Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] makes [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marr technique of painting is to go and visit the subject , where she makes copious notes on eye colour and other little idiosyncrasies that will help catch the soul of the dog . |
| 2 | Yvonete , who works in the nearby cigarette factory , takes us to her husband 's workshop , where he makes wooden effigies of the Christ of Rio for sale to tourists . |
| 3 | The natural habitat is the coastal waters of West Africa between the Rivers Senegal and Congo , where it makes occasional excursions into freshwater . |
| 4 | That argument has to rest on the principle that it makes other owners of Utterly Dependables feel better if everyone has one ! |
| 5 | He argued that education for understanding can only be regarded as successful to the extent that it makes behavioural outcomes unpredictable . |
| 6 | A particular advantage of the telephone interview method is that it makes less demands on the time of managers than conventional ‘ face-to-face ’ interviews . |
| 7 | An example of this is the way that he makes big things seem really unimportant , and trivialities seem very important . |
| 8 | He stands alone — as Kenneth Clarke or David Ennals will confirm — and he makes few friends . |
| 9 | and in empirical sorry and in in empirical work we tend to use these nonlinear demand functions simply because they have this nice property that they have constant elasticity , and it makes subsequent calculations considerably easier , and you may think in actual fact that linear demand curves are quite restrictive . |
| 10 | It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff . |
| 11 | I 'm gon na , I 'm gon na get Scott tonight if he makes any comments and this fist is gon na go strop straight where it hurts . |
| 12 | Editor , — Nicholas Wald rightly emphasises the importance and the ethical nature of randomised multicentre prevention trials , but he makes two statements that can not go unchallenged . |
| 13 | But he makes new friends easily , and it was Prevert who once related the most revealing anecdote about Doisneau and his commitment to his accomplices . |
| 14 | A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world . |
| 15 | Stand over him while he makes those calls . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Cable should get his facts straight before he makes false allegations . |
| 17 | Before he makes wild aspersions about other people , he should visit the school in his constituency , where he will find excellent education going on . |
| 18 | TI says it has switched to a 0.7-micron process from 0.8 , and will be analysing product from every angle before it makes any declarations as to what it 's really getting . |
| 19 | It is least successful when it makes stereotypical assumptions about women : that they behave in certain ways because they are mothers , or because they do n't work outside the home , for example . |