Example sentences of "[pron] makes [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The solicitor must also contribute to the compensation fund , which makes good any losses suffered by clients when a dishonest solicitor makes off with their money . |
| 2 | Like all good leaders , he has stoutly defended his men at various times as the victims of smog , aggressive prawns and a railway system which makes even British Rail resemble a Swiss timepiece . |
| 3 | Here Hanson , which makes just two appearances in our tables ( sixth in management quality , eighth in financial soundness ) , cleaned up , with a quarter of respondents voting it Britain 's best firm . |
| 4 | It is simply that a permissive culture which makes increasingly fewer demands on the egos and superegos of its citizens where self-restraint , postponement of gratification and drive-inhibition in general are concerned must — unless it is to dissolve in anarchy — abrogate those restraining , controlling and inhibiting functions to itself and to its agencies of social control . |
| 5 | Although our Head Office is in London , we help registered blind and partially sighted people nationwide , particularly through our Grants-in-Aid scheme which makes over 6,000 payments a year to blind people in need . |
| 6 | Digital television , which makes more efficient use of the broadcast band , is a more interesting prospect , he said . |
| 7 | And there is a long tradition in sociological thinking which makes precisely this distinction . |
| 8 | Whereas we have , or can afford to buy , the equipment and expertise in print production which makes relatively small print-runs but high production values viable , we can not do the same so readily and so confidently for , say , CD-ROM . |
| 9 | I do n't know whether she makes that much money |
| 10 | Such a restructuring of the education system is something that Warnock ( 1988 ) points to as being long overdue , but she makes only fleeting references to the implications that this might have for special needs . |
| 11 | We have n't been able to locate anyone who makes exactly that bird house ( it may even have been especially made ) . |
| 12 | It would fit the teaching of Paul , who makes just this contrast between the law and the Spirit in 2 Corinthians 3 ; it would fit Hebrews chapters 8 and 10 . |
| 13 | COLIN MONTGOMERIE is in the best possible frame of mind this week as he makes yet another attempt to win a golf title in 1992 . |
| 14 | And with or without his full quota of words he makes as much noise as anyone in what is a rather riotous production . |
| 15 | And with or without his full quota of words he makes as much noise as anyone in what is a rather riotous production . |
| 16 | ‘ He makes so much steam and smoke you can never see him . |
| 17 | And they do n't like him there cos he makes too much noise . |
| 18 | Maybe the farmer or his tenant will ask for a percentage of the kill within the agreement , but it makes jolly good sense to ensure that anyone who likes to eat a rabbit and who can influence your sport is well looked after . |
| 19 | It makes even worse reading and it distresses me to have to bring it to the attention of the House . |
| 20 | If someone has to break a window and knock out all the glass it makes even more noise . |
| 21 | One thing 's for certain , though : committing this kind of money on equipment is a serious business , so buying all the components from the same company makes sense from the back-up point of view , and as the hard work has been taken out of the design — ie. flightcase , patch cables , mains feeds etc. — it makes even more sense . |
| 22 | It makes even less sense in view of the collapse of the TUC 's regional day-release programme . |
| 23 | It is grown in tiny quantities in the northern Rhone at Condrieu and Chateau-Grillet , where it makes utterly delicious whites at £15 — £30 a bottle . |
| 24 | Consumers pay prices equal to marginal costs and this brings forth exactly enough output from the industry in the sense that it makes just sufficient firms viable . |
| 25 | It it does it makes far more sense |
| 26 | It makes far more sense to do two for the first day , then you can judge how many you can get through in a day from those two . |
| 27 | It would , however , be rather contentious to describe the men 's conversation as illogical , since it makes perfectly good sense . |
| 28 | " I " m not so young as I used to was " is wrong , except that when Somerset Maughan makes a Cockney landlady say it , it makes perfectly good sense . |
| 29 | But here it is , all five foolscap pages , and it makes quite interesting reading . |
| 30 | His basic criticism of the system is that it makes little sense on the level of integrity because it makes only superficial sense of human desire and action and , therefore , only poor sense of human happiness . |