Example sentences of "[pers pn] makes the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she makes the occasional mistake , he points it out discreetly and quietly . |
| 2 | So you would need to look carefully at her stories and other writing , and see if she makes the same kind of mistake here . |
| 3 | He makes the reasonable point that the upholders of traditional positions might achieve a new plausibility if they could be seen actually arguing for them , rather than merely asserting them . |
| 4 | Generally , a person organises a procession or an assembly when he makes the necessary arrangements for the conduct of the event by initiating it , planning the route or location , or assists in doing so . |
| 5 | Well , so we do , about Handel and the way he makes the best effect ( at least on us ) ; but a different kind of historical awareness is needed here , one that puts us into the frame of mind of late eighteenth-century Vienna and its perception of Handel . |
| 6 | On his return to London he makes the following comment on the period 8 to 14 November , presumably spent with Helen Noble : ‘ The holiest and best of pleasures . |
| 7 | Rearing and plunging through bravura passagework and revelling in every opportunity for the richest variety of voicing and texture , he makes the many years since the work 's first performance roll away . |
| 8 | ( He makes the half-hearted suggestion of Lothar 's having studied notarial arts . ) |
| 9 | Not surprisingly he makes the odd enemy . |
| 10 | ‘ If he makes the wrong decision , ’ continues Niki , ‘ he becomes my opponent … |
| 11 | If he makes the wrong decision minor problems can snowball into an injury which requires months of physiotherapy . |
| 12 | But he has not learned his lesson yet as by preferring one daughter over another by her allowance of more knights , he makes the same mistake again . |
| 13 | Regrettably , he makes the same point in his brilliant collection of causeries In Defence Of Art , gathered together by his wife Aileen , in 1988 , when he links Susan Musgrave 's ‘ inner nightmares ’ to Leonard 's ‘ early poetry ’ . |
| 14 | Unpaid , he makes the 90 mile round trip to Esh Winning three times a week for a total £10 expenses . |
| 15 | He makes the whole thing much easier . |
| 16 | It is a pity that Michael Coe 's essay on Maya hieroglyphs is not illustrated , but he makes the interesting point that vessels appear to be labelled much as they were in the classical world of the Mediterranean . |
| 17 | He makes the Marcan account less vivid . |
| 18 | It 's it 's they 're allergic to gluten and it makes the inner bowel inflamed so it gives him |
| 19 | It makes the actual work of ferreting uncomfortable and those days when the rainfall is persistent are neither comfortable nor the most sporting . |
| 20 | A simple round neck style with wrist length sleeves it makes the perfect foil for a favourite scarf or piece of jewellery . |
| 21 | It makes the familiar look sparklingly new . |
| 22 | The model is not a faithful copy of the real thing but because of its simplification it makes the real thing easier to study and learn . |
| 23 | Economic analysis helps the doctor to select the right treatment because it makes the moral issues absolutely explicit . ’ |
| 24 | Put this way , it makes the adolescent speakers described sound like adept linguists , at least with respect to a monolingual norm . |
| 25 | I 've tried most of the guitar synths and stuff , but I just prefer my instrument : it 's very human and it makes the right noise . |
| 26 | The time span of the thinking is too long , it makes the present moment arbitrary , a point on a graph that is in itself meaningless . |
| 27 | As a consequence of this approach it makes the whole process accessible , meaningful and feasible . |
| 28 | If you cut the wires on your equipment very short , it makes the whole effect tidier , but means that you could have problems if you shift the equipment around , or buy a larger tank , as the wires may not be long enough . |
| 29 | Chairman it makes the whole thing far simpler I think because there is n't really no disagreement about this whatsoever . |
| 30 | It makes the British attitude to planemaking — make it commercial or defence oriented and make it pay PDQ — look plain shortsighted and stupid . |