Example sentences of "make [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvey split the words into syllables and made each syllable a step in his dance , then he changed the accents round and danced the same remark again . |
| 2 | Taking a share of the profits : Prior to s. 2(3) of the Partnership Act 1890 , the courts had decided that if a person took any share in the profits of a business this made that person a partner . |
| 3 | Too many couples do n't make each other a priority ; work , kids , everything else comes first . |
| 4 | The explosive development in the 1980s of the international financial markets made complete liberalisation a necessity , and this was achieved , following the Single European Act , by a 1988 Directive ( known as ‘ the Article 67 Directive ’ ) . |
| 5 | Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount . |
| 6 | Make old age a time of opportunity . |
| 7 | We are relying on you and all the other volunteers around the U K in your contacts with the public to help make this year a success . |
| 8 | That alone will make this tour a success for us . ’ |
| 9 | Will the Minister safeguard against that , or will he make this Bill a charter for asset strippers and property developers ? |
| 10 | Daniel Becker , director of the global warming programme of the US environmental group , the Sierra Club , declared that : " The United States helped make this conference a failure . |
| 11 | Lush valleys , reddish-brown canyons and golden sandy beaches make this island a vision to behold . |
| 12 | MANUEL CLOUTHIER , last year 's presidential candidate for Mexico 's conservative National Action Party ( PAN ) , made civil disobedience a by-word of his short political career . |
| 13 | An additional administrative charge of £5 per person will be made each time a booking is changed . |
| 14 | Alyssum flourishes , whatever the weather , and breeding advances in recent years have made this plant a lot more versatile . |
| 15 | Some are relatively unexciting and un-newsworthy for the commentator and politician , such as decision-making practices which make corporate responsibility a reality rather than a slogan . |
| 16 | Giscard d'Estaing made broadcasting reform a priority : as with de Gaulle before him , and Mitterrand ( in 1981–2 and 1988 ) and Chirac ( in 1986 ) since , broadcasting was presented as one of the unsolved problems of the previous regime . |
| 17 | and it 's usually about , we make ten pound a morning thirty pound |
| 18 | His hyperactive life ( conductor , teacher , editor , writer and , more darkly , politician ) made systematic practice a luxury . |
| 19 | During this period I have learnt a great deal about what children like [ and dislike ] at parties and have gathered together a selection of games , songs and magic tricks which I can guarantee will make any party a day to remember , for both children and adults . |
| 20 | After victory over China in 1895 made territorial control a reality , the haphazard search for political and economic influence ( direct or indirect ) of earlier years became a systematic one , in which emulation of Western imperialism was seen as both practicable and desirable . |
| 21 | It was soldiers returning from the battlefields who 're credited with making that election a labour landslide . |
| 22 | I remember making this point a couple of years ago , yeah I made this point last year and I showed these pictures , I spent about twenty minutes on it , the following week I was , I was libelously accused and it was a libel , it was a serious libel erm er that I , that I said that females always had to submit erm I was very angry about that . |
| 23 | As Cureton says ( p. 432 ) , it " overcomes the problem of phrasal variability by making this variability a design feature of the theoretical system " . |
| 24 | " For young Gedge to say , " he said quietly , " that he has seen a person watching boys playing rounders hardly makes that person a homosexual . |
| 25 | I I asked the er the minister earlier about this question and I appreciate his difficulties being a home office minister rather than a foreign office minister and I quite understand his reluctance to er stray too far from his departmental portfolio but the reality is that the British government agreed that the European parliament should continue to meet in Strasbourg but we 've heard nothing from the minister as to where the money should come from er in order to make that commitment a reality because I 'm sure that every member opposite would say that the uncertainty about the present boundaries is not the er responsibility of the British government , that it 's a matter for the French government to sort out which boundaries er will be in place in the United Kingdom by June the ninth , the date of the European elections , but the reality is that the British government have gone along with the arrangement for having Strasbourg recognised as a er seat for the European parliament . |
| 26 | The court accepted that in certain circumstances information about prices could be invested with a sufficient degree of confidentiality to make that information a business secret or its equivalent but in the present case it found factors which led it to the conclusion that neither the information about the prices nor the sales information as a whole had the degree of confidentiality necessary to support the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 27 | We tried to make each area a village with its own identity , a village hall and community , ’ she said . |
| 28 | In the case of parish , town and community councils the Minister makes each year a block allocation of funds for capital expenditure borrowing , which is administered by the National Association of Local Councils . |
| 29 | So , once again , having committed itself to support the fictional or , at most , ‘ evolutionary ’ independence of Vietnam , the US was just as dependent as ever on France to make this vision a reality . |
| 30 | We praise God for the progress already made and ask for your prayers and support as we seek to make this project a reality . |