Example sentences of "[adj] make [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I am free to make some phone calls , am I ?
2 The company argues that since it is neither government-owned nor a sole supplier , it should be free to make any purchasing decisions it sees fit , without having to pay the Commission 's 3% tariff penalty against telecommunications equipment from outside the Community .
3 And Hewlett-Packard has shown itself willing to make regular infilling acquisitions as it has grown — the company was heavily castigated for the price it paid for Apollo Computer Inc , but without Apollo , it would not be in anything like such a strong position today .
4 Countries can think about widespread famine and the international organization needed to deal with it , but it is not easy to make detailed plans years in advance of the crisis .
5 Cohen , however , found it impossible to make this approach work as a result of a confrontation with the kabaka in 1953 , and by 1955 Buganda had confirmed its special constitutional status within Uganda , a status which was if anything reinforced in the independence constitution of 1962 .
6 Value Added Tax ( VAT ) is not payable as the school is part of a non-profit making educational charity trust ( no. 270860 ) .
7 The Vice-Chancellor 's message to all departments , as circulated to Standing Committee of Senate , is that it is imperative to make increased student recruitment a top priority for the coming year .
8 If Christmas or the Summer holidays are approaching and people are likely to make bigger cash withdrawals , banks may decide to hold more liquid assets .
9 Marc Renault of Fimagest , a French fund manager , reckons 1993 's privatisations will also be aided by the fact that few French companies are likely to make big rights issues in the middle of a recession .
10 As Campbell ( 1980 , p. 13 ) has pointed out ‘ the Mondragon planners have decided that there is a limit to the number of people able to make industrial democracy work ‘ under one roof ’ .
11 It is as if by being able to make moral judgements people recognise , not simply an additional technical possibility , but something to which they wish to give ultimate significance .
12 Enhancement of the NHS domain was certainly at the core of the initiative , perhaps because many informed observers thought that members of health authorities would , in the future , become both more representative of the population served and better able to make local management innovations in service .
13 In other words designers at DEC may have been able to make some process concessions to achieve a record clock rate that might not be appropriate for other architectures .
14 SALES of new cars may be falling — 20 per cent lower last year than in 1990 — but Ford still leads the shrinking market , and derives some comfort from not being able to make enough diesel engines to meet the demand .
15 Since magistrates are no longer able to make approved school orders , it appears that some are sending children to the higher courts for possible custodial sentences .
16 It is n't often that unions have taken up issues such as racial or sex discrimination or unfair dismissal , and when workers have come out on strike they have usually been slow and reluctant to make these strikes official .
17 Absolutely , and you will find when we look on the video the number of people who held up a piece of paper if you hold things up and I 'm holding this now because I 'm about to write but if if you stand here and hold a piece of paper then it 's very difficult to make symmetrical palm gestures , open palm gestures .
18 Partly this is the E of EMU ( economic and monetary union ) — the fiscal discipline thought necessary to make monetary union work .
19 SHARP TO MAKE SUPERTWIST COLOUR PANELS IN THE US
20 For instance in general , it is not possible for most goods to trade present amounts of them for future amounts nor is it possible to make such contracts conditional on some outside events like the weather .
21 I have also been asked whether it would be possible to make partial exemption orders under section 48(1) of the Shops Act .
22 If the basis were significantly positive just prior to the delivery day , it would be possible to make substantial arbitrage profits by selling futures contracts and at the same time buying the underlying cash market goods in order to deliver them to the buyers of the contracts .
23 Mr Parrish said it was most unusual to have a planning inquiry with several options but the NGC said it was quite normal to make such planning applications .
24 If work is short in one place but available elsewhere within the area , there will be no redundancy situation and the employer can dismiss without being liable to make any redundancy payment .
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