Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pron] makes [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The kind of smell which makes sick people worse must interfere with the vigour and vitality of those who are well , but at all events it is sufficient to show that sick persons are injured thereby ’ , per Stephen , J. in the Malton Manure case . |
| 2 | Indeed , as we shall see later , a rise in total output accompanied by a change in the distribution of income which makes some people better off and others worse off can not necessarily be interpreted as an improvement in the country 's living standards . |
| 3 | Perhaps Sawallisch should be persuaded to record the work now , though I very much doubt whether he would be able to recapture the real sense of occasion which makes this disc such a compelling experience . |
| 4 | Though he was an adequate mariner , he was by no means an expert fisherman , being the sort of man who makes more conversation than profit from his catches ; but after a trip across to Plymouth early in the new year , he returned looking exceedingly pleased with himself , dressed in finer clothes than were often seen on the Polruan side of the Fowey , and full of the news that he intended to commission John Knollys to build him a bark of a hundred tons . |
| 5 | By posing an enigma and deferring its solution , the hermeneutic code pulls off a sleight of hand which makes delayed information synonymous with truth . |
| 6 | This is not the kind of guy who makes polite conversation . |