Example sentences of "[noun] and make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By notice of appeal dated 12 February 1991 Mr. Pierson appealed against that refusal on the grounds , inter alia , that the Divisional Court had erred ( 1 ) in ruling that it was not unlawful for the Secretary of State to increase the tariff recommended by the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge for the purposes of determining a prisoner 's first parole review date and ( 2 ) in ruling that Mr. Pierson was not entitled to know in advance the factors which the Secretary of State proposed to take into account in fixing the tariff and to make informed representations in the light of that knowledge . |
| 2 | A lifetime of measuring men 's inside legs and making weak jokes about dressing on the right side or the left — ‘ of the bedroom , I mean , sir ! |
| 3 | Leave blank lines between paragraphs and make frequent use of headings to hold the reader 's interest . |
| 4 | The secret for any cat-phobic individuals who want to keep their distance is to lean towards a cat , stare fixedly at it with wide-open eyes and make agitated hand movements , asking the cat in strident tones to come and sit on their laps . |
| 5 | Here , on an acre formerly abounding in thistles and docks , we have woven our own covert of windbreaks and fuchsia bushes and make great play of raising cabbages where cabbages — or at least , where sweetcorn , courgettes and petits pois — were hardly intended to grow . |
| 6 | As Masud 's forces closed on Kabul from the north and east , encountering little opposition and making fresh alliances along the way , fighters from Gulbuddin Hekmatyar 's rival , hardline Hezb-i-Islami closed on the city from the south and east . |
| 7 | Mr Lundy also wanted DIY stores themselves to learn from the tragedy and make greater effort to emphasise the dangers to the public and so attempt to cut the eight thousand accidents involving supermarket trollies every year . |
| 8 | Due to the technical complexity of some decisions , management jobs are often specialised by function , with managers being trained and developed to acquire the technical skills — in engineering knowledge , accountancy , personnel administration , marketing , and so on to run a functional department and make good management decisions for that department . |
| 9 | There are those who shake their heads and make negative noises about guidebooks like this , but there is an argument that says the publication of a Corbetts guide could take some of the pressure off the Munros . |
| 10 | The coalition had regard to-the- mechanics of the single transferable vote and made some attempt to match the number of candidates nominated with the support which those candidates might expect to attract in each constituency . |
| 11 | It is only through a combined approach that school will be enabled to deliver all their programmes of study and make enough time to do more . |
| 12 | Smurfit Paribas carried out a privatisation study and made significant borrowings available ; Smurfit Printing secured the lucrative telephone directory printing contract ; Smurfit architect Brian O'Halloran secured the commission for the controversial corporate headquarters ; business associates Padraic Hasset and John Finnegan were asked to find a site for Telecom headquarters ; Finnegan gave advice on the purchase of the Ballsbridge site ( he also apparently gave advice on its sale to UPH ) and finally Dermot Desmond was commissioned to carry out another privatisation study . |
| 13 | Girke 's surprising companion will be the architectural photographer Pedro Guerrero , now in his seventies , who in the 1940s photographed Taliesin in its early stages for Frank Lloyd Wright and made several portraits of Wright himself . |
| 14 | Sears is to dispose of its menswear division and , as part of its reorganisation of the British Shoe Corporation , the company is to close 350 shops and make 1,800 redundancies over the next three years . |
| 15 | As nothing was done , she borrowed the car and made several trips , Philip assisting , to the rubbish dumps . |
| 16 | We need to keep them within the national health service work force and to make better use of their additional skills . |
| 17 | Croatia officially severed relations with Yugoslavia as of Oct. 8 , in a move designed to identify the JNA as an invading force and to make Yugoslav law null and void on Croatian territory . |
| 18 | There were grocery shops who blended tea , sold afternoon tea dainties and made daily deliveries . |
| 19 | Some people seek to avoid privatized or nuclear-family living and make alternative household arrangements . |
| 20 | This system was not tolerated in pilot experiments , and we decided to perfuse an open segment of oesophagus and make appropriate corrections for contaminating saliva and refluxed gastric fluid . |
| 21 | Hopefully , he will pull through although at the moment he is a perfect illustration that rugby league 's vaunted reputation for picking talent and making hard-headed business decisions is so much hot air . |
| 22 | It has been estimated that up to 300 million tonnes of oil a year could be saved in the USSR by cutting waste , substituting gas for oil in industrial complexes and making more use of the vast coal reserves , but whether this will be achieved to any significant extent outside the essentially capitalist ethos where cost saving is an easily learned lesson , is doubtful . |
| 23 | The government 's anti-religious campaign in connection with the Church 's alleged refusal to donate money and valuables for the Famine crippled the reputation of church aid and made some priests unwilling to become entangled in relief work . |
| 24 | The purpose of this project is to develop appropriate statistical procedures , to test them using psychological data and to make available techniques for use by social scientists . |
| 25 | In each age they had different demands and made different choices for the use of the land . |
| 26 | ‘ The defendant had been personally negligent in that he had failed to take such steps and make such inquiries as would have revealed to him the defects in his structure and the risks of fire thereby occasioned . ’ |
| 27 | it compresses the model renewal interval , which increases the opportunities to modify designs and make better use of new technologies ; and |
| 28 | The couple 's company designs and makes decorative glassware and soft furnishings as well as offering a full design and decorating service . |
| 29 | International Metrology Systems ( Scotland ) is to invest £750,000 in a new research-based engineering plant at Livingston which designs and makes high precision measuring machines for the automotive , aerospace , defence and general engineering sectors . |
| 30 | As each generation reaches retirement age , their expectations may cause them to be more active in all of these areas and make greater demands on service providers . |