Example sentences of "[pron] make [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's quite funny watching them make complete fools of themselves . |
| 2 | Nearly everyone made some kind of a contribution . |
| 3 | Shall I make another pot of tea . |
| 4 | And did n't I make some sort of arrangement to meet somebody ? |
| 5 | I had a friend who suffered from twisted testicles so I made sure part of my sponsorship arrangement is that I 'm provided with decent shorts with inner briefs that give me support . |
| 6 | And then I , and I made this bit of a faux pas , I says , oh you must have got a very good rate , cos I knew she 'd been retired years and years , you see . |
| 7 | I made a hand winch with a double handle and a ratchet and room for half a kilometre of twine on the drum ; I made different types of tails for the kites that needed them , and dozens of kites large and small , some stunters . |
| 8 | PAMELA : I made common talk of it , sir ! |
| 9 | Hopefully I have improved in that regard and perhaps also I make better assessment of what is on . |
| 10 | ‘ I make two requests of you . |
| 11 | Then using white butter icing I make two sets of icing , say pink and white , and cover half the cakes with a layer of white and half with a layer of pink , decorate some with chocolate strands and some with hundreds and thousands ( sprinkleys ) . |
| 12 | I make full use of our consultative committee , and our sales team of selected departure members who meet to suggest marketing , promotional and in-house selling ideas . |
| 13 | Sub-paragraph 13 of paragraph 12 provided that all written statements made under caution should be in accordance with Annex D , paragraph 2 of which provided that where a person wished to write his own statement , he should be asked to write out and sign before so doing : ‘ I make this statement of my own free will . |
| 14 | As to the first question I make these findings of fact . |
| 15 | The taste for sweet and highly spiced food , which made little use of the plants which grew easily in our temperate Northern climate , may well have been brought back from the Holy Land by returning Crusaders . |
| 16 | According to the joint receiver , Ian Murdoch , of KPMG Peat Marwick , Levack , which made pre-tax profits of £240,000 on turnover of £22 million in 1991 , appears to have been undercapitalised . |
| 17 | But that should be offset by recovery from the bathroom and heating companies which made little-changed profits of £42.6m last year . |
| 18 | The Muslim community in Bradford , where Yasmin comes from , is very strong , and there had recently been a case which made national news of two Muslim sisters fighting for their right to wear their headscarves to school . |
| 19 | You made assumptions which made those parts of me invisible , that shamed it into retreat , that said , ‘ You 're really like us . |
| 20 | I had not yet learnt that every German soldier from private upwards had had an elementary political education which made this sort of argument child 's play for him . |
| 21 | Caretaker wondered if there was something in the syntax of the Welsh language which made this sort of construction more acceptable in Welsh than it was in English . |
| 22 | However , following the two oil price shocks it was decided that the country 's vulnerability ( as Europe 's largest oil importer ) to crude price rises meant that a policy which made more use of the country 's abundant coal resources and reduced oil dependence should be followed . |
| 23 | History teaching had been developing along lines which made more use of reference and local source material , while IS , which involved history , science , geography , and religious education ( RE ) , had been concerned with providing greater primary/secondary continuity in the first-year curriculum , and with developing , through an interdisciplinary base , essential learning skills . |
| 24 | The affair was seized on by the Soviet conservative press , which made particular note of the implication in the deal that Rbs140,000 million was worth US$7,500 million , which suggested a calculation based on the black-market exchange rate . |
| 25 | The conditions of use to which all users are required to agree insist among other things that users should not attempt to identify particular individuals or households , that the data should only be used for academic purposes , and that any publications which make extensive use of the data should acknowledge this . |
| 26 | This may be because they are not working full-time or are not doing jobs which make full use of their abilities . |
| 27 | I think there are aspects of the world in which we live and , and er , in which the church lives which make common confession of faith particularly difficult er today . |
| 28 | Kitajenko encourages extremes of legato , usually at very slow tempi which make heavy weather of the opening sections , completely robbing the music of any momentum or atmosphere . |
| 29 | How much I welcome NEC , Motorola and the other companies , which make large numbers of mobile phones in this country in response to the strength of the cellular mobile phone market . |
| 30 | Environmentalists have joined with racing enthusiasts and the Utah Film Commission , which makes extensive use of the flats , in an unusual alliance aimed at their preservation . |