Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were situated in positions which made them visible from the pests on each side . |
| 2 | They were actuated by entirely unselfish motives and their training in trade union work made them invaluable in the most important work — picketing at the entrances to the docks " . |
| 3 | This is what made them anxious about the attitudes of powerful men in their societies — rulers , great magnates — towards the churches of which they considered themselves the lords . |
| 4 | The birthright of the Shepherds made them immune from the laws that governed others . |
| 5 | Both campaigns struggled , I believe that this was what made them different from the rest of the fleet . |
| 6 | Early Han overian governments could be viciously repressive , especially in Scotland after the Forty-Five , but their very unpopularity made them careful about the way they treated English grievances . |
| 7 | You did n't run — that only made them eager for the chase . |
| 8 | Mike Benton 's ideas are reminiscent of those of Tony Swain and Gillian Cooper-Driver who proposed that dinosaurs became extinct through their dietary requirements They suggested that the development of alkaloidal synthesis of cyanogenic glycoside precursors in the early angiosperms made them unpalatable to the dinosaurs , effectively starving them into extinction . |
| 9 | When they were bulging-full , he stitched them closed with a curved needle and woollen thread and laid them ready in a pile . |
| 10 | It was broadly the premise of those movements that science and technology were evil , totalitarian and devoid of the attributes which could make them amenable to the " human spirit " . |
| 11 | It MIGHT make them tired at the end of the season — but the confidence they would gain would more than compensate . |
| 12 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |
| 13 | The militants are split between degrees of intransigence , which could make them vulnerable at the polls . |
| 14 | But that would make them vulnerable to a surprise attack . |
| 15 | However , it will never make them rich in the same way that potentially having an independent company and taking that to the market would have . |
| 16 | ‘ We have here not a few whose high office would make them suitable for the position , ’ he said . |
| 17 | I mean , that you should make them sensible by the Mildness of your carriage , and the composure even in your correction of them , that what you do is reasonable in you and useful and necessary for them . |
| 18 | Britain 's main clearing banks are reviewing their lending policies in the light of a draft EC directive which would make them liable for the clean-up costs of their industrial clients , should the latter go into liquidation . |
| 19 | That might make me popular in the colleges ( laughs ) . ’ |
| 20 | This stand does not make me blind to the distress others feel or to the disillusionment that this issue causes . |
| 21 | My deliberate actions are means to ends , and are defended in debate by proving them adequate to the ends . |
| 22 | The international action made me aware of the necessity for international co-operation in the fight for the fundamental rights of man and reassured me that human compassion is still alive in this world . |
| 23 | The Moghul tombs , the Red Fort , the towering minarets of the Jami Masjid , made me aware for the first time of the significance of civilization , and the meaning of history . |
| 24 | I tried to become one with nature on the games-field , which made me unpopular with the enthusiastic cricketers . |
| 25 | If a school can tailor its in-house courses and make them relevant to the needs of the whole school staff , then the dynamics of that collective and shared experience may provide greater rewards . |
| 26 | This is the idea that crime and deviance have positive qualities and consequences that make them necessary for the healthy functioning of society . |
| 27 | Do n't write out cheques to your adviser — always make them payable to the company you 're investing in . |
| 28 | As far as the debtor 's obligations are concerned , he must retain possession of the goods and make them available for the creditor to collect , taking reasonable care of them in the meantime ( s72(4) ) . |
| 29 | ‘ I would envisage a process of discovery , so each party would list documents in their possession and make them available to the other parties . ’ |
| 30 | Lévi-Strauss accepted the traditional role of anthropology to ‘ explain' the differences of alien cultures in ways that make them recognisable as the same ‘ underneath ’ . |