Example sentences of "[conj] they make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And so great was the love of the people for Elvis that they made many laws . |
| 10 | There is no evidence to suggest that they made substantial wartime gains in terms of occupational pension entitlements . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | that sort of thing , so they make some things and sell them . |
| 15 | Once they made that decision it was really all over . |
| 16 | They disliked having so young a couple in the vicarage and they made that plain . |
| 17 | Well I , I , as I say , I did follow it up and in fact , I even went to a committee where I sat and spoke to the er the police face to face and they made all sorts of promises but nothing materialized . |
| 18 | peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border . |
| 19 | I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets . |
| 20 | Gloucester never got themselves into gear and they made hard work of what should have been a straightforward game … in the second half they hammered away at Scottish … all but lived on their line but failed to get over it … |
| 21 | AWARD-winning Belfast agency , A.V. Browne turned in a significant increase in sales , despite curtailment of advertising budgets last year , and they made another milestone in another direction . |
| 22 | A green salad can be enhanced by primrose and violet heads , and they make appealing decorations for a cake . |
| 23 | A green salad can be enhanced by primrose and violet heads , and they make appealing decorations for a cake . |
| 24 | The results are published this month ( page 20 ) and they make fascinating reading . |
| 25 | He says ‘ His rules made good sense then and they make better sense now as the pressures grow inexorably , yet they have been ignored in certain sensitive areas , with results which are both plain and heart-rending to see . ’ |
| 26 | I never thought er Mrs that I 'd be seeing , I 'd like to see the excreta first but er could it be , could it be a dormouse because they enjoy the insects and berries and they make similar type holes . |
| 27 | Their models are their own or each others ' motets and chansons and the chansons of such Parisian colleagues as Claudin de Sermisy , and they make fuller use of the whole polyphonic complex of the model than their predecessors had done : how flexibly may be seen by comparing the opening of the Kyrie of Clemens 's already mentioned Mass ‘ Misericorde ’ : with that of his chanson ‘ Misericorde au martir amoureulx ’ : Bars 3–5 of the Kyrie are not the extraneous interpolation they seem to be ; they come from bars 18–20 of the chanson : |
| 28 | Well here are the answers and they make shameful reading for Premier John Major . |
| 29 | Long-firmers are experienced manipulators , and they make entertaining company for both prisoners and staff . |
| 30 | And they make grim reading every time . |