Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
2 | Last month I went back over the past 40 years of owning knitting machines and described some of the ways that I made sufficient money for the machines to pay for themselves . |
3 | I mentioned the reduction in unemployment that has taken place in Holyhead , and , while the decrease has not been as good there as in some other areas , the announcements that I made this morning gave a priority to Holyhead . |
4 | I had a friend who suffered from twisted testicles so I made sure part of my sponsorship arrangement is that I 'm provided with decent shorts with inner briefs that give me support . |
5 | She told us that she made some toast , but not that she ate it . |
6 | So first and foremost let everyone see that you make common cause with the common people . |
7 | Therefore , because such an investment is strictly limited , it is vital that you make maximum use of your entitlement . |
8 | It is a modest mark of our gratitude to those with gifts and skills of writing that we make this increase to the Public Lending Right … ’ |
9 | So that 's where the money 's going , and we 're hoping that we make enough money in sponsorship so that the money we earn , people will know that it 's all going out to help the projects we want to , and it 's not being wasted on administration , especially after there 's been erm a bit of a debark over Sting 's money , where only 5% went to the Indians and also the Rainforest Foundation has since collapsed , so our head-office is going to be absolutely stringent about making sure that the money is spent where we 've asked it to be spent . |
10 | And what I 'm saying is that we make less cracker but with the advertising we 're doing doing at the moment , in the magazine and Yellow Pages and I just want to kind I 'm going to talk to you about what other ways of advertising . |
11 | We 've got attendance I was going to suggest that we made that attendance stroke punctuality |
12 | And it was on that basis that we made that statement there . |
13 | If we ca n't find Simonica 's mum we must prove that we made very effort to . |
14 | Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very long period of time stretching to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond . |
15 | Middlesbrough Bears 50 Long Eaton Invaders 39 BORO 'S unpredictable Bears grabbed their first league win of the season last night although they made hard work of it at a bitterly cold Cleveland Park . |
16 | To begin with , young girls and women are frequently told that they talk too much , that they make facile use of words , that they chatter idly . |
17 | The main advantage of compression joints is that they make complicated pipe runs much easier since the joints can all be assembled , tightened , slackened off again and the pipe rotated in the joint to get the position right before the nuts are all re-tightened . |
18 | The result is that they make less use of their linguistic resources than they do at home and have less opportunity to extend those they already possess , except perhaps in relation to the specific vocabulary associated with the tasks they are required to perform . |
19 | There is no evidence to suggest that they made substantial wartime gains in terms of occupational pension entitlements . |
20 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
21 | Once they made that decision it was really all over . |
22 | This is not the same as assessing its impact on the value of the company , although it makes some attempt to do this , as will be described shortly . |
23 | It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign . |
24 | It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign . |
25 | The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck . |
26 | At the meeting the SOC finally ceased its efforts to amend the UN draft plan so that it made explicit mention of " genocide " , in reference to the appalling human rights record of the Khmer Rouge government of the late 1970s . |
27 | Rather , the fact that it made any headway at all bears witness to the degree to which wide sections of the British public became alarmed by the apparent drift of Chamberlain 's foreign policy . |
28 | Not that it made any difference to the dead . |
29 | I recall from when I saw it later that it made excellent footage . |
30 | His basic criticism of the system is that it makes little sense on the level of integrity because it makes only superficial sense of human desire and action and , therefore , only poor sense of human happiness . |