Example sentences of "they [vb mod] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But do n't be fooled — they may make riveting holiday snaps , but adventurous travellers can , and do , catch all these tropical diseases . |
| 2 | Some urban families do still look back to their rural roots ; while they may never have lived in the areas from which their ancestors originally came , they may make regular visits to the furusato and bring up their children to do likewise . |
| 3 | When tenants take on a lease they may make extensive alterations to the premises in order to make them better suited to the type of catering enterprise they intend to undertake . |
| 4 | They may be unresponsive to ministerial suggestions , and they may make this opposition very clear through the local authority associations . |
| 5 | Julia Castillo , Vice-President of the Constituent Assembly remarked : " The majority " of Salvadorean women have not been supported by marriage and they must make enormous sacrifices ' ( San Salvador , April 1983 ) . |
| 6 | He says the plan will be to open up a number of railway lines and connect local communities and they 'll make good family cycling ; not the steep gradients mountain bikers like , but nice gradients related to the old gradients of the railway lines . |
| 7 | Over and over again , maybe a hundred , hundred and fifty times in one match and they 'll make one mistake and usually like Coleman was there to c , I think Coleman backed up well and Gareth backed up well once or twice . |
| 8 | ‘ Then they 'll make better targets , ’ said Grimma , her eyes alight . |
| 9 | ‘ They 'll make short work of it at the end of their river trip . ’ |
| 10 | Once people have moved in , they 'll make lovely homes . |
| 11 | That they might make other choices than the ones we wish them to make ? |
| 12 | They might make special efforts for these children to maximise the chances that they will have some sort of positive experience in their school lives . |
| 13 | They had employment merely for one year and no chance of employment in which they could make long-term plans for buying a house , for retiring and so on . |
| 14 | Maxim just wanted to know where the battle lines now stood so that they could make new plans . |
| 15 | Maybe the class are model makers ; they could make still images of their favourite cartoon characters . |
| 16 | Veterinarians indicated that they could make significant use of videos to demonstrate a gradual deterioration in health and how animals reacted and behaved when suffering certain illnesses . |
| 17 | Heavier than the previous two rock types , they 'd make superb caverns along with some slate . |
| 18 | Oh yes , they were all fed properly , looked after alright , but they all , they told me they were all pedigrees but I doubt cos I do n't know whether that 's the truth , but they reckon in Poland when things were bad , when they unload them , they 'd make some excuse that one of these pigs got out and run away and course they used to catch it er , somewhere they used to catch it and that was their fee then . |
| 19 | There was quite a few men and made more or less the customers ' requirements and when I was in charge , there was sixteen and they , about in two or three parties , er you know and they 'd make different kinds of locks what was ordered and not particularly er mortice or rim er what the customer required . |
| 20 | they 'd make more noise would n't they ? |
| 21 | They would make good sandrat material . |
| 22 | I know that local playgroups find them useful , certainly for skittles and as cone and ball games , but I though maybe if they were filled with some sort of plaster and decorated , they would make good door stops . |
| 23 | The ground dipped between two minor cliffs , and the architect must have figured they would make swell windbreaks . |
| 24 | That 's correct Chairman I think erm , we will be looking obviously to see what the prospects were within er the urban area and er sites do and surprisingly do continue to arrive and come up and we some other uses , erm they would make some contribution obviously erm , the other options would as you say be to look beyond beyond the greenbelt at the opportunities that are available there . |
| 25 | I mean , I think , I had n't realized that they would make different decisions on medical grounds . |
| 26 | They would make more money that way . |
| 27 | We have to trust the districts can trust the county the county can trust the districts and that in practice they would make this work at local plan level . |
| 28 | Thus , they will make little contribution to the probability of the particle 's going from A to B. But the numbers from the straight paths will add up with the numbers from paths that are almost straight . |
| 29 | It seems likely that they will make little impact , one reason being that they appear to be more concerned with targeting existing jobs rather than creating genuinely new ones . |
| 30 | ‘ Left to play on their own in a playground , they wo n't promptly break a leg — they will make good choices about the risks they run . |