Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marr technique of painting is to go and visit the subject , where she makes copious notes on eye colour and other little idiosyncrasies that will help catch the soul of the dog . |
| 2 | One is the ‘ clean sheet approach ’ , where you make copious notes on everything to do with a person 's behaviour . |
| 3 | Yvonete , who works in the nearby cigarette factory , takes us to her husband 's workshop , where he makes wooden effigies of the Christ of Rio for sale to tourists . |
| 4 | The natural habitat is the coastal waters of West Africa between the Rivers Senegal and Congo , where it makes occasional excursions into freshwater . |
| 5 | Streets or parks are too theatrical for me to be at ease , so I make bad moves , exaggerate or , more often , under-bid . |
| 6 | I had a friend who suffered from twisted testicles so I made sure part of my sponsorship arrangement is that I 'm provided with decent shorts with inner briefs that give me support . |
| 7 | name ; is a very respectable cook , so we make occasional trips to the supermarket and to the open market , and then eat at home in the evening , although we can also go out to a restaurant for a meal if we want , as someone has now kindly lent us a car . |
| 8 | Middlesbrough Bears 50 Long Eaton Invaders 39 BORO 'S unpredictable Bears grabbed their first league win of the season last night although they made hard work of it at a bitterly cold Cleveland Park . |
| 9 | Naturally , even if you made sufficient headway with your phrase book to ask , they 'd never dream of telling you where they got it . |
| 10 | If you make extra contributions , you can use them to retire whenever you like between 50 and 75 . |
| 11 | If you make complex constructions , make sure they are stable enough not to tumble , possibly injuring your fish , or breaking the tank glass . |
| 12 | ‘ You certainly seem to be doing well — even if you make foul smells in the process . ’ |
| 13 | Blenders are very useful , particularly if you make nourishing soups in your slo-cooker and you occasionally want to puree them . |
| 14 | If you make good use of the contacts it forces you to make in Ardmore , Wellington or Christchurch , you can get a very useful insight into the local scene that helps prepare you for the fascinating flying that lies ahead . |
| 15 | And , do n't forget that if you make substantial improvements to your home , it may increase its value . |
| 16 | To get the very best results you will need to observe closely , compare , make notes , and use your judgement while bearing in mind that if you make heavy demands you will have to feed well . |
| 17 | ‘ In many ways it would be playing into the hands of the terrorists if you make daily life unbearable in the capital . ’ |
| 18 | Of course , if we make factual claims in support of an ethical statement , then these can be evaluated rationally , by way of induction and abduction . |
| 19 | If we make sufficient profit , we might also become subject to VAT . |
| 20 | Moreover , if we make indiscriminate use of drafting , if it is invariably or artificially imposed , it may well lead to a child 's interest in writing declining . |
| 21 | Of all possible speculations about the origin of life , most run foul of the laws of chemistry and can be ruled out , even if we make full use of our statistical fall-back argument about numbers of planets . |
| 22 | Some of these challenges are entirely technical but others are conceptual , stemming from the fact that most methods only make sense if one makes certain assumptions about the brain which may , or may not , be valid . |
| 23 | If they make stable contacts they pull the sheet to the site of contact , but others merely lose contact and are withdrawn . |
| 24 | Local large employers could also be encouraged to establish departments providing work experience for people with long-term disabilities , provided they received financial incentives in the form of capital grants and revenue support : employers should not be expected to provide charitable funds or investment , although they can provide an atmosphere of tolerance , access for sheltered workers to the benefits which other employees enjoy ( such as sports and canteen facilities ) , and a willingness to consider these supported workers for more general employment if they make good progress . |
| 25 | Though they are what is commonly called our enemies , yet , if they make proper use of what I have laboured for , let them enjoy it with the blessing of God . |
| 26 | But Luke only nodded , as if it made perfect sense . |
| 27 | But if it makes easy sense when we learn that after the ground clearing achieved in the early publications Joyce sets to work on an enormous new fictional venture , guesses about new preoccupations and the leaving behind of old collapse in face of the reality of Ulysses , for in it we read , among a thousand turnings and an wanderings , of a single day , the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and four , in Dublin , and how two characters , separately and together , live out that day among the welter of their acquaintance , their needs and deeds and thoughts , their places of refuge and of risk , and if one of these two , Leopold Bloom , is new , the other is Stephen Daedalus , and Dublin is everywhere in the novel , almost to the point where everywhere is Dublin . |
| 28 | As a final point about the root definition , it is sometimes useful to express it as a statement to see if it makes reasonable sense , and to double-check that all the CATWOE factors have been considered . |
| 29 | At Duns Sheriff Court , Sheriff James Paterson warned 34-year-old Mary Warnock , of Stobswood , Duns , that unless she made substantial inroads to the total within 12 months , she would face a prison sentence . |
| 30 | The breakthrough was inspired by belated realisation on the part of Pretoria and the ANC that unless they made rapid progress what is left of the South African economy would be wrecked . |