Example sentences of "[be] [adj] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also a practical answer to the difficulties of continuing to maintain and staff isolated institutions in an age when few people are prepared to make a career in residential work . |
| 2 | my Lord , my Lord erm my Lord that really brings me to what are , er my conclusions , my Lord erm , can I just practice my conclusions with two erm comments , first of all about the , the my learned friend seems to paint erm in relation to this of course Mr made a point quite strongly that he agrees this is a relevant consideration and that er have exaggerated the situation and if they are willing to make a point a like this it would require evidence , they did point to their accounts , Lord erm I do n't see to put in evidence , but the , the statutory statement of business served er filed by on the first of September this year with the D T I , revealed that has a total of sixteen and a half billion in it 's members premium trust funds which is up four billion from the end of the previous year , erm , set against that the claims now made against the names is , is relatively speaking er small , erm my Lord |
| 3 | ‘ I should n't think there have been any shortage of women in your life who would have been delighted to make a home for you anywhere in the world ! ’ she told him waspishly , disliking the way he was making her feel a little sorry for him . |
| 4 | ’ But why is it the only time you take risks is when you 're likely to make a profit. ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You 're enough to make a saint lose her temper , ’ Robbie told him , trying vainly to escape his hold . |
| 6 | ‘ Be careful , Your Highness , or you 're liable to make a spectacle of yourself . ’ |
| 7 | In this way , it is often possible for organisations to get a clearer idea as to which potential expatriate couples are likely to make a success of their assignments overseas . |
| 8 | You are likely to make a success of meetings by recognising when others are using tactics such as these . |
| 9 | You are likely to make a mess of it , lose your To Do list or confront people in an attacking rather than a rational way . |
| 10 | At the beginning of a career , any band 's tours are likely to make a loss . |
| 11 | But the Football Association are unlikely to make a decision on his three-year reign until they return from the trip to America , and they may delay until the FA summer meeting in Bournemouth on June 26 . |
| 12 | Congressmen are reluctant to make a defence cut that might pain them in their own districts . |
| 13 | The victims of harassment are reluctant to make a complaint for a number of reasons . |
| 14 | Additionally , human readers are able to make a multitude of inferences about the sentences within a discourse . |
| 15 | Powerful actors , especially , are able to make a difference to things ; for example King Louis XV 's lasciviousness made him indulgent toward Madame de Pompa-dour , who was therefore able to protect the position of the incompetent General Soubise in spite of the fact that his army was unreliable in defending France 's military interests . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , of course we 'd have carried on if we 'd been able to make a living at it . |
| 17 | But seriously , there is something of a revival just like everywhere else at the moment , although blues has always had a strong following in Australia — that 's why I 've been able to make a living all these years . |
| 18 | However , it may be possible to make a case for a higher proportion of grant aid if the resources available are very limited . |
| 19 | Where such expenditure is a new cost incurred through Compact it may be possible to make a case to the Training Agency . |
| 20 | Since the example taken was entirely at random and 292 is a statistically significant proportion of the total number of libraries , it may be possible to make a hypothesis on the basis of this graph . |
| 21 | It would be possible to make a correction for voltage variations on the basis of these figures . |
| 22 | She splashed water on her face , wishing she had her overnight case up here with her , wondering if it would be possible to make a deal with Ace . |
| 23 | After that it would be simpler to make a journey into the country than to find an excuse to walk through the hospital doors . |
| 24 | Maxwell suggested that the government might be prepared to make a grant equal to the amount collected by the refugee organisations . |
| 25 | I believe that transport policy researcher , Stuart Cole , whom we have asked to chair the study , has been in touch with you to ask if you would be prepared to make a contribution by joining the steering group . |
| 26 | Following this , the children come to realise that pictures are part of a tradition ; finally , children may be prepared to make a judgement going beyond an individual culture . |
| 27 | The apostle Peter told his friends : always be prepared to make a defence for the hope that is in you . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , you must be prepared to make a statement to the police . |
| 29 | Keith felt that after a five-year relationship , Valerie should be prepared to make a commitment . |
| 30 | Mr Hayton said he would be willing to make a presentation of the computer findings to councillors and if the results could be challenged , they would be re-examined . |