Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winsor & Newton make three alkyd mediums in total ; Liquin , Wingel and Oleopasto . |
| 2 | ‘ I have always been interested in woodwork but do n't have the artistic skills or patience to make fine furniture , ’ he said . |
| 3 | In the late forties and the early fifties , every new member of the Wine and Food Society received , together with a copy of the current number of the Society 's quarterly magazine and a membership card , a pamphlet entitled Pottery , or Home Made Potted Foods , Meat and Fish Pastes , Savoury Butters and Others . |
| 4 | The 1981 English House Condition Survey ( Department of the Environment 1982 ) supports the general urban-rural differences found in 1976 , although slight changes in surveyors ' classifications of district as rural , urban or conurbations make precise comparisons difficult . |
| 5 | Where workers make sharp equipment , or use machines with cutting edges and moving parts , use of adequate guarding is essential to maintain safety in their environment . |
| 6 | Timothy Gedge was as ordinary as anyone else , but the ill fortune of circumstances or nature made ordinary people eccentric and lent them colour in the greyness . |
| 7 | All those surveyed by Caterer & Hotelkeeper made sure charges were displayed and also offered guests the choice of using telephone call boxes in the hotel lobby . |
| 8 | It is all well and good for Chris Baines to talk of office workers who can work at home and use the phone , or executives making better use of their travel time and less use of their cars . |
| 9 | In 1821 Neill MacEachern & Co. made 6798 gallons of 70 proof at Daill . |
| 10 | In order to appreciate the factors which motivate a writer or speaker to make this kind of selection , one needs to think of the clause as a message rather than as a string of grammatical and lexical elements . |
| 11 | Only Dottridge Brothers and Ingall , Parsons & Clive made any attempt at competing with the individual concerns . |
| 12 | The undue power of committee chairmen in relation to their colleagues was more of a problem in the House than in the Senate , but in the latter a system of legislative norms or folkways made possible dominance of the proceedings by leading members of the Senate inner club or establishment . |
| 13 | There is evidence that sons make considerable efforts to provide support for their parents even when they are in straitened circumstances themselves . |
| 14 | Although Byzantium made some inroads in Dalmatia during the next two centuries , the issue was finally settled in favour of Rome at the end of the ninth century by the Croatian prince Branimir ( 879–92 ) . |
| 15 | The aim of this study is to determine the economic and political factors which cause prices and incomes controls to be imposed and to determine their effects on economic variables taking into acount the possibility that decision-makers make informed guesses about the probability of the onset of controls and thus alter their behaviour from what it would otherwise have been . |
| 16 | Paying attention to biology need not involve assuming that biology makes fixed contributions to psychology ( Hirst and Wooley 1982 ) , or even that all biological discourses are the same . |
| 17 | She protests that allegations made this week are untrue and hurtful . |
| 18 | He claims that professionals make important contributions to the functional well-being of society and in addition , their services are highly regarded in terms of society 's values . |
| 19 | Premack 's tests ( Premack 1976 ) to establish that chimpanzees make rudimentary connections between ‘ states of affairs ’ ( in order not to beg the more refined question of objectuality within them ) which to us appear closely connected by virtue of a cause and an effect , or by virtue of an implicit goal or problem and a means or stratagem , seem to the layman to support attributions to chimps of protean correlates of human categories of thought . |
| 20 | There is a common , whispered suspicion that lawyers make legal documents unecessarily long because they are paid by the word or by the inch . |
| 21 | Neither the later edition of Butcher , which contains a few additions , nor Howgrave nor Peck make any reference to the incident . |
| 22 | There is no need to tell everyone all the details , any more than Peter makes any mention or testimony in his letters about the day he messed it up . |
| 23 | Most staff are untrained and there is as yet little evidence that training makes much difference to the quality of care ( Sinclair , 1988b , p. 270 ) . |
| 24 | Although kings made sporadic efforts to reform , to Purge and reorganize , again ultimately only the nineteenth century brought the abundance which permitted a system to organize the State and curb some of the worst excesses . |
| 25 | Initially there appeared to be little to choose between them , but careful comparative trials showed that Marsilid made more contribution than isoniazid to the improvements in appetite and the weight gain . |
| 26 | It will take more than oil to make those wheels turn . |
| 27 | We in the prosperous West have learnt that women make capable company directors , surgeons , politicians . |
| 28 | Thus it would be perfectly possible for a sexist to argue from the very findings reported in this chapter that women make poor leaders and high-pressure salespersons because of their lack of assertiveness , whereas they make good carers ( nurses , home helps and so on ) because of their sensitivity to the needs of other people in conversation . |
| 29 | If , as linguists argue , the strength of these ties correlates with the degree to which speech reflects nonstandard ( vernacular ) norms , the finding that men are more nonstandard than women makes perfect sense . |
| 30 | ADT alleges that Binders made negligent misrepresentations during its 1990 takeover of Britannia Security Group . |