Example sentences of "make [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 2 | Gavin Pritchard-Gordon 's Peer Prince ( 3.10 ) has already won twice this season and could make that advantage tell over Josh Gifford 's Zamil . |
| 3 | I 've got ta make that cake have n't I ? |
| 4 | How can I ever make that thing stay upright ? you ask yourself . |
| 5 | It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign . |
| 6 | It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign . |
| 7 | An audible groan rippled through the new Form Two , quelled at once by one of Miss Hardbroom 's piercing glances which always made each pupil feel that they had been noticed personally . |
| 8 | For Don Dovaston , assistant chief constable of Derbyshire police , a series of schoolgirl murders made that mark run deeper . |
| 9 | He made that decision having listened to representations from hon. Members from Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | He quite possibly made that catastrophe recede by denying the aggressive Chinese access to Russian secrets . |
| 11 | In conclusion , there are wide-ranging claims made that privatisation improves efficiency , although critics argue that increasing competition has not played a sufficiently large part in the government 's privatisation programme . |
| 12 | Buy by god he made that woman come in there . |
| 13 | ‘ You made that hat blow off on purpose ! |
| 14 | He had always been pleased when she had called on him in London but made little effort to visit her in Carshalton . |
| 15 | But he made little effort to develop this outside his own definitions of the genealogical method , while his shift into the problematics of power seemed to lead him into a labyrinth from which it was virtually impossible to extract himself . |
| 16 | The lad who led her in , the irate punter who looked up at her with contempt and muttered , ‘ You 're useless ’ , Bill , who made little effort to conceal his anger as she unsaddled Boardwalk . |
| 17 | The government made little effort to conceal a belief that the rural sector had to pay for the development of the urban/industrial one . |
| 18 | We could always make each other laugh . |
| 19 | If only we could draw in nine dimensions we could make each dimension correspond to one of the nine genes . |
| 20 | We 're into the mortification of the flesh , and doing penance — we only ever eat bacon sandwiches and then make each other feel guilty at set hours every day . ’ |
| 21 | In the back of the car , Henrietta and Samantha made exaggerated vomiting sounds at the very thought of it , and Jacqueline joined enthusiastically in the pantomime . |
| 22 | The report 's recommendations are in line with the Industry 's argument that it does not make economic sense to close Britain 's nuclear power plants early and that it is far cheaper to run the stations than to close them . |
| 23 | When overseas selling operations are only small scale and it would not make economic sense to carry out such operations oneself . |
| 24 | A reverse takeover is one of the situations in which the board of the offeror company must , in accordance with Rule 3.2 , obtain competent independent advice on the offer and make that advice known to its shareholders ( see para 6.4.2 below ) . |
| 25 | If my toothache were an event analogous to , but entirely separated from the neurophysiological process that accompanies it , it would make little sense going to a dentist in search of relief . |
| 26 | One view holds it might be worth preserving only information derived from the telecommunications record , but that it would make little sense to keep it all . |
| 27 | Some of them may succeed in keeping abreast of course-work but will make little attempt to understand what has been presented to them during lectures and tutorial periods . |
| 28 | According to Land Bank 's head , former Greenpeace chairman Bryn Jones : " it does not make commercial sense to use more energy collecting the stuff [ through kerbside schemes ] than can be gained from recycling it " . |
| 29 | John Batstone , secretary of the Teesside-based North-East Coast Pension Campaign Committee , said : ‘ We hope the weight of pressure will make British Steel realise that they are being rather immoral in disposing of the surplus , which they inherited from the days of nationalisation . |
| 30 | As police and rangers made further spot checks at Wirral coastal slipways yesterday , there were signs that the clampdown has reduced the number of vehicles on the shore . |