Example sentences of "he makes a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He makes a convincing case for links of various sorts and degrees between West European countries going back as much as 5,000 years , but his thesis has one weakness . |
| 2 | The moment he makes a great catch it surprises you , but then you think : Gee , that 's what he does . ’ |
| 3 | First , he makes a great deal of the struggle with Satan in which Jesus is involved both in the temptation in the wilderness into which the Spirit thrusts him ( Mark 1:12 ) immediately after his baptism ; and also in the healings and exorcisms which follow during the ministry . |
| 4 | He makes a great deal , as we have seen , of the gift of the Holy Spirit to Jesus : but only once in the ministry does he speak of the disciples having the Spirit . |
| 5 | In A High And Lonely Place he makes a trenchant analysis of the despoilation of the Cairngorms . |
| 6 | Much has changed since he was at the Academy in 1959 and he will soon see just how much When he makes a personal tour of the Academy . |
| 7 | Like both the Aristotelians and Gassendi , Locke talks of their ‘ natures ’ or ‘ essences ’ , but in doing so he makes a sharp distinction between ‘ real ’ and ‘ nominal ’ essence . |
| 8 | I do so want to help him before he makes a complete fool of himself . |
| 9 | He makes a firm proposal that the age of majority should be gradually reduced to 10 years , and remarks : |
| 10 | Whether or not he makes a good King , we shall have wait and see . |
| 11 | He makes a good point there , though I would have preferred Craig Redpath , the swashbuckling Melrose full-back , as back-up for Gavin Hastings . |
| 12 | He makes a good point . |
| 13 | Early on he makes a general point , one taken up by later writers , that there is a relativity about identity . |
| 14 | The courts have stated that the driver who was driving the vehicle with the consent of the owner does not become guilty of s.12 if he makes a reasonable deviation , e.g. to go to the toilet . |
| 15 | ‘ Leave him be , Andrew , he makes a lousy hero . |
| 16 | He exaggerates when he speaks of a ‘ deafening silence , from historians on the land question , but he makes a strong case for placing the land issue near the centre of any sound historical analysis of the period . |
| 17 | I wish that it were possible to bring more of those who are responsible for them to justice , but , as my hon. Friend knows , because he makes a close study of such matters , it is often impossible for the police to identify those who are responsible . |
| 18 | Well the honourable gentleman as always makes er more than a debating point , I think he makes a serious point which er deserves to be answered , erm it is not , if I can put it this way , the intention of these orders er to turn auditors into er snoopers or narks er and to do so I think runs some very serious risks , not only of reducing and undermining the relationship between auditors and their clients , not only of imposing very substantial additional cost burdens on auditors which will have to be borne by companies and ultimately their clients , but also there has an example he 's given I think to be some difference , put it no more than that between public money and private money , even though I acknowledge that were talking here about the trusteeship in some cases of of er d er public deposits and funds . |
| 19 | He makes a final appearance with two ships at Middleburg , the port of Zealand , on 8 June 1560 . |
| 20 | But here he makes a surprising discovery . |
| 21 | He makes a mental note to call Keith a second time at 7:15 . |
| 22 | When he enters he makes a muted sound of surprise . |
| 23 | If a taxpayer has two residences he can elect which of them is to be treated as his main residence ( s222(5) ) for the purpose of the exemption and notwithstanding the terms of the above concession the husband can avoid difficulty if he makes a positive election . |
| 24 | James Bolam takes the lead , and he makes a fair job of it . |
| 25 | If he makes a bad shot he says it 's because he 's blind but Gary says it 's because his technique is wrong . |
| 26 | He makes a tortured film about European visions of America ; he wants to demonstrate the ‘ melting pot ’ in the film , plaster it with psychology and try not to miss any aspects of it . |
| 27 | But he makes a lively film and he will be heard of again . |
| 28 | While Solomon is posing as a German soldier , for example , he makes a botched attempt to surrender to the Russians that results in his inadvertently capturing their position — but the irony is passed over in so offhand a fashion that one barely notices it . |
| 29 | For example , he makes a Greek woman use a Jewish Messianic title ( Matt. |
| 30 | They look more surprised than anybody when his heart restarts and then he makes a gurgling noise in his throat . |