Example sentences of "be [adj] make some [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 president Kennedy , interviewed by Jean Daniel of L'Exprès , hinted that the United States might be willing to make some concessions .
2 So if you have young children you might be able to make some garments and take them to the Play Group — if the leader will let you !
3 Possibly the shock of feeling hard spikes in what appeared to be a soft , yielding morsel of food would be enough to make some predators think twice , but this is not particularly convincing .
4 In contrast , the government 's two senior legal advisers and the senior partner of a leading firm of society lawyers were so ignorant of this fact that it did not even enter their heads that it would be wise to make some enquiries before launching their client into a statement that could be , and indeed was , ruinous .
5 Marie Claire had some novels about English girls lost in the desert at the mercy of proud sheikhs , but those girls were as proud as the sheikhs themselves and defiant too — at least until near the end of the story — and the sheikhs were prepared to make some concessions themselves by that time .
6 It is possible to make some observations of the law relating to obscenity and indecency which indicate that , while accepting that one ought to be guided by the rule of law in censorship matters , one would be better advised to come to decisions without reference to this or that piece of obscenity or indecency legislation .
7 Nonetheless it is possible to make some observations concerning the relative dissociation rates from some of the sites .
8 Although it is possible to make some generalizations about the likely sequence of development of an intercontinental collision orogen , the pre-collision history of the active margin of the overriding plate and its subduction zone has an important influence on the subsequent evolution of an orogenic belt .
9 From this , it is possible to make some statements about the take-up of the project at grass-roots level .
10 So it is important to make some preparations in advance and accept that having fun can involve hard work .
11 To apply the framework of attention focusing to the data from these studies it is necessary to make some assumptions about the information that is central and peripheral in the stimuli .
12 However , the differences are sufficient to make some lecturers feel that the linking of art and design is a marriage of convenience which would be better sundered , even to the extent of having separate departments .
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