Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] makes [adj] [noun] " 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 | In such circumstances he needs all the help that it makes economic sense to provide . |
5 | It is just that the structure of the viral RNA happens to be such that it makes cellular machinery chum out copies of itself . |
6 | That argument has to rest on the principle that it makes other owners of Utterly Dependables feel better if everyone has one ! |
7 | He argued that education for understanding can only be regarded as successful to the extent that it makes behavioural outcomes unpredictable . |
8 | Can I ask you about er the medium range surface to air missile because er , you wo n't be surprised to learn , that er the committee 's received a number of submissions on this matter er which suggest that er er t to proceed with Eurofighter two thousand without the medium range surface to air missile er I mean to be put rather bluntly to us , that it makes little sense to proceed with the aircraft without a replacement for blood hound . |
9 | We must ensure that it makes proper progress through the House , receives proper scrutiny and is on the statute book before any rude interruptions . |
10 | It is ironic that IT makes fundamental change both essential and possible , but — to repeat — we need the change anyway . |
11 | An example of this is the way that he makes big things seem really unimportant , and trivialities seem very important . |
12 | And it makes great reading … |
13 | European manufacturers invariably make plain tiles alongside their interlocking tiles , and it makes good sense for a manufacturer to be able to offer both types of product . |
14 | Skills that he wishes to rehearse with them may be part of the programme of another department also , and it makes good sense to have some consultation and perhaps co-ordination . |
15 | Have it written as a P E P and it makes good sense . |
16 | He says there are a number of ecological as well as economic reasons — it 's a longer , stronger tougher fibre — it makes a longer-lasting paper and it makes economic sense to grow the material in this country rather than importing it . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | To this need the underclass responds , and it makes urban life at the comfortable levels of well-being not only pleasant but possible . |
19 | It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff . |
20 | And it makes obvious sense to say that autonomous institutions are not necessarily homes of academic freedom . |
21 | But if it makes easy sense when we learn that after the ground clearing achieved in the early publications Joyce sets to work on an enormous new fictional venture , guesses about new preoccupations and the leaving behind of old collapse in face of the reality of Ulysses , for in it we read , among a thousand turnings and an wanderings , of a single day , the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and four , in Dublin , and how two characters , separately and together , live out that day among the welter of their acquaintance , their needs and deeds and thoughts , their places of refuge and of risk , and if one of these two , Leopold Bloom , is new , the other is Stephen Daedalus , and Dublin is everywhere in the novel , almost to the point where everywhere is Dublin . |
22 | As a final point about the root definition , it is sometimes useful to express it as a statement to see if it makes reasonable sense , and to double-check that all the CATWOE factors have been considered . |
23 | ‘ But she makes nice chocolate cake and she 's handy when the cook 's on holiday , ’ she admitted as she examined her face in the shine . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | This need not be a problem , especially as each will have a different approach to the same material , but it makes obvious sense on many counts if the teachers are each prepared for this by consultation . ) |
26 | But it makes commercial sense for them to respond to pressure . |
27 | A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world . |
28 | Putting names to faces : You may wish to be able to look at someone and think instantly of his name because it makes social life so much easier ; or you may wish to improve your chances of impressing a business acquaintance ( and possibly making a deal as a result ) . |
29 | In reply , Freud considers the rationalist argument that murder is not engaged in because it makes social life impossible if anyone is allowed to murder anyone else . |
30 | Whether it makes good history or not is another matter . |