Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Example ( 126 ) , however , is perfectly normal English , as confirmed by the following contexts where make denotes unintentional causation : ( 127 ) Oops ! |
| 2 | Each protein and carbohydrate gram you eat contains 4 calories . |
| 3 | Each fat gram that you eat contains 9 calories . |
| 4 | I mean has any body ever actually asked you that question before ? |
| 5 | The choice they make has all kinds of consequences — whether they 'll be up or down , whether they 'll be fit to drive or fit to live , and whether they are risking a criminal record . |
| 6 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 7 | Can we not reach conclusions today which I sense has some possibility of consensus ? |
| 8 | Instances occur where the courts feel obliged to construe a statute in a way that they themselves acknowledge creates outrageous injustice . |
| 9 | Not that what I say makes any difference , because these two are still eyeing each other like welterweights at the weigh-in , and Darius stands between them like a referee . |
| 10 | IMAGINE HAS MULTI-AUTHOR APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT |
| 11 | But the word persuade occurs several times . |
| 12 | Okay so you you you 've got it now , that one swallow eats one fly erm sorry eats ten flies |
| 13 | Depression of the plunger delivers two units of insulin obviating the need for drawing up and simplifying the procedure for when patients are out and about . |
| 14 | The orient has three species of tarsiers . |
| 15 | He exposes the vague way in which Read deploys scientific vocabulary , pointing out how much work had had to be done by a great many people and already popularized , before a literary critic could talk in this way . |
| 16 | I do n't think what you run makes any difference , because I 've run companies of very diverse natures and the principles that apply to British Steel at one end apply equally to a small company at the other end of the scale . |
| 17 | Biting her lip Amabel reproached herself thoroughly and sincerely for not having forced her to wear those whalebone stays all night when she had been growing up . |
| 18 | A valley I know has rowan trees growing with oak , birch and holly . |
| 19 | And no-one I know has any sense of ‘ the family ’ . |
| 20 | Although this assertion may be correct , the evidence that they present requires cautious interpretation . |
| 21 | Every penny of income we get gets ploughed back into erm the service , and it is a way of protecting the service , given the awful financial situation erm that the County Council face this year . |
| 22 | For example , if you want to know how big a kiwi fruit is , I can outline its shape with my fingers , or show you another object which I believe has similar proportions . |
| 23 | Authorities also disclosed that an explosives timing device like those in other terrorist bombings was recovered at the New Jersey home of suspect Nidal Ayyad , a chemical engineer who investigators believe has bomb-making know-how . |
| 24 | Secondly , be prepared to experiment with other typeface libraries so long as the format they produce has compatible printer and screen fonts . |
| 25 | Mobile sheep dip eases chemical disposal problems . |
| 26 | The potential gain if one was ‘ exceptional ’ , however , and qualified for an early release is so powerful that few men are prepared to forego it The result is a shabby , futile process that Probation Officers feel makes subsequent work with inmates more difficult , that exasperates prison officers who see the time and energy in compiling reports as wasted , and infuriates prisoners for whom the probable refusal of parole , with its tiny element of uncertainty , makes prison life even harder to bear . |
| 27 | This suggests that make expresses antecedent causation , since it evokes a process of causation giving rise to a state of affairs that comes into being only at the end of the process . |
| 28 | ‘ Boycott burgers ’ , urge activists in Manila protesting against McDonald 's multinational fast-food giant which they claim has close ties with corrupt local officials . |
| 29 | ‘ The accent they use lets other monkeys know which family they 're in , and the nature of a threat , ’ said researcher Sarah Gouzoules . |
| 30 | I see what I eat means one thing , but I eat what I see means something very different . ’ |