Example sentences of "makes a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is due not so much to positive resistance on the part of the incumbent civil servants , as to their preconceptions of what makes a suitable candidate for the higher Civil Service . |
| 2 | Top left : Elizabeth Jane 's father installed this shelf above a kitchen window and it now makes a colourful setting for a blue and white plate collection . |
| 3 | The basic unit of bucket , up-pipe and pebbles with oxygenators in place makes a simple fountain on its own . |
| 4 | It makes a gnarled specimen with minute , round leaves and has a good crop of black berries in winter . |
| 5 | Robert Jackson , for example , envisages a " middle way " as a " study of religions conducted in such a way that it makes a distinctive contribution to the pupils ' development of a coherent and personally satisfying set of beliefs and values " ( Jackson 1987 : 17 ) . |
| 6 | Nevin makes a great run to the byline but his flick-back is missed in a goalmouth scramble by Malkin and John Aldridge before the keeper falls on the ball . |
| 7 | His being so ill used for being my friend , makes a great outcry against me , and will certainly contribute largely to make my other friends shy in appearing for me . ’ |
| 8 | It stands directly in the line of great folk operas , such as Verdi 's La Forza del Destino ( The Force of Destiny ) and Mussorgsky 's Boris Godunov , and , like them , it makes a great play with the chorus as a centre of passion . |
| 9 | And makes a great meal of that material . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's very determined — makes a great effort with the exercises . ’ |
| 11 | He still maintains that he believes this , and makes a great show of sending off a manuscript to publishers down in London , trying to get them to publish a book expounding this view , but I know he 's just mischief-making again , and gets most of his pleasure from his acts of stunned disbelief and then righteous indignation when the manuscript is eventually returned . |
| 12 | ‘ It makes a great difference to our research work , to both our projects . |
| 13 | It certainly makes a great difference to our lives when we see prayer as delighting in God . |
| 14 | Because she 's good in earthquakes and she makes a great cup of tea . |
| 15 | Psychology makes a great deal of this malleability of behaviour and has developed a technology designed to help people overcome behavioural difficulties and overcome habit problems . |
| 16 | Thinking about it carefully in a practical way rather than just muddling through makes a great deal of difference in coping successfully day by day . |
| 17 | Stress and conflict belong together , and the way we feel about what we do makes a great deal of difference to our inner store of pressures . |
| 18 | It makes a great deal of sense to include a reference on all business letters . |
| 19 | Er if I 'm going to give two weeks after anyway for the Councils , I do n't really think it makes a great deal of difference whether it be Friday er afternoon or Monday afternoon . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But the theory is a mechanistic one ; the individual creature is genetically pre-programmed to act in the way it does ; statistically speaking it has no choice ; within a narrow range of variation , it always makes a predictable response to identifiable patterns of stimuli originating in the external environment . |
| 22 | Obviously , if a company makes a new type of computer program which proves to be very successful , other companies will want to bring out their own versions of that type of program in order to gain a share in the market created or stimulated by the first program . |
| 23 | In Katsikas , on the other hand , the Court makes a new departure in its own reasoning . |
| 24 | Each time you |
| 25 | The Torquay shop apparently makes a new flavour of ice-cream every day of the year . |
| 26 | Geras makes a similar point by emphasizing the idealism inherent in Althusser 's separation of theoretical practice ( science ) from political practice ( Geras 1977 : 268 ) . |
| 27 | Wright ( 1984 ) makes a similar point in discussing the narrative style of one of Sutcliffe 's speakers , Malcolm , which she contrasts with one of her own informants , Tania . |
| 28 | ‘ If Mr Smith makes a similar motion to our council , it will be up to individual members to decide how to vote . ’ |
| 29 | Paragraph 8 of the council 's statement of claim makes a similar assertion in relation to the article of 24 September . |
| 30 | For every card issued , the Bank of Scotland makes a financial contribution to HCIMA . |