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

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1 But there was no semblance of a fluke about the result — it was the fastest Gold Cup ever run — and as Norton 's Coin made the long walk past the stands to the winner 's enclosure he started to receive the reception he deserved .
2 A perspective of well working markets ( therefore the need for minimal government intervention ) and a balanced budget make the competing schools of thought more attractive to this group .
3 The bravery of men swimming ashore in these pioneer beach reconnaissances is beyond question , and knowing Norman Teacher as a friend , as well as being his CO , the Commander feels there is a strong probability that the young Lieutenant made the supreme sacrifice in swimming to his death rather than risking his capture , as others , too , may have done .
4 Increased working distance and greater depth of field make the new SZ series ideal for use with bonding or probing machines .
5 She was rehomed , but the story made the front page of the local Sunday paper .
6 In the early stages both Pat Eddery on Dancing Brave and Gary Moore on Bering held up their mounts towards the rear , but had improved to the middle of the pack as the field made the downhill run towards the straight .
7 But it is perhaps better not to try to make a bizarre idea for a murder the seed in your mind for a book , though when you have devised your plot you should of course make the actual circumstances of the murder as attention-grabbing as possible .
8 When occasionally they asked her what was the marketing strategy or the business plan and she said , openly , that there never had been one , her patent naturalness and honesty made the whole thing appear even more of a fairy story .
9 The evening was lovely , the air warm , transparent and luminous , and the lights of the complex made the white walls of the villas glow , set off against the tall graceful cypresses .
10 Does this conception make the mind-body problem easier for us ?
11 Labour made the National Health Service a major issue , and considerable media debate arose after a Labour party political broadcast on March 24 featuring the plight of a young girl needing specialist hospital treatment .
12 Her interesting talk and demonstration made the whole operation look so easy that members were inspired to go home and make their own .
13 In sport , on April 27th , Brian Clough showed his membership of the pantheon of verbal Rottweilers when his retirement as manager of Nottingham Forest football club made the front page of every British daily paper , including the Financial Times .
14 In many places the Left Book Club made the Labour Party look like a stagnant backwater , while demanding a less disciplined or full-time commitment than membership of the Communist Party .
15 But I was getting a trifle chilled — just a trifle , you know , and on this beautiful day — ’ he waved a gloved hand at the brilliant sky and the buildings , dazzling in a chiaroscuro of stone and snow , the snow making the grey stone look black , the stone making the snow blindingly pure .
16 If on the contrary , the mind thinks disturbing thoughts , like thinking of another man as having more riches or land , then feelings of envy , resentment and disappointment spread through the mind making the whole body cold and unhappy .
17 According to CA this can be done by bolting on its recompiled Unix-based relational database CA-DB on to the front of other databases , in effect making the non-relational database function as a RDMS without any rewriting taking place .
18 It was then that I resolved to enjoy the rest of the year , accept that I simply did not have the talent to make the professional grade , and find a job .
19 The bank with which the exporter makes the forward contract must itself hedge its position , otherwise it too will be exposed to currency risk .
20 Some thought it was an attempt to make the long hitters go for the green across the water so they made it twenty-five paces shorter .
21 " y own objection is different , and concerns the attempt to make the actual availability of such criteria a condition of meaningfulness of the idea of numerical identity .
22 A fall of snow makes the festive setting complete .
23 If you are looking for a pension or other financial advice we can similarly give you information and guidance to make the right decision .
24 We are nature 's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove sounder than the reflex .
25 The alternating transverse force makes the free electrons move sinusoidally , radiating photons in the forward direction .
26 They were strongly reprimanded by Woman 's Own whose editor made the strange assumption that large hips were synonymous with big feet , and she said the well corsetted woman has a good figure that will last her for life , and feet many times smaller than those of the uncontrolled .
27 Centenary-class car 641 was provided for a ride to the Tower , where the Princess made the famous ascent to the top , on the recommendation of her son The Duke of Gloucester .
28 The John Soames Museum made the unlikely complaint that it had found itself too busy as a consequence of the poster 's impact .
29 The sun made the mullioned glass of the manor house windows shimmer like pools of light .
30 The ubiquity and sensitivity of magnetic minerals , the speed and versatility of measuring equipment and the persistence of magnetic linkages between source and sediment make the emerging methodology ideally suited to both process- and reconstruction-oriented catchment studies and more especially to that integration of the two approaches so strongly advocated in recent time .
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