Example sentences of "be [verb] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Search 's Thunderbirds character toothbrushes are designed to make toothbrushing time fun . |
| 2 | Staff from the unit are expected to make frequent visits to Shetland and will liaise with officials in Whitehall and in Brussels . |
| 3 | We are expected to make seasonal adjustments to change our clothes , make-up and even our bodies in accordance with fashion . |
| 4 | Talks are continuing with British Telecommunications Plc , Mercury Communications Ltd , Sprint International Inc and Australia 's Overseas Telecommunications Corp , all of which are expected to make formal bids for the contract . |
| 5 | Next year Minnie I will be forty and hardly able to believe it but I am resolved to make great changes with the help of a hard winter 's work . |
| 6 | In this chapter we shall be dealing with files that have been designed to make direct record retrieval as easy and rapid as possible . |
| 7 | Allowing a realistic amount of time is crucial if we are serious about asking people who are disabled to make informed decisions and choices . |
| 8 | This is so because , if courts are empowered to make authoritative determinations of the fact that a rule has been broken , these can not avoid being taken as authoritative determinations of what the rules are . |
| 9 | I did n't get anywhere very fast , but when you are confident and you know the market is there it is inevitable , because of the heavy initial investment , that you 're going to make substantial losses in the early years . |
| 10 | as we 're going to make other changes anyway so |
| 11 | It had , at first , seemed totally unlikely that this bunch of ugly Northern oiks would ever make it in America , but they 're starting to make perfect sense . |
| 12 | They will be talking as they eat and it 's distracting and embarrassing to have to juggle something fussy and awkward while you 're trying to make new friends and business contacts . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're trying to make excessive profit . ’ |
| 14 | We are equipped to make mental calculations of risk and odds , within the range of improbabilities that would be useful in human life . |
| 15 | He 's already been told to make other arrangements — and that 's a shame . |
| 16 | In much the same way implicit or explicit models for describing the evolution of stream channels or drainage basins commonly are used to make simplifying assumptions that eliminate considerations of time , history and sometimes even progressive change . ’ |
| 17 | These instruments are used to make straight cuts across the embryo in order to subdivide it into particular regions or fragments . |
| 18 | Because of time lags in the production process , the cost of replacing inventories may well have risen by the time that the raw materials are used to make finished goods and then sold . |
| 19 | That raises the alarming prospect that red mercury may actually be a codename for real substances that are needed to make nuclear bombs . |
| 20 | Particular skills and attitudes are needed to make voluntary agreements workable and fair . |
| 21 | Various glasses have been used to make artificial sand . |
| 22 | PSA Projects have transferred copies of RBGE plans on microfiche to Estates , and the new microfilm equipment installed in the Library has been used to make hard copy when required . |
| 23 | If suitably processed in Iraq , that material could have been used to make nuclear warheads . |
| 24 | In support of this view , a number of studies have indicated that language-impaired children make significant improvements if the adults around them are induced to make systematic changes in certain aspects of their language ( Howlin 1984 ; McLean and Snyder 1978 ) . |
| 25 | Schools which observe a principle of ‘ open house ’ are better able to achieve this , because they encourage parents and local residents to make visits during school hours , and have been shown to make notable improvements in the quality of the education which they provide simply by working with parents on a basis of equality . |
| 26 | I am going to make moral judgments . |
| 27 | So you have to insulate the , the administrators from direct control of the people if you , if the administrators are going to make good decisions . |
| 28 | If it is allowed , both parties are invited to make written submissions and to attend a hearing before a full tribunal of three members . |
| 29 | In implementing today 's online catalogues , librarians are having to make complex decisions about catalogue user behaviour and needs . |
| 30 | A number of rare animals in the wild are joining waiting lists for zoo cages , and like hospital administrators , zoo directors are having to make tough decisions about who gets the places . |