Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] make [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marr technique of painting is to go and visit the subject , where she makes copious notes on eye colour and other little idiosyncrasies that will help catch the soul of the dog . |
| 2 | One is the ‘ clean sheet approach ’ , where you make copious notes on everything to do with a person 's behaviour . |
| 3 | He was later Head of the Unemployment Benefit Service , which he managed with great skill , and where he made many friends . |
| 4 | Yvonete , who works in the nearby cigarette factory , takes us to her husband 's workshop , where he makes wooden effigies of the Christ of Rio for sale to tourists . |
| 5 | The natural habitat is the coastal waters of West Africa between the Rivers Senegal and Congo , where it makes occasional excursions into freshwater . |
| 6 | Streets or parks are too theatrical for me to be at ease , so I make bad moves , exaggerate or , more often , under-bid . |
| 7 | Then on the opposite page I saw ‘ insurance ’ and thought that looks interesting , so I made some enquiries . |
| 8 | ‘ His solution that we make individual donations to the aid agencies is extraordinary . ’ |
| 9 | Only that we would want all students to experience these things to the fullest , so that they all have varied and rich experiences in all these spheres , and that we make special efforts to provide the time and space for the students to explore and develop their abilities and inclinations to learn and develop personal qualities without being directed . |
| 10 | ‘ We always boasted that we made 29 films with one script — now we have made 30 , ’ laughs Peter , 78 . |
| 11 | name ; is a very respectable cook , so we make occasional trips to the supermarket and to the open market , and then eat at home in the evening , although we can also go out to a restaurant for a meal if we want , as someone has now kindly lent us a car . |
| 12 | In the course of doing so money will have to be spent on cleaning up the Six ( and , no doubt , eventually , the Soviet Union , too ) to ensure that they make respectable cohabitants of the new Europe which various leaders from Gorbachev to Delors to François Mitterrand have envisaged . |
| 13 | Modern breeds of these homing pigeons return so reliably and are so tame and amenable that they make excellent subjects with which to investigate the homing ability . |
| 14 | So although the two models are observationally equivalent they are different in that they make different predictions about what would happen if the economic environment changed . |
| 15 | And so great was the love of the people for Elvis that they made many laws . |
| 16 | I am absolutely confident that Dr. Church and his partners are not unique and that many other doctors are in the same position , in the sense that they made financial investments during 1989-91 and the payments that they received from the fund were limited by the operation of the list size criterion . |
| 17 | Taking into account the fact that they made fewer comments about individual types of credit than men , women 's comments were more likely to be that they did not know how a type of credit worked than men 's ; and less likely to say that it was easy to understand and use . |
| 18 | that sort of thing , so they make some things and sell them . |
| 19 | The creation of the autonomous region had been opposed by the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNFL ) , the largest of the separatist guerrilla organizations , on the grounds that it made insufficient concessions to Moslem autonomy and failed to meet the terms of the 1976 Tripoli Accord [ see p. 28440 ] . |
| 20 | From my discussions with British Rail , I know that it made specific proposals for the diversion of at least four of the crossings and that the Ramblers Association objected to them all . |
| 21 | It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals . |
| 22 | That argument has to rest on the principle that it makes other owners of Utterly Dependables feel better if everyone has one ! |
| 23 | He argued that education for understanding can only be regarded as successful to the extent that it makes behavioural outcomes unpredictable . |
| 24 | A particular advantage of the telephone interview method is that it makes less demands on the time of managers than conventional ‘ face-to-face ’ interviews . |
| 25 | Although I have fundamental disagreements with the Minister on many issues , I acknowledge that he made many concessions to the logical arguments of hon. Members from the three Opposition parties involved . |
| 26 | Of course it 's possible that he made other calls not in the line of business . ’ |
| 27 | I am satisfied that the deceased encouraged the plaintiff in the belief that all the property he possessed at the date of his death would pass to her , and I do not consider that the fact that he made certain gifts during his lifetime , and indicated a wish to make others , including the gift of a legacy to the plaintiff 's son is inconsistent with such a belief . |
| 28 | It is , however , certain that Molla Fenari was in Karaman at a date much later than Bayezid I 's reign , as will be shown ; and as there is no evidence to suggest a journey before 800/1397 or to support the possibility that he made two journeys to Karaman , it seems justifiable to treat the Taskopruzade story with some caution . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ He has fudged and shaded , and tried to get away from the fact that he made specific statements and those statements were wrong . |
| 30 | He was well aware that he made young men look badly dressed and ill-mannered . |