Example sentences of "[pers pn] makes the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He makes the reasonable point that the upholders of traditional positions might achieve a new plausibility if they could be seen actually arguing for them , rather than merely asserting them . |
| 2 | Rearing and plunging through bravura passagework and revelling in every opportunity for the richest variety of voicing and texture , he makes the many years since the work 's first performance roll away . |
| 3 | It is a pity that Michael Coe 's essay on Maya hieroglyphs is not illustrated , but he makes the interesting point that vessels appear to be labelled much as they were in the classical world of the Mediterranean . |
| 4 | ‘ The court sees no ground for saying that , for present purposes , it makes the slightest difference whether under the old law the offence would have been false pretences or larceny by a trick . |
| 5 | The contrast may therefore serve to illustrate one major merit of Brooks 's criticism and of the New Criticism in general : their use of ideas such as irony may seem exaggerated and confusing , but it makes the important point that the meaning of poetry , though possibly analyzable , can not be expressed properly in the form of a conventional prosaic statement . |
| 6 | I shall not read it out , because there is not time , but it makes the very point that , purely and simply for medium-term policies and commercial reasons , we shall sterilise billions of tonnes of coal . |