Example sentences of "[noun sg] to make a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helpless in her pinioned position , she opened her mouth to make a cutting retort and met Roman 's questing finger , slowly outlining her mouth , feathering indescribable sensations over the surface of her skin , then sliding between her lips and parting them with such lazy insistence that a shiver of reaction made her tremble all over . |
| 2 | His own practice , as recorded in one of a series of articles which appeared in the Manchester Guardian in October and November 1930 * by one of the pupils who attended the evening classes he held there once a week between 1925 and 1927 , was from a drawing to make a careful sketch in various hades of one colour , obtaining in this way the construction of the picture and the suggestion for various tonal values . |
| 3 | It 's use your equation to make a little table . |
| 4 | Yet I do n't doubt the wisdom of the climber who , faced with a dodgy bollard at the end of a great day out , is happy to sacrifice an axe to make a sure abseil . |
| 5 | Moreover , the head claimed that he had been able to use the appraisal to make a strong case against a proposed reduction of 7.4 staff , in line with cutbacks planned by the LEA due to falling rolls and reductions in spending . |
| 6 | They can use snow to make a big ball or snowman . |
| 7 | In the absence of this information , it is sound practice to make a secondary arrangement of key words ; they can not be left as they are above , for they make sense only as their interrelation is explicitly shown . |
| 8 | These may be small operations with one or two senior public relations executives with a shared secretary , with sufficient turnover to make a good living . |
| 9 | If they are as divorced from experience as they seem , the only explanations for their regular occurrence in a variety of people must be either , following Jung , that these are archetypal dreams with some allegorical significance , or that they represent an attempt to make sense out of experiences really occurring during dreaming sleep — an attempt to make a coherent story out of some pattern of the highly active discharges from the hindbrain which are a feature of REM sleep . |
| 10 | Another said : ‘ Here is the year 's most significant attempt to make a low energy consumption/low emissions car that is practical , good looking and feasible . ’ |
| 11 | The omission of the verb gives an immediacy which would be missing from a construction such as It is a virgin scene ( where the present tense is a direct attempt to make a coding time and content time the same ) . |
| 12 | On the economic front , the near-heroic attempt to make a centralised economy work has produced , with Bonn 's support , a real success story . |
| 13 | I must say that the way the discussion has gone this morning , is n I would say , slightly disappointing because there is some attempt to make a positive contribution , but at the moment it 's not necessarily pointing us quite in the direction which we would hope to go . |
| 14 | So too an attempt to make a direct gift , which fails because the proper method of transfer is not employed , will not take effect as a trust . |
| 15 | But Conran had decided not to soft-pedal in the US and had made up his mind to make a big splash immediately , which required large investments which it took years to recoup . |
| 16 | There were no bandages large enough in the wheelbarrow to make a cold compress , so I poured water on my sock where it touched the inflammation , but the water filled my boot and left the sock barely damp . |
| 17 | The intention to make a graphic verisimilitude of appearance has no virtue in itself , nor does it seem to me to be the most important reason for spending long hours working directly from the subject . |
| 18 | What was needed was that intention to make a legal act should be expressed ; this then had to be taken to be charged on the heir as trustee , since in that way the principle of benefit could be satisfied . |
| 19 | They stressed their intention to make a joint application for EC membership , while membership of NATO and the WEU were longer-term goals . |
| 20 | In my first year in a London art school my two major preoccupations were whether you really could see William Turner 's late canvases as a precursor to French Impressionism , and how the hell I could afford to clothe myself in the right gear to make a stunning impact on my new friends at the Gateways . |
| 21 | Thus , if the lake monster surfaced , the animal could be quickly offered as a sacrifice , allowing the boat to make a quick return to shore . |
| 22 | Legend has it that the once-rounded peaks had their tops lopped off by a supernatural force to make a flat-topped bed and table for St Columba when he visited the island in AD585 . |
| 23 | Mix the chopped parsley , garlic , olive oil , chopped anchovy fillets and vinegar to make a little vinaigrette sauce . |
| 24 | So the capacity to make a thorough survey of the subject is inhibited by one of its most important characteristics . |
| 25 | On the subsequent hearing the judge found that T. 's capacity to make a rational decision about her treatment was unimpaired , and that , despite the influence of her mother , the refusal of a transfusion was voluntary . |
| 26 | It has the capacity to make a major contribution to the stimulation of scientific achievement for the good of wealth creation in this country . |
| 27 | I therefore answer my first question in the affirmative and I do find as a result that Miss T. had the capacity to make a valid refusal of blood on that Sunday afternoon and evening . |
| 28 | ( b ) the offeror is also responsible for making the announcement if a requirement to make a mandatory offer is triggered ; |
| 29 | Bishop 's Castle Railway , deviations and additional works , plans and sections ( all minor deviations of the eastern part of the original main line proposal with an additional junction spur at Lydham Heath to make a double junction there to allow direct running between Craven Arms and Bishop 's Castle . |
| 30 | to provide opportunities for members not attracted to committee work to make a useful contribution . |