Example sentences of "they make the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our aim is to help them make the right purchase by giving them all the information they need . |
| 2 | But the flow of immigrants went on , with very little space to receive the new settlers , so in 1628 some of them made the easy move from St. Kitts to Nevis , and a couple of years later made a slightly longer move and occupied the islands of Antigua and Monserrat , laying the foundations of English settlement in the Leeward Islands . |
| 3 | Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team . |
| 4 | She never knew which one of them made the first move , but suddenly , unaccountably , she was in his arms , his hands pressing against her back to draw her closer still . |
| 5 | Only if would-be parents fully understand about mental handicap can they make the right sort of rational decisions when faced with these circumstances and face the situation with a true sense of proportion . |
| 6 | Neither in Germany nor in the Habsburg empire did they make the slightest difference to the way in which foreign policy was decided and carried out . |
| 7 | Is it that would they make the same kind of comment to one of their male students , like ‘ that 's a nice jumper you 've got on ’ , something like that ? |
| 8 | they made the best discovery . |
| 9 | They made the best discovery of all . |
| 10 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |
| 11 | The Party never listened to him , anyway , and it was about 15 years before they made the gushing film of the Kinnocks on the clifftop — otherwise know as Jonathan Livingstone Kinnock . |
| 12 | They made the front roll bar so much stiffer that the cars understeered out of the race with the front tyres worn out . |
| 13 | Mark you , until they made the ghastly mistake which led to Raith 's first goal — ‘ an absolutely diabolical goal for a team of professionals to lose , ’ was Scott 's verdict — Dunfermline had Raith 's measure . |
| 14 | If any wonder whether they made the right decision to come home and marry a British man , Dolly Howard who danced round the world had the wittiest appreciation of the difference between the continental men and the boys back home : |
| 15 | TWO of the jurors who were instrumental in jailing Mike Tyson on a charge of rape have decided they made the wrong decision . |
| 16 | With hindsight in Andrew Hagans case they made the wrong decision . |
| 17 | In this paper they made the remarkable prediction that radiation ( in the form of photons ) from the very hot early stages of the universe should still be around today , but with its temperature reduced to only a few degrees above absolute zero ( - 2730 ° C ) . |
| 18 | with a , well they , they made the wooden stick and I got the Pitman 's book and |
| 19 | They made the obvious point that a commercial port is a 24-hour operation and would attract heavy goods vehicles up and down Bridge and Medway Roads at all hours . |
| 20 | 14 : ‘ Thou shalt not commit adultery ’ they made the catastrophic error of leaving out the word not . |
| 21 | Their cattle are finished : they made the last batch of bread with oxblood to save what 's left of the water , and they drink that mixed with wine , of which there is n't all that much , either . |
| 22 | But even though they made the ideal start yesterday , taking a third minute lead through David McAnulty , they had no answer to Holywood 's class . |
| 23 | Virginia was suddenly as white as her sister-in-law as they made the tortuous descent down the wide , dog-leg staircase , and across the hall . |
| 24 | they make the front part of the sail considerably more efficient and are primarily used in racing . |
| 25 | Austria , Czechoslovakia or Italy seem to be Scotland 's most likely opponents if they make the second phase . |
| 26 | Even when they make the right choice , they do n't let the choice go through . |
| 27 | Very few ‘ raw ’ diaries are published these days unless , as in the case of wartime victims of concentration camps , they make the greatest impact by the very nature of their rawness and contemporaneity . |
| 28 | He is also puzzled by the fact that the Smyrna and Georgetown plants both have a pool of job applicants selected for them by their state governments before they make the final choice . |
| 29 | The authors counsel that one should only use indicators which yield convergent results , and they make the useful point that ‘ while some of the output indicators are clearly linked to scientific production , their links with scientific progress are more complex and problematic . ’ |
| 30 | When cooking with the children we want to finish with something eatable , so we are likely to add the liquid carefully ourselves , but we could let children experiment with the play-dough and if they make the first lot too soggy , more flour and salt can be added without much trouble until they make a ‘ workable ’ dough , and there can be plenty of conversation about too much , too little , a little more , a lot more and enough . |