Example sentences of "[noun sg] and make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | By notice of appeal dated 12 February 1991 Mr. Pierson appealed against that refusal on the grounds , inter alia , that the Divisional Court had erred ( 1 ) in ruling that it was not unlawful for the Secretary of State to increase the tariff recommended by the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge for the purposes of determining a prisoner 's first parole review date and ( 2 ) in ruling that Mr. Pierson was not entitled to know in advance the factors which the Secretary of State proposed to take into account in fixing the tariff and to make informed representations in the light of that knowledge . |
| 2 | As Masud 's forces closed on Kabul from the north and east , encountering little opposition and making fresh alliances along the way , fighters from Gulbuddin Hekmatyar 's rival , hardline Hezb-i-Islami closed on the city from the south and east . |
| 3 | Mr Lundy also wanted DIY stores themselves to learn from the tragedy and make greater effort to emphasise the dangers to the public and so attempt to cut the eight thousand accidents involving supermarket trollies every year . |
| 4 | Due to the technical complexity of some decisions , management jobs are often specialised by function , with managers being trained and developed to acquire the technical skills — in engineering knowledge , accountancy , personnel administration , marketing , and so on to run a functional department and make good management decisions for that department . |
| 5 | The coalition had regard to-the- mechanics of the single transferable vote and made some attempt to match the number of candidates nominated with the support which those candidates might expect to attract in each constituency . |
| 6 | It is only through a combined approach that school will be enabled to deliver all their programmes of study and make enough time to do more . |
| 7 | Smurfit Paribas carried out a privatisation study and made significant borrowings available ; Smurfit Printing secured the lucrative telephone directory printing contract ; Smurfit architect Brian O'Halloran secured the commission for the controversial corporate headquarters ; business associates Padraic Hasset and John Finnegan were asked to find a site for Telecom headquarters ; Finnegan gave advice on the purchase of the Ballsbridge site ( he also apparently gave advice on its sale to UPH ) and finally Dermot Desmond was commissioned to carry out another privatisation study . |
| 8 | As nothing was done , she borrowed the car and made several trips , Philip assisting , to the rubbish dumps . |
| 9 | We need to keep them within the national health service work force and to make better use of their additional skills . |
| 10 | Croatia officially severed relations with Yugoslavia as of Oct. 8 , in a move designed to identify the JNA as an invading force and to make Yugoslav law null and void on Croatian territory . |
| 11 | Some people seek to avoid privatized or nuclear-family living and make alternative household arrangements . |
| 12 | This system was not tolerated in pilot experiments , and we decided to perfuse an open segment of oesophagus and make appropriate corrections for contaminating saliva and refluxed gastric fluid . |
| 13 | Hopefully , he will pull through although at the moment he is a perfect illustration that rugby league 's vaunted reputation for picking talent and making hard-headed business decisions is so much hot air . |
| 14 | The government 's anti-religious campaign in connection with the Church 's alleged refusal to donate money and valuables for the Famine crippled the reputation of church aid and made some priests unwilling to become entangled in relief work . |
| 15 | They searched each person , every vehicle and made ten arrests for possession of drugs . |
| 16 | Primary infringement means that someone has copied your work and made such copies public , or has authorised someone else to do this . |
| 17 | If he ran into Eleanor he planned to blame the general editor and make soothing noises . |
| 18 | Haas was a very great editor and made important restorations ; but you ca n't always go back to Bruckner 's first ideas — the first version of the Eighth Symphony , for example , where the first movement ends with a fortissimo coda . |
| 19 | Zelma , bless her , who has always regarded her son-in-law as a sort of concierge who somehow manages to throw up the odd masterpiece in between sitting at a desk , gazing uselessly out of the window and making endless messes in her kitchen with his coffee dregs and fag ash , had been popping into the study at fairly regular intervals , with unspecific enquiries . |
| 20 | A committee was appointed to consider the plans , to choose a site for the infirmary and to make other recommendations ; it included the Duke of Bedford , Mr. Osborn , Mr. Pym , Mr. Higgins of Turvey , Lord John Russell , Samuel Whitbread and Dr. Yeats — the latter a local physician . |
| 21 | He drew a stone axe from the belt at his waist and made tentative cuts around her neck . |
| 22 | Practice — In practice mode the opposition stays in its own half and makes feeble attempts at winning the ball — just like playing Birmingham City ! |
| 23 | I 'm not gon na go over t what my colleague has said but what I do wan na know is when are the Labour Party gon na get hold of some issue and make some sort of mileage out of it , because we 've got a number of sponsored MPs and we ca n't get 'em off the doorstep at election time , but when it comes about doing summat for us and consider the fact that it affects many many people and we talk about the links that the Labour Party and the trade union has , I think the Labour Party 's already severed 'em , as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 24 | But if you want to escape the British winter and make substantial savings you have to plan ahead . |
| 25 | Most of the dissenting ( Covenanting ) ministers took other jobs and waited in hope for the ruling to be reversed , at peace with their consciences by having adhered to their principles , but many felt it incumbent upon them to continue with their vocation , preaching the gospel and making true Presbyterianism available to the people . |
| 26 | Your publication has given some of the world 's best humorists and cartooonists their most memorable exposure and has inspired countless others to pick up the pen and make complete fools out of themselves . |
| 27 | ‘ Once she was a hit , we could have sat on the first contract and made more money from her . |
| 28 | It is now widely accepted that the Chairmanship of the Bar is virtually a full time job , and the profession has been fortunate indeed in the people who have been prepared to take on that responsibility and make that commitment . |
| 29 | Except in very small primary schools , head teachers , deputies and chairs of governors welcomed the increased management responsibility and made genuine efforts to manage resources more efficiently and effectively . |
| 30 | To type in text , watch wordwrap and make running corrections |