Example sentences of "make [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Labour 's petit Bourbons fail to recognise at last that the division of the non-Tory vote has for two decades made majority Labour government impossible , and that the Liberal Democrats are not going to disappear , then at least a disunited rump of the UK will be consigned forever to that category . |
| 2 | The National Travel Survey 1985–86 found that , overall , older people make 50% fewer journeys per week than the population as a whole . |
| 3 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
| 4 | We made camp that night in a clearing in the woods , and I put up my tent in what appeared to be a large sandpit , in the vague hope that perhaps the mozzies might not like it . |
| 5 | Good , do you do you make present any sort of presentations ? |
| 6 | These are n't my lecture notes they I cribbed them off the social psychologist and made copies last night . |
| 7 | The organic meat , the lambs , have been a success and made money last year . |
| 8 | Make Prince Charming step out . |
| 9 | Suffolk-based Eastern Electricity , which last year made £157 million profit , has asked 1,700 workers aged over 50 to apply for early retirement . |
| 10 | The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous Jilly Cooper ( Bantam Press , May , £14.99 ) . |
| 11 | If the objects of the society are not charitable , the rule against perpetuities ( see p. 42 ) , from which charities , provided that they are to begin within the perpetuity period , are exempt , will make void any gift of property by way of permanent endowment , whether made by will or otherwise ; but there is nothing to prevent gifts or bequests from being made to a non-charitable society in such terms that it can , at any time , dispose of the capital at its pleasure . |
| 12 | But the demands of war under his son made imperative some addition to fifteenths and tenths . |
| 13 | The emergency team made Echo front page headlines when they rescued the 27-year-old mother and her eight-month-old son . |
| 14 | Anderson believes the TV deal with Warner Brothers could make Cole another £100,000 . |
| 15 | Joyful reunion may make South African history : Albertina Sisulu and Nelson Mandela talked of old times and new strategy , she told John Carlin at her home in Soweto |
| 16 | The Chinese made Groomers half inch hair brush has been on the market for eight years . |
| 17 | THE Government has to reform the ‘ draconian ’ legislation which can make newsagents innocent victims of the law which bans the sale of tobacco to children under 16 . |
| 18 | Explanations would only make matters ten times worse . |
| 19 | The EFTA deal , which includes extra tonnage of north-east arctic cod , seems to do so , but there is a fear that , when the common fisheries policy comes up for review and renewal , the wheeling and dealing over fish then will make Maastricht this week look like a teddy bears ' picnic . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the bookies have made Swindon four-to-five-on favourites to clinch their place in the Premier League after their aggregate victory over Tranmere in the Semi-Final . |
| 21 | Taczek told me he could think of nothing from those times that would have made Mills any sort of target for a KGB assassin — or any other sort of assassin come to that . ’ |
| 22 | Long derided as the product of a fevered brain , Docklands has made progress this year , despite backlash from Olympia & York 's £5.8bn worldwide debts . |
| 23 | Made debut last season . |
| 24 | The hit movie has made dinosaurs big business — one company is struggling to meet demand for models selling at more than seventy pounds a time . |
| 25 | Hewlett-Packard Co accompanied news that it had made $261m net profit for its fiscal first quarter ( a decline of 21% before a big accounting charge last time ) with news that it cut 1,700 jobs worldwide during the period . |
| 26 | The market , if the desultory interest shown in the Silver Ring could be described as such , had made Boardwalk second favourite to a horse called Bite the Bullet . |
| 27 | She 'd only made 60p that day . |
| 28 | Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries was strongly in demand after results today showed it had made record half-year profits . |
| 29 | But he says : ‘ They are difficult to assess because they have made changes each time . |
| 30 | Furthermore , the dealer can point to the oil stocks that have made investors good money , e.g. Monument Oil and Gas , Clyde Petroleum , Cluff Oil , Britoil . |