Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the mesh , she told Sally the next time she saw her , I 'm sorry I made that mistake about you having a sister she said to Sally , I 've written to tell mother you 've said you have n't one she must of been mistaken what your mother said . |
| 2 | Actually I was so anxious to have him that I would have said anything — but I did put my marriage first , I made that choice , and although it meant I had many , many years of frustration as an actress , I 'm not sorry I made that choice . |
| 3 | Yet the war goes on and more arrivals — veterans of the Khmer Rouge , the South Vietnamese army , the Salvadorean death squads — come to replace the lucky few who make enough money to escape the war of Los Angeles . |
| 4 | Mr Stan Cardwell MBE , co-founder of the North-East ramblers ' association , said : ‘ His style was one of cooperation , not confrontation , and through this he made many friends , not least among the farming community , where he was regarded highly for his expertise on rights of way matters . |
| 5 | He was given an ancient , unreliable car and in this he made long journeys and addressed crowded meetings . |
| 6 | In the competition between varying possible principles applicable , that which makes certain covenants and in restraint of trade unenforceable will in some circumstances be strong enough to prevail . |
| 7 | The burning question for the poverty lobby is from where and how , particularly given the Fowler reviews in 1986 which made wide-ranging cuts and changes to the social security system . |
| 8 | To establish 1.9.16 we make some definitions and proofs relating to Z[x] . |
| 9 | As dean of Winchester he was an active servant of James I. Between 1616 and 1621 he made repeated visits to Scotland on royal business , accompanying the king in 1617 , and attending the general assembly in Perth ( 1618 ) in support of the king 's ‘ Five Articles ’ of ceremonial reform . |
| 10 | In 1963 he made few changes to Adenauer 's cabinet and emphasised the element of continuity in government , though his personal style was very different to that of ‘ the old man ’ . |
| 11 | It is the completion of the Trans-Mediterranean pipeline in June 1984 which makes this expansion possible . |
| 12 | Still there you are , glad somebody making some profit , just shows what we do buy , do n't we ? |
| 13 | For in fact I , as I said I 'm glad you made that point , it does press upon the er people in Bedford yesterday , in as not as well as that , that there 's , there 's point in that er , there was some |
| 14 | When planted in threes or fives they make good clumps to grow and flower above other plantings . |
| 15 | From 1920 he made regular appearances on Broadway and on tour in America , finally achieving fame in 1921 as the temple priest in The Green Goddess with George Arliss [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | Between June 1958 and December 1960 he made eight trips to Algeria . |
| 17 | Back in January 1980 we made ten predictions about the decade ahead — and offered free resubscription forms to all readers if we scored less than five out of ten . |
| 18 | When we feel guilty we make other people feel that way as a denial of our own sense of pain . |
| 19 | Counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the respondents instructed in connection with the present petition submitted to the Court of Appeal and to the Board a consent memorandum dated 28 April 1992 which makes this position clear . |
| 20 | We personally think that many who make poor choices are aware of such commonsense criteria but choose to ignore it . |
| 21 | At five-thirty they made gentle love ; then Felicity ran a bath . |
| 22 | I 'm sure he makes some sort of reaction I ca n't see . |
| 23 | In 1992 it made pre-tax profits of £4.6m on sales of £80m . |
| 24 | In another way , however , it can be seen as responsibly encouraging readers to challenge for themselves cultural codes and established patterns of thought , including some of those which make contemporary history so intractable . |
| 25 | Then you have to divide them up into those which make slender trees and others which remain as bushes with a fountain-like outline . |
| 26 | Every plant must earn its keep in a small garden — so those which make good garden plants and provide fresh and dried material for flower arranging must be top of the list . |
| 27 | It has been made clear from the outset that the Board 's remit extends over some 350 institutions ; in other words , it is concerned not just with the 90 or so establishments substantially engaged in public sector higher education that would have come within the aegis of the Green Paper 's Model B , but with virtually all those which make some provision for higher education . |
| 28 | Breastfeeding may be best — but is n't it time for all those who make non-breastfeeding mothers feel guilty to mind their own business ? |
| 29 | It follows that the meaning of ontological claims becomes fully transparent only if such claims are seen in the context of certain life-modalities of those who make such claims ; in effect , all such claims become interpretable as forms of man " sown self-understanding . |
| 30 | The project has practical relevance to managers , their employers , unions and for those who make public policy on management and industrial relations . |