Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have always been interested in woodwork but do n't have the artistic skills or patience to make fine furniture , ’ he said . |
| 2 | In the late forties and the early fifties , every new member of the Wine and Food Society received , together with a copy of the current number of the Society 's quarterly magazine and a membership card , a pamphlet entitled Pottery , or Home Made Potted Foods , Meat and Fish Pastes , Savoury Butters and Others . |
| 3 | Timothy Gedge was as ordinary as anyone else , but the ill fortune of circumstances or nature made ordinary people eccentric and lent them colour in the greyness . |
| 4 | In 1821 Neill MacEachern & Co. made 6798 gallons of 70 proof at Daill . |
| 5 | In order to appreciate the factors which motivate a writer or speaker to make this kind of selection , one needs to think of the clause as a message rather than as a string of grammatical and lexical elements . |
| 6 | SHe appreciated Dr Parmedes ' art : it would have been easy to fix the physical changes , but he had possessed the patience and expertise to make those organs as responsive to stimulation as any natural ones . |
| 7 | Are information and decision making separate activities or are they part of a continuum and , therefore , inter-related ? |
| 8 | Make sure the removal van is large enough to take all your possessions — otherwise you will waste time and money making repeated journeys . |
| 9 | Both sides were now preparing for war , but Norfolk and Rent made another attempt at mediation in mid-December when they wrote to all the prelates asking them to attend an assembly in London to discuss the king 's failure to abide by his coronation oath and Magna Carta . |
| 10 | There is nothing like the sight of death and blood to make old Shallot want a cup of sack or a goblet of wine ! |
| 11 | It calls on the government to : ( i ) provide financial incentives ( such as exemption from value-added tax for energy-saving equipment ) ; ( ii ) intervene to stabilize energy prices ( so as to encourage business and industry to make long-term investments in energy conservation ) ; and ( iii ) introduce specific energy-saving measures ( such as creating a large differential between the prices of diesel and petrol ) . |
| 12 | Gold and silver make good friends in bad times |
| 13 | He denies conspiracy to use telecommunications dishonestly , conspiracy to gain unauthorised access to computers and conspiracy to make unauthorised modification to information held on computer . |
| 14 | Bedworth denies conspiracy to use telecommunications dishonestly , conspiracy to gain unauthorised access to computers and conspiracy to make unauthorised modifications to information held on computers between June 1989 and June 1991 . |
| 15 | Radio and telly make great efforts — at least sometimes . |
| 16 | Especially for a soul like his , that loved the melting season , when the rise of sap and sun made all things seem possible . |
| 17 | Around Tregarron the climate and terrain make extra work . |
| 18 | It is vital to the understanding of company needs that those engineers responsible for design , development and manufacture make direct contact with the world of the user and the competitor in sufficient depth to have valid views on the market as it affects their tasks . |
| 19 | The past year has been , in the words of the Director 's Annual Report , ‘ twelve months of some anxiety and upheaval ’ during which both Council and staffhave made determined efforts to ‘ confront the problems calmly and constructively , and to find solutions that will secure the future of the Settlement ’ . |
| 20 | If BL , with its strong union presence , is prepared to negotiate changes in the work organisation of maintenance when microelectronics-controlled machinery is first installed , and management makes some headway in breaking down the traditional craft structure , then presumably substantial changes are on their way in other companies . |
| 21 | I did not discard everything , for Vitamin A , B , C and little tablets of zinc and selenium made scientific sense , but poor , old Dr. Bach really did seem nonsense . |
| 22 | Visitors to Cleveland 's Thorpe Wood learned about the art of charcoal production , bodging and basket making this weekend . |
| 23 | Shape and profile make good towers , and it is these qualities which most of the entrants exploited . |
| 24 | Russian and German make similar gender distinctions in the third-person singular pronouns and , like English , do not apply these distinctions to the third-person plural . |
| 25 | It 's one I first came across in one of the handy little circular walk leaflets published by the National Parks and , though I generally like to devise my own routes , it 's a cracking walk and at ten miles of easy walking a good stroll for hot high summer day or days when low cloud and drizzle make high fell-walking a grey punishment . |
| 26 | Lothian was described in the report as being the right scale : its small size , population density and well developed roads and transport make all parts accessible , even compared to many existing district council areas in Scotland . |
| 27 | Lothian was described in the report as being the right scale : its small size , population density and well developed roads and transport make all parts accessible , even compared to many existing district council areas in Scotland . |
| 28 | The 1940s and war made seditious literature a vital concern ; the 1950s and anti-communism made left-wing literature seem so threatening ; the 1960s and permissiveness eventually caused us to think we could go too far with ‘ indecent ’ and ‘ obscene ’ books ; and the 1970s and 1980s and the move towards a more multicultural society and the assertiveness of nationality made us conscious of the damage of racist and religiously intolerant literature . |
| 29 | The sort of protection currently offered covers damages for conflict of interest , negligent misstatements , acting beyond the scope of authority and authorising excessive borrowing , failure to supervise others to whom responsibility has been delegated , unauthorised payments and failure to make statutory payments , and errors of judgment not only of negligence . |
| 30 | Although the IFL 's extremism , lack of resources , and failure to make any impact made it of marginal political significance , the Jewish community were worried about its potential . |