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 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 .
5 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 .
6 They made the front roll bar so much stiffer that the cars understeered out of the race with the front tyres worn out .
7 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 .
8 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 :
9 TWO of the jurors who were instrumental in jailing Mike Tyson on a charge of rape have decided they made the wrong decision .
10 With hindsight in Andrew Hagans case they made the wrong decision .
11 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 ) .
12 with a , well they , they made the wooden stick and I got the Pitman 's book and
13 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 .
14 14 : ‘ Thou shalt not commit adultery ’ they made the catastrophic error of leaving out the word not .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 they make the front part of the sail considerably more efficient and are primarily used in racing .
18 Even when they make the right choice , they do n't let the choice go through .
19 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 .
20 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 . ’
21 The dimensions of the flats are almost as modest as Loudon 's , but they make the maximum use of the space provided , as the key to the plan suggests .
22 They make the organizational labyrinth less treacherous , make it easier to find the other team members , help groom the baton before passing it along , assist management by providing them with mature ideas for review and generally increase the odds of getting a hearing for ideas within the organization .
23 Does it enable them to make the right choice in the heat of the moment ?
24 Greenwich was set up as a new meridian which would suit the astronomers ' convenience , and the government relied on them to make the new meridian into a suitable base-line for calculating the longitude .
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