Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second-hand pipe organs are sometimes worth considering when they are fine instruments and when the total cost of their purchase , removal and rebuilding in a place suitable for them makes economic sense . |
| 2 | From these women 's descriptions of their days , it is clear that rarely , if ever , is it possible for them to make this distinction either . |
| 3 | Perhaps the brothers had waited in vain for me to make some retraction . |
| 4 | According to his account to the House of Commons , Baldwin replied : ‘ Sir , that is most grievous news , and it is impossible for me to make any comment on it today . ’ |
| 5 | His restlessness permeated the entire house , and she felt guilty , certain that her presence was tying him to Gullholm , that if it were n't for her he would go home , or visit one or other of his sisters or his mother , all of whom made regular telephone calls . |
| 6 | He dodged between the startled shoppers , none of whom made any attempt to stop him . |
| 7 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 8 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 9 | Everything and something and nothing are all logically interlinked and none of them makes clear sense without the others . |
| 10 | None of them fit together , none of them makes any sense . |
| 11 | However , neither of them makes any reference to her husband , or to the dynamics of her marriage relationship in these comments , though Norma Larkin makes some ( implicit ) observations about marriage in general . |
| 12 | They lived the lives of the folk among whom they worked ; and this may have helped many of them to make real contact with their parishioners . |
| 13 | Three wells were drilled in the area in the 1980's — all of which made small gas discoveries — although two are excluded from this award . |
| 14 | By 1907 , the CUB , acting on a plan initiated by W. H. Beveridge , was busy opening exchanges in every London borough , each of which made special provision for women and juveniles , and provided vocational guidance for school-leavers through working in co-operation with the ASEA and the Education Department of the LCC . |
| 15 | Moreover , since postnominal position is not a device for marking emphasis as such , a mere desire for emphasis does not of itself make postnominal position possible . |
| 16 | His description of how he watched helplessly as one of the deadly missiles thundered towards him makes chilling reading . |
| 17 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 18 | None of it made any sense . |
| 19 | None of it made any sense ! |
| 20 | But none of it made any difference . |
| 21 | It 's easy to be deceived into thinking none of it makes any sense but it does make sense : a strange , twisted , whimsical , surreal kind of sense . |
| 22 | Is this flying in the face of what makes good cinema ? ’ |
| 23 | When we consider the dominance of collectivism as an explanation of what makes Japanese experience unique , we do need to emphasize that this is not simply a characteristic of Western or American writing , but many Japanese social scientists have echoed this explanation in their attempts to identify the sources of consensus in Japanese society . |
| 24 | We were so confident of each other 's love that should one of us make that final , selfish decision the other would feel his friend 's sense of loss even more keenly than his own . |
| 25 | I would have sworn there had n't been time for you to make any kind of progress since last night . |
| 26 | It may be difficult for you to make instantaneous response to what is said . |
| 27 | Robin McEwen was also behind my making some money on the horses . |
| 28 | Claudia pleaded with him to make some defence . |
| 29 | A second visionary experience was required to create the world of the archetypal stage , the skene , and with it make true drama possible . |
| 30 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |