘ correlational sociolinguistics ’ is sometimes used by non-practitioners of the subject who appear to make this assumption , Labov himself has expressed the fear that his methods might give rise to a flood of replicated ‘ correlatory ’ studies of little theoretical value . |
| 26 | There is also very little likelihood that you will achieve true friendships through this type of club as they seem to cater mostly for people who want to make one-night stands . |
| 27 | It is not the intention here to go into great detail on the subject of nutrition , but rather to give a simple guide that may be useful to those who want to make sure that the elderly parent in their care is being properly nourished . |
| 28 | The rhetoric was still aggressively populist but suddenly ‘ hippy social workers ’ and ‘ machiavellian middle class communists ’ began to figure alongside ‘ twisted nazis ’ as the enemy who seek to make moral and political capital out of ‘ authentic ’ working class youth . |
| 29 | The need for such detail , however , is not confined to Americans interested in the subject ; it encompasses all those who seek to make some sense of the institutions and complex relationships that form the British polity in the 1980s . |
| 30 | That applies equally to those in the private sector and to those who are now in the public sector but who hope to make some kind of management-employee buy-out . |