Example sentences of "[subord] make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And slick pictures of pretty young people who seem to have nothing better to do than make amateur porn videos — often appearing in up to a dozen different tapes . |
| 2 | I have more than made that point in my submission . |
| 3 | Left to itself a vine would carpet the land in every direction , albeit making haphazard progress . |
| 4 | New ways of delivering legal advice and assistance are being explored by the Legal Aid Board including schemes which will franchise certain work to specific firms or agencies rather than making such advice available from any solicitor ( Smith , 1989 ) . |
| 5 | The legislation , which is the first of its kind in the common-law world , was seen as clarifying and putting the law beyond doubt , rather than making new law . |
| 6 | Collecting and cleaning some types of plastic for recycling uses more energy than making new plastic . |
| 7 | drive slowly — it 's safer and it consumes less fuel ; avoid sudden stops and use the gears to slow down rather than making sudden brake stops |
| 8 | The hard-bitten men round the table knew better than to make that mistake . |
| 9 | Then she was closing her eyes in an agony of resistance , as if making that hand invisible could prevent what she knew was going to happen . |
| 10 | ‘ My Missus if making some tea Selwyn , ’ Barney called after him , ‘ You want some ? ’ |
| 11 | He had decided to opt for medicine rather than the stage , and had felt virtuous , mildly sacrificial , a little self-important while making this choice . |
| 12 | Whatever their standards , they were successful , collecting money for the charities whilst making good business contacts . |
| 13 | Whilst making some use of material offered in other courses , it would be free-standing and designed to produce well-qualified and committed ‘ ministers of music ’ . |
| 14 | It does matter we really need to know whether to make necessary phone calls |
| 15 | He says Alsys has not decided whether to make Soft Bench or Atherton the backplane of the Thomson Ada software engineering thrust . |
| 16 | Use a pint of stewed apple instead of water when making apricot jelly . |
| 17 | When making that payment , Tradeco must deduct income tax at the basic rate and pay that to the Revenue . |
| 18 | Management strategies must grow out of consideration of such questions as the desirability of balance within the curriculum and how best management techniques might serve this … especially when making medium term decisions ( say five years ) … |
| 19 | Chop chop : when making mint sauce , chop the mint with the sugar , It 'll help to bring out the flavour |
| 20 | Southpaw stance forces the opponent to be very careful when making rear foot kicks |
| 21 | The make you , sort of what were doing when making another member of staff , so there 's a going on full time having free coffee like Dinda did , much change it to be , but I mean it 's just there for free , all day every day , she 's now ten penny piece in , they get a card , get a little pin pricked on , every time they used it up to twenty they get twenty cups of coffee on its card |
| 22 | Even when making full allowance for the cultural context and resource limitations , nearly all independent commentators agree that , at least until very recently , conditions in Indian prisons have been appalling . |
| 23 | When making royal icing , ensure that your equipment is clean and completely grease-free , as even the slightest trace of egg yolk or oil will prevent the mixture from becoming properly aerated . |
| 24 | This practice made the clay into a more workable material , improved the firing qualities as well as making economic use of the materials readily available on the farm . |
| 25 | We shall first raise some questions which seem in need of answers , and then discuss some observations about their characteristics ; in Section 3.8 , we shall propose an account of their intensional structure , and in the remainder of the chapter show how this reflects their characteristics and answers the questions , as well as making possible coverage of some further data . |
| 26 | Text editing facilities must include the ability to add , move , copy , and delete blocks of text as well as making simple editing alterations . |
| 27 | Also , manufacturers have upgraded the specification of diesel cars as well as making greater use of turbo-chargers to improve performance . |
| 28 | The same irony is enriched and plangently deepened in another fine poem by Tate of the same year , in which once again the many Virgilian echoes point to a deeper affinity — with the fable of the Aeneid as making more sense than he can find anywhere else , for the historical predicament that the American Southerner has inherited and must make sense of . |
| 29 | For the expressive value is confirmed when people in good faith try to treat one another in a way appropriate to common membership in a community governed by political integrity and to see each other as making this attempt , even when they disagree about exactly what integrity requires in particular circumstances . |
| 30 | As well as making quick botch jobs of things that need careful repair if they are not to fall apart again next week , teachers , when they confront the impossibility of doing everything they ought to do head on , are faced with making some very tough priority decisions . |