Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a school can tailor its in-house courses and make them relevant to the needs of the whole school staff , then the dynamics of that collective and shared experience may provide greater rewards . |
| 2 | This is the idea that crime and deviance have positive qualities and consequences that make them necessary for the healthy functioning of society . |
| 3 | Do n't write out cheques to your adviser — always make them payable to the company you 're investing in . |
| 4 | As far as the debtor 's obligations are concerned , he must retain possession of the goods and make them available for the creditor to collect , taking reasonable care of them in the meantime ( s72(4) ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I would envisage a process of discovery , so each party would list documents in their possession and make them available to the other parties . ’ |
| 6 | Lévi-Strauss accepted the traditional role of anthropology to ‘ explain' the differences of alien cultures in ways that make them recognisable as the same ‘ underneath ’ . |
| 7 | The announcement of the proposed merger ( unless shut-outs can be achieved — see para 8.2 below ) will bring both companies " into play " and make them vulnerable to a hostile bid . |
| 8 | The citation does however leave unexamined one further consideration ; that there might within the range of manufacturing and service industries be some which , for whatever reason , whether of the nature or of the size of the business , make them unsuited to the industrial co-operative form of organisation . |
| 9 | We make them aware of the pitfalls . |
| 10 | A different direction is taken by projects such as DASI ( Developing Anti-Sexist Initiatives ) where the aim is ‘ to give girls a positive self-image , and make them aware of the way society controls them rather than to direct them into ‘ male ’ areas of study or work' ( Whyld 1983 , p. 303 ) . |
| 11 | Their tiny eyes , rubbery sucking mouths and writhing bodies scarcely make them attractive from a human point of view . |
| 12 | Press it flat with the seam you have sewn down the back of the head of the puppet . |
| 13 | The couple turned up at Richmond station and a firemen cut them free with a hacksaw . |
| 14 | Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap . |
| 15 | And catch them alive in the burrows . |
| 16 | Educate them early of the benefits of being in a trade union . |
| 17 | The young Greindl 's few phrases as Daland show him devoid of the unsteadiness that would later mar his singing . |
| 18 | Firemen cut him free from the vehicle in a lay-by on the eastbound carriageway of the A45 at Risby , near Bury St Edmunds . |
| 19 | The thing is we did it right , we did it in the nappy , then we fucking put him spread-eagled on a bench and me mate ran off to get the shaving kit stuff and this fucking this people who 's erm , looking wom , girls in there and everything , real fucking pissed up |
| 20 | Take your graft — the short-handled spade with the curved blade — cut through the surface layer , whether grass or whatever , and remove it intact as a circle some 18 inches ( 45 centimetres ) in diameter . |
| 21 | It was left to Vineyard who put it wide of the post . |
| 22 | Help us to cleanse it and hold it safe from the Godless forces of Communism that surround it and threaten it from within . |
| 23 | I picture it safe in the hands |
| 24 | Southend 's attitude is you are there for their benefit ; Troyes make you welcome with a handshake greeting . |
| 25 | Dreaming , dreaming always , endlessly supposing some Act of God will lift you out , make you remarkable through no effort of your own . |
| 26 | To discourage petty claims , most insurers make you liable for the first £25 . |
| 27 | That things remain unconscious , not because you never knew about them , but because they 're never brought into the relevant connections with other things that make you conscious of the thing in the sense of seeing what 's in it for Mrs you know , reports . |
| 28 | They look me full in the face and say , ‘ It 's the voice I recognized , not you . ’ |
| 29 | The program enables you to make designs , print them out , or transfer them direct to the E6000 console . |
| 30 | It took him 14 more laps before he could squeeze alongside Brundle , and run him wheel-to-wheel through the same right-left-right triple turn . |