Example sentences of "[pers pn] makes the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ( He makes the half-hearted suggestion of Lothar 's having studied notarial arts . ) |
7 | Not surprisingly he makes the odd enemy . |
8 | ‘ If he makes the wrong decision , ’ continues Niki , ‘ he becomes my opponent … |
9 | If he makes the wrong decision minor problems can snowball into an injury which requires months of physiotherapy . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 ’ . |
12 | Unpaid , he makes the 90 mile round trip to Esh Winning three times a week for a total £10 expenses . |
13 | He makes the whole thing much easier . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | He makes the Marcan account less vivid . |
16 | It 's it 's they 're allergic to gluten and it makes the inner bowel inflamed so it gives him |
17 | It makes the actual work of ferreting uncomfortable and those days when the rainfall is persistent are neither comfortable nor the most sporting . |
18 | A simple round neck style with wrist length sleeves it makes the perfect foil for a favourite scarf or piece of jewellery . |
19 | It makes the familiar look sparklingly new . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | As a consequence of this approach it makes the whole process accessible , meaningful and feasible . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Chairman it makes the whole thing far simpler I think because there is n't really no disagreement about this whatsoever . |
26 | It makes the British attitude to planemaking — make it commercial or defence oriented and make it pay PDQ — look plain shortsighted and stupid . |
27 | ‘ The court sees no ground for saying that , for present purposes , it makes the slightest difference whether under the old law the offence would have been false pretences or larceny by a trick . |
28 | If it is excitatory , it makes the postsynaptic cell more likely to fire whereas if the signal is inhibitory it makes the postsynaptic cell less likely to fire . |
29 | If it is excitatory , it makes the postsynaptic cell more likely to fire whereas if the signal is inhibitory it makes the postsynaptic cell less likely to fire . |
30 | Over time it makes the domestic industry less competitive . |