Example sentences of "[prep] make a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My interests , after making a lifelong detour through the natural sciences , medicine and psychotherapy , returned to the cultural problems which had fascinated me long before , when I was a youth scarcely old enough for thinking . |
| 2 | Williamson 's advice to the organizational designer is to operate in a discriminating way , that is only after making a comparative assessment of the costs of using one organizational form rather than another . |
| 3 | The length of the adjusted pack was enough to cater for my unusually long back and after making a small adjustment to the shoulder strap attachment plates which can be swivelled to close or widen the gap between them at the neck , I had a very good fit . |
| 4 | After making a good meal I asked how much I owed . |
| 5 | After making a political volte-face he went on , without even a glimmer of embarrassment , to be responsible for bringing in the council tax . |
| 6 | After making a general attribution based on design , you should next take into account the colour scheme and tonal qualities of the rug . |
| 7 | Dowie was delighted at his goal , and it was no more than Northern Ireland deserved after making a positive start in atrocious conditions . |
| 8 | On the same course last week , Wonder Man lost his unbeaten chasing record after making a bad blunder at the penultimate fence . |
| 9 | After lunch , Reeve removed Cairns with his eighth ball in Test cricket after making a belated entry into the attack in the 108th over , but only after Nottinghamshire 's new signing had made an increasingly fluent 61 . |
| 10 | It was soon over , the patient was shown out after making a further appointment , and they were admitted . |
| 11 | Rugby League ref turned raconteur Billy Thompson was again the speaker , booked after making a big hit at Darlington Cricket Club 's do . |
| 12 | I think I left the Bench at least with an impression that they had someone very special to deal with , I was , of course , all the time praying that no one for the police would ask for his Conduct Sheet , which they overlooked after making a dutiful response to the Bench , and I hurried away to be met outside the Court by Stewart , who at once asked me to lend him a pound . |
| 13 | Melrose played six tests up to 1979 after making a magnificent debut when the 1978 Wallabies trounced the All Blacks by a record 30–16 margin in the Third Test at Auckland 's Eden Park . |
| 14 | THE Princess of Wales charmed her Korean hosts yesterday after making an extraordinary pact with Prince Charles . |
| 15 | But Christopher was playing happily in hospital last night after making an astounding recovery . |
| 16 | 1.62 As we have seen , when the defendant pays into court after making an interim payment , he must ensure that this notice of payment in states that the interim payment has been taken into account ( Ord 29 , r15 ) if he wants to put the plaintiff on risk for the aggregate of the two payments . |
| 17 | Police are particularly anxious to hear from a man who suddenly hung up after making an anonymous call to the incident room in January . |
| 18 | That would of made a good conversation , why did you give Michelle the glass ? |
| 19 | Erm he would of made a good singer , yes . |
| 20 | BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place . |
| 21 | Bully Boy , who had been backed from 20-1 down to 9-1 , was a fence clear by the time the third obstacle was jumped and , despite making a terrible blunder at the fifth , he never looked likely to be challenged . |
| 22 | In a separate development , British Aerospace and Thomson CSF of France confirmed they were considering making a joint offer for Ferranti . |
| 23 | THERE was speculation yesterday that the Lloyd 's of London insurance market is considering making a jumbo £1 billion bond issue to plug a yawning gap in its finances after recent huge losses . |
| 24 | The government had stated that it was considering making a formal application for membership , as Sweden had done in July . |
| 25 | Remember the sensational flurry a couple of years back when we picked up word that IBM Corp was considering making an agreed offer for Apple Computer Inc ? |
| 26 | The problem of making a lasting peace had been postponed . |
| 27 | As the war in Europe reached its last stages , the task of making a lasting peace seemed certain to be complicated by the differences of policy , already apparent , between the Western Allies and the USSR . |
| 28 | Like the writings of Johnson and Coleridge it raises the possibility that criticism can be serious , in the sense of making a lasting difference to conviction . |
| 29 | This time the UN deserves someone of consequence — who might think of making a successful businessman his deputy in order to tackle the UN 's nightmarish bureaucracy . |
| 30 | The process of making a firm decision . |