Example sentences of "they [verb] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a first step they tend to make sexual attacks on their female patients . |
| 2 | Now they expect to make significant inroads in patient waiting time . |
| 3 | In the early 1980s they learnt to make concentrated powders . |
| 4 | Detectives leading the hunt for Mrs Campbell 's killers said today they 'd made vital progress . |
| 5 | Detectives leading the hunt for Mrs Campbell 's killers said today they 'd made vital progress . |
| 6 | Well and they 'd made little buns . |
| 7 | After 6 months of specialist treatment here at the National Spinal Injuries Unit , doctors said they 'd made miraculous progress . |
| 8 | And in the course of time they began to make simple documentaries erm which would be something say the study of Pekin , if you happened to go there , or Italy if you happened to go , any country that to which you could go , you went and you made not just newsreels but also erm documentary studies of these films , of these places . |
| 9 | I see they have made new breadpans of the right size out of empty cooking-oil cans from the US AID supplementary feeding programme — these were brought out recently by a local agency who helped the women to build a new oven . |
| 10 | They decided to make piezonuclear fusion their primary aim with detection of gamma rays ( by a sodium iodide detector ) and neutrons both on the menu . |
| 11 | Although they were not avowedly political , they did make political pronouncements and had a ‘ privilege of approaching the Throne ’ which , by the end of the nineteenth century , had lapsed through disuse . |
| 12 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 13 | Out there in peaceful Vancouver , going about our ordinary daily tasks , even though they did make sizeable contributions to the war effort , there were some of us who felt we were not doing enough , and some of us who wanted to get into ‘ the action ’ . |
| 14 | However , they did make important contributions to the education of local residents involved in the problems of vandalism , lack of recreational facilities and housing . |
| 15 | They do enjoy them and they do make good use of them . |
| 16 | They do enjoy them and they do make good use of them . |
| 17 | But they do make sociolinguistic assumptions : in context it is clear that they also assume the early development of a socially elite variety , and we can see from the first sentence of the quotation that ‘ carefulness ’ is probably also involved . |
| 18 | They do make heavy demands on the resources of the hospital service , so steady efforts are being made to improve the preventive aspects of geriatric care . |
| 19 | They 've made hectic visits to Brussels registering your interests and meeting with those with greatest influence in the E C institutions . |
| 20 | So they 've made cheap labour . |
| 21 | They had made exaggerated claims about their membership size , among other shortcomings , the NEC said . |
| 22 | The scale of the defeat was laid firmly at the doors of several established players , who failed to turn out because they had made other arrangements on the basis that the match would fall victim to the frost . |
| 23 | In mid-October a breakthrough seemed imminent after senior trade officials from Canada , the EC , Japan and the USA , meeting in Ontario on Oct. 17-18 , claimed that they had made substantial progress in resolving the deadlock ( responsible for the suspension of an earlier round of talks between US and EC officials in Brussels on Oct. 11-12 ) . |
| 24 | They had made good time . |
| 25 | In 192 ( 71 per cent ) cases , DNs were solely responsible for current treatment ; in a further 26 ( 10 per cent ) , they had made joint treatment decisions with the GP and/or consultant , so the DN was wholly or partly responsible for 81 per cent of treatment decisions : Table 3 lists DN responses . |
| 26 | No doubt they had made considerable preparations before the news came of the cancellation ; it is hoped that they were not inconvenienced too much . |
| 27 | This improved the performance of the combine-harvester slightly ; but it was not until they had made serrated edges on all the knives that the loss of grain lessened appreciably . |
| 28 | It was over a week since the children had been removed , and both police and the Social Work Department had said they had made independent investigations which had led to their decision to take such drastic action . |
| 29 | Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones , they had sold them at high mileage car prices . |
| 30 | The point was that their claims had gone to different adjudication officers and they had made different decisions . |