Example sentences of "[that] [pron] make [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Remember , though , that everyone makes more mistakes in copying than in original writing , so you may end up with more errors in the rewritten piece than in the original .
2 ‘ His solution that we make individual donations to the aid agencies is extraordinary . ’
3 Only that we would want all students to experience these things to the fullest , so that they all have varied and rich experiences in all these spheres , and that we make special efforts to provide the time and space for the students to explore and develop their abilities and inclinations to learn and develop personal qualities without being directed .
4 ‘ We always boasted that we made 29 films with one script — now we have made 30 , ’ laughs Peter , 78 .
5 In the course of doing so money will have to be spent on cleaning up the Six ( and , no doubt , eventually , the Soviet Union , too ) to ensure that they make respectable cohabitants of the new Europe which various leaders from Gorbachev to Delors to François Mitterrand have envisaged .
6 Modern breeds of these homing pigeons return so reliably and are so tame and amenable that they make excellent subjects with which to investigate the homing ability .
7 So although the two models are observationally equivalent they are different in that they make different predictions about what would happen if the economic environment changed .
8 And so great was the love of the people for Elvis that they made many laws .
9 I am absolutely confident that Dr. Church and his partners are not unique and that many other doctors are in the same position , in the sense that they made financial investments during 1989-91 and the payments that they received from the fund were limited by the operation of the list size criterion .
10 Taking into account the fact that they made fewer comments about individual types of credit than men , women 's comments were more likely to be that they did not know how a type of credit worked than men 's ; and less likely to say that it was easy to understand and use .
11 The creation of the autonomous region had been opposed by the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNFL ) , the largest of the separatist guerrilla organizations , on the grounds that it made insufficient concessions to Moslem autonomy and failed to meet the terms of the 1976 Tripoli Accord [ see p. 28440 ] .
12 From my discussions with British Rail , I know that it made specific proposals for the diversion of at least four of the crossings and that the Ramblers Association objected to them all .
13 It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals .
14 That argument has to rest on the principle that it makes other owners of Utterly Dependables feel better if everyone has one !
15 He argued that education for understanding can only be regarded as successful to the extent that it makes behavioural outcomes unpredictable .
16 A particular advantage of the telephone interview method is that it makes less demands on the time of managers than conventional ‘ face-to-face ’ interviews .
17 Although I have fundamental disagreements with the Minister on many issues , I acknowledge that he made many concessions to the logical arguments of hon. Members from the three Opposition parties involved .
18 Of course it 's possible that he made other calls not in the line of business . ’
19 I am satisfied that the deceased encouraged the plaintiff in the belief that all the property he possessed at the date of his death would pass to her , and I do not consider that the fact that he made certain gifts during his lifetime , and indicated a wish to make others , including the gift of a legacy to the plaintiff 's son is inconsistent with such a belief .
20 It is , however , certain that Molla Fenari was in Karaman at a date much later than Bayezid I 's reign , as will be shown ; and as there is no evidence to suggest a journey before 800/1397 or to support the possibility that he made two journeys to Karaman , it seems justifiable to treat the Taskopruzade story with some caution .
21 He said : ‘ He has fudged and shaded , and tried to get away from the fact that he made specific statements and those statements were wrong .
22 He was well aware that he made young men look badly dressed and ill-mannered .
23 The barons complained that Henry III had arbitrarily re-afforested woods and lands which had been put out of the forest by the perambulations of 1225 ; that he claimed the wardship of heirs to assarts made within the forest , to the detriment of the overlords in whose lands such assarts had been made ; and that he made frequent grants of the right of free warren in disafforested areas , thereby restricting the free rights of hunting which ought to have been enjoyed by landowners in such districts .
24 ‘ If we find that it is true that he made these deals he could lose his permit , ’ he said .
25 But to be fair to Green it was from his burning wish for people to admire the scenery , not from a desire to spoil it , that he made these suggestions , which certainly are not so far fetched in the 20th century as they must have been then .
26 He only knew that the speech had told and that he raised applause , and that he made some jokes which aroused laughter .
27 His chart of appearances shows that he made full appearances for two seasons after joining us and only a broken collar-bone prevented him from making an even more impressive contribution towards our promotion to Division One in 1969–70 .
28 Does the Secretary of State recall a speech that he made several months ago in which he encouraged the business community to take on racketeers ?
29 An example of this is the way that he makes big things seem really unimportant , and trivialities seem very important .
30 After Mrs Bedworth received a £700 phone bill , she had an electronic bar put on her phone so that anyone making outgoing calls had to dial a code .
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