Example sentences of "a [noun] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 2 | With monetary policy , for example , the money supply may not decrease immediately following a decision to make open market sales of public sector debt to the non-bank sector . |
| 3 | In the fourth condition they were asked to judge whether a sentence made any sense . |
| 4 | He 's got a nerve to make such comments , Lucy told herself crossly . |
| 5 | ‘ A marsh makes strange noises sometimes . |
| 6 | Indeed , it was not until 1956 that a Brazilian made any impact when Nano da Silva Ramos finished 5th in his Gordini in the Monaco Grand Prix . |
| 7 | Again , equally importantly , the provisions , if complied with , are designed to make it very much more difficult for a defendant to make unfounded allegations that he has been ‘ verballed ’ which appear credible . |
| 8 | The hotel has many planned activities to amuse its guests and also has a minibus making frequent trips to Funchal and back . |
| 9 | A CALL has been made for town hall officers to solve a dispute with National Car Parks in a bid to make full use of Darlington 's parking spaces . |
| 10 | SCOTTISH champion Emma Donaldson , who rose to her highest world ranking of 39 last week , has now set her sights on the Far East in a bid to make further progress , writes Elspeth Burnside . |
| 11 | Professional and amateur artists have all agreed to lend a hand in a bid to make this year 's festival the seventh one of the best yet . |
| 12 | Well yeah , er if I 'm training you , so prepared it , but , what am I , what have I , what I have to do as a trainer make sure saying ? |
| 13 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 14 | therefore involve teaching a child to make phonemic contrasts which are not normally associated with phonological development ( Ingram 1976 ) . |
| 15 | And then , as a man , he had needed a fellow-conspirator to make those consolations real , to confirm him in the righteousness of his seclusion from the world . |
| 16 | One solution that can be used in such an emergency is a home made internal filter which can be made in any size for next to no outlay . |
| 17 | Although if some sort of republic was to survive such a tactic made theoretical sense , its practicability was seriously undermined by the nature of the CEDA 's ideology and wealthy support . |
| 18 | Hall seems to endorse a proposal made some years ago by that , on the basis of this simple genetic control , ‘ Torsion , and with it the class Gastropoda , arose through a single gene mutation . ’ |
| 19 | THE EUROPEAN Community could spend up to $12 million dollars a year on the environment , if a proposal made this week by the Commission is approved by a council of ministers . |
| 20 | Ukraine put forward a proposal making all members of the CIS successors to the former Soviet Union and dividing its property abroad between them , in proportion to their original contribution . |
| 21 | In these years of prolonged crisis , the structure of industrial relations was crystallized around separate unions in each enterprise , the partial incorporation of age related wage profiles and a determination to make public sector workers an exception to the constitutional provision for collective bargaining rights . |
| 22 | They 've launched a campaign to make young people and their parents more aware of the dangers of drugs like ecstasy . |
| 23 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 24 | A TEACHER made legal history yesterday by becoming the first person to win damages for so-called yuppie flu . |
| 25 | ‘ A trusted cashier committing embezzlement , a minister who evades payment of his taxes , a teacher making sexual advances towards minors and a civil servant who accepts bribes have a fear of detection which is more closely linked with the dread of public scandal and subsequent social ruin than with apprehensions of legal punishment . ’ |
| 26 | This may be seen as a move to make international law into proper law , or at least international law with one of its essential purposes , the control of force , and , of course , there have long been laws to restrict the type and degree of force used even in legitimate war , and some restrictions on the very legality of wars , for instance when they are in contravention of treaties . |
| 27 | Second , a failure to make reasonable accommodation might be an act of discrimination , as might be a refusal to employ disabled applicants because the employer would have to accommodate their disabilities . |
| 28 | A failure to make reasonable accommodation would be subject to the defence of ‘ undue hardship ’ . |
| 29 | When Liverpool City Council abolished the title of lord mayor in 1983 there was a ‘ public outcry ’ ( The Times 18.5.83 ) , thus demonstrating once again a point made 100 years earlier in 1888 : ‘ that a sentimental grievance is by no means the least difficult to overcome ’ when considering changes in local government ( quoted in Hampton 1966:463 ) . |
| 30 | Whilst it may be desirable , for the reasons discussed above , for a business to make detailed provision in its contracts for contingencies which may arise , it will generally be impossible to negotiate separate contracts for each transaction . |