Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Maynard Smith , who was Haldane 's pupil , says his most remarkable piece of foresight was the suggestion in 1941 , 12 years before the structure of DNA was elucidated , that genes would replicate semi-conservatively , that is , by a molecule splitting in two and each half making a mirror image of itself . |
| 2 | Some continued to make a stance and in 1982 I worked with a sergeant who lovingly took out his old city cap each nightshift and wore it as a symbol of everything which had been lost in 1969 , when , as the station graffiti had then affirmed , ‘ T.J.F. ’ and a fall from Eden had occurred . |
| 3 | Six so six twelfths makes a half . |
| 4 | All this makes a boy something . |
| 5 | How many hund how many hundredths makes a quarter , in other words ? |
| 6 | All three made a delegation to the head teacher 's office the next day . |
| 7 | Very good erm alright go for an impossible one how many mm how many twentieths make a whole ? |
| 8 | The power of the computer was indeed appreciated and used in the late 1960s to make a model of the world system . |
| 9 | I do not think that it will be difficult for all those present to make a contribution to the debate . |
| 10 | If you put yourself in each prisoner 's place , assuming both to be motivated by rational self-interest and remembering that they can not talk to one another to make a pact , you will see that neither has any choice but to betray the other , thereby condemning both to heavy sentences . |
| 11 | The Judge then awarded two thirds of all the costs of the defendants to be paid by the Crown Prosecution Service and as to one third made a Defendant 's costs order . |
| 12 | Part of tram route 12 was also converted and extended , running as 612 from the ‘ Prince 's Head ’ Battersea to Mitcham , Fair Green , largely over the same roads as 630. 612 made a loop round the Fair Green as a terminal . |
| 13 | A night wind has blown the rain away , leaving behind pale grey rather than heavy grey clouds with , between them , enough blue to make a pair of sailor 's trousers — as my mother would say . |
| 14 | For I was looking for a job I was newly married in nineteen thirty six make a pound or two . |
| 15 | To describe these , it is necessary first to make a distinction between head-modifier constructions and head-complement constructions . |