Example sentences of "[pron] make [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | ‘ Let me make one thing clear . |
2 | Such clear-cut options rarely exist in practical politics , but the intractability of many rural problems and the growing cost of meeting them make clear-cut decisions necessary . |
3 | E/A kept on steady course at about 220mph until attacked , when he dived down to sea level at about 250–280pmh [ sic ] and I made two attacks one at 16000 when E/A took slight evasive action by executing gentle turns . |
4 | However the one thing that you must never do is to go between a cow and her calf and I made this mistake one morning and I had to take to my heals and run . |
5 | I made this device four years ago , and I now have no problems with herons or cats . |
6 | I remember making this point a couple of years ago , yeah I made this point last year and I showed these pictures , I spent about twenty minutes on it , the following week I was , I was libelously accused and it was a libel , it was a serious libel erm er that I , that I said that females always had to submit erm I was very angry about that . |
7 | The Christian disciple experienced this , though exiled on Patmos , and was compelled to articulate its renewing power : " Behold , I make all things new . " |
8 | Once started , she was difficult to stop : she had the trick of pausing in the middle of sentences rather than at their end , which made polite interruptions next to impossible . |
9 | But it would seem to be impossible for us to return to patristic sensibilities , for the framework of thought which made that Christology possible is no longer with us . |
10 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
11 | But towards the end of the eighteenth century the courts developed what Jay Cohen calls ‘ a more expansive definition ’ of the term , which made many non-traders eligible for discharge in bankruptcy . |
12 | The most significant developments occurred in Scandinavia where there was a long tradition of limited cooperation , or at least of a belief in a common cultural area which made such cooperation valuable , if not almost inevitable . |
13 | After the Reformation these traditions were regularized in a unique Poor Law which made each parish responsible for its own poor , and obliged it to finance its aid by levying a poor rate on its inhabitants . |
14 | Airbus , which made 71 aircraft last year , aims to make 162 in 1993 . |
15 | He had real charm , which made canny figures such as Tolkien distrust him . |
16 | However , none of the major stages in Tanzania 's development as a centralized socialist state were publicly discussed in any way which made open debate possible . |
17 | In 1914 the Board of Education initiated a new Education ( Provision of Meals ) Act which made this provision compulsory for all local authorities , provided an Exchequer subsidy , authorized feeding during school holidays and left the determination of need to the school medical officers who were to assess need purely on grounds of health rather than of parental income . |
18 | Nevertheless , contemporaries realised that the tradition which made foreign policy one of the most arcane aspects of government was being breached : a well-informed former diplomat noted that the laying of so much diplomatic correspondence before parliament was a " sort of new habit " . |
19 | I have mentioned that it was the pope 's consecration of Thurstan as archbishop of York without submission to Canterbury in October 1119 , followed by the failure of Archbishop Ralph 's letter to the pope stating the Canterbury case , which made stronger measures necessary . |
20 | One of the most difficult aspects of producing material to deal with the Social Security Act was the timing of its production and despatch in advance of the Act coming into force in April 1988 , and the constraints which made purposeful timing difficult . |
21 | Foucault argues that just as there can be no general theory of history , but only particular answers to particular questions which make individual practices intelligible , so the intellectual can best hope to be specific rather than universal ( universal in the sense of proposing transcendent values , systems , totalities , narratives or teleologies ) . |
22 | Ornaments , such as an interesting pot or a bust on a plinth , which make good daytime focal points , also look good at night . |
23 | There are restrictive physical and psychological limits to human abilities to predict options , process relevant information , and solve problems , which make comprehensive rationality impossible . |
24 | In the first part of a new series , MARTIN CHILD reveals the qualities which make certain brushes perfect for use with acrylic media . |
25 | It 's also because many standard features on other packages which make repetitive jobs easier — like palettes , layer management and gradient fills — would be welcomed with open arms by Illustrator users . |
26 | Infrared telescopes must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero to prevent their own heat radiation from swamping the faint signals from space : hence the liquid helium cooling systems which make infrared satellites complex and expensive . |
27 | For the discourse analyst , as an overhearer , those connections can signal the coherence relations which make each contribution relevant to the discourse as a whole . |
28 | Humanity , before it had acquired a strong enough intellect and developed science and technology , had achieved the instinctual renunciations which make communal life possible by using purely affective forces . |
29 | This form of markup may be useful in developing documents for hypertext systems , which make these relationships explicit through building links . |
30 | The facts that cause the beliefs those observations yield are the very facts which make those beliefs true . |