Example sentences of "[noun pl] make the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chola reached up to the arch above the doorway add seven times made the same imprint with the pad of her thumb on to seven discs of semi-dried cow-dung . |
| 2 | 100 years ago a legion of artists and craftsmen made the same journey . |
| 3 | It is a scientific fact that empty vessels make the most noise . |
| 4 | The term that comes to mind and is much used by Germans in the training clubs is ‘ empty vessels make the most noise ’ . |
| 5 | Poor listeners often make irrelevant comments ; the most influential contributions do not necessarily come from those vessels making the most noise . |
| 6 | Michael Green draws attention to the fact that the Gospels represent an entirely new literary form , which was neither history , nor biography , but a highly selective weaving together of fragments using preaching and teaching ‘ arranged in order to show what sort of person Jesus was , to give the evidence on which the disciples had followed him and had adjudged him the Messiah and Son of God , and by the strongest possible implication , challenge the readers to make the same act of faith in Christ as they themselves had done ’ ( Green 1970:229 , 230 ) . |
| 7 | Most big banks make the same charges for club accounts as for ordinary personal ones — which means that you may have to pay up to 70 pence for every cheque you write . |
| 8 | The American neo-Lamarckians made the same point , arguing that the fossils seemed to support a theory of directed evolution , not one based on the selection of random variation by the local environment . |
| 9 | The parents ' lawyers made the same points . |
| 10 | Other European socialist thinkers made the same judgement , but some argued for diverse proletarian strategies , including reliance on trade union action and the strike weapon , or the creation of working-class communes outside capitalist relations , where a new civilization could be constructed piecemeal . |
| 11 | With three gearboxes making the same noise it seems to me a design fault , but is there a cure ? |
| 12 | Established by a commercial company , Freewheeling , the scheme seeks to match prospective travellers making the same journey in different cars , with a view to encouraging them to share vehicles . |
| 13 | And the first thing you learn is that all women make the same mistakes . |
| 14 | Probably all of us who would like to help others make the same error . |
| 15 | inserting common paragraphs , for example if half the students make the same mistake , it is useful for the marker to prepare a paragraph explaining the error , and to paste this into each of the documents he is returning to the errant students . |
| 16 | This month Janet Jackson signed a deal with Virgin Records to make the same amount of music for more than $30m . |
| 17 | We have for instance to transpose the freedom from fear into present circumstances and to help others to make the same journey . |