Example sentences of "[pers pn] makes [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His description of how he watched helplessly as one of the deadly missiles thundered towards him makes chilling reading . |
| 32 | At the same time , he makes useful points which can lead us to other conclusions : |
| 33 | Through his powers , he makes fertile the jungle and rivers : he travels to all the sacred homes of the ‘ parents of the animals and fish ’ beneath the earth , and transforms the inhabitants of these subterranean villages into the form of animal and fish . |
| 34 | Gustave writes this in one of his earliest letters to Louise Colet ; and over a seven-year period ( 1846–53 ) he makes occasional references to the planned autobiography . |
| 35 | On which he makes two statements : first , that we are unmoved by it ; second , that it is a tragedy , especially to the eight-year-old son . |
| 36 | Against this background he makes two remarks about children : |
| 37 | Editor , — Nicholas Wald rightly emphasises the importance and the ethical nature of randomised multicentre prevention trials , but he makes two statements that can not go unchallenged . |
| 38 | He makes two points : one , that they are as numerous proportionately in Edinburgh as in London , but in Scottish towns more plentiful than in comparable English locations ; and two , on the whole he finds them more quiet , and modest . |
| 39 | as if that is not enough , he makes two other shattering claims . |
| 40 | Because in that paper there is a passage where Trivers says , if my theory is right , and basically it 's this Trivers Willard thing he was talking about , that parents and offspring will be in conflict about parental investment , he says , if my theory is right and if parents discriminate investment on the basis of offspring success , then he makes two predictions . |
| 41 | In coming to this conclusion he makes two important observations . |
| 42 | Al Gore falls asleep as he makes maiden speech as Vice-President ; no-one notices — they 're all asleep too . |
| 43 | And it means rising with Christ too ; rising to share in the new life which he makes possible , and which in the fullest detail Paul , in Romans chapter eight , ascribes to the Spirit of Jesus , resident within us . |
| 44 | Even my dad , he makes sexist remarks to me about my looks . |
| 45 | ( Thus Auer complains of Gumperz that " sometimes he makes strong claims about the effect of a given type or instance of code switching on the subsequent development of the sequence , which are based on informants ' reports , but fails to reproduce this subsequent passage " ( Auer 1984b : 106 , fn. 10 ) . ) |
| 46 | He makes vast series of variations on given sets of conditions . |
| 47 | Richard Dawkins writes very well about this , I mean , he makes complete , he shows that Lamarckism is total nonsense , er , which of course it is . |
| 48 | In his memoirs , Carter is more restrained , but even there he makes much of Congressional Quarterly presidential support scores to support his claim that he ‘ did reasonably well in ( his ) overall relationship with congress ’ . |
| 49 | He does n't suppose he makes much sense to her , but it 's nice she listens . |
| 50 | Conscious , like his rivals , that he could be seen as a Southern carpet bagger , he makes much fuss of the Labour stalwarts . |
| 51 | He makes great videos as well . |
| 52 | The PLAYER stands with huge , terrible eyes , clutches at the wound as the blade withdraws : he makes small weeping sounds and falls to his knees , and then right down : While he is dying , GUIL , nervous , high , almost hysterical , wheels on the TRAGEDIANS ) If we have a destiny , then so had he — and if this is ours , then that was his — and if there are no explanation for us , then let there be none for him ( The TRAGEDIANS watch the PLAYER die : they watch with some interest . |
| 53 | He makes apparent both his sympathies with rural life and the fact that mere retreat to the tradition of the countryside is not enough . |
| 54 | Ashton does something similar in Symphonic Variations where he makes overall phrase rhythms from pas de burrée en place accompanied by very distinctive ports de bras . |
| 55 | He makes explicit that he is not writing as some individual Messianic figure propounding an individualistic gospel deriving from ‘ the ineffable wisdom of primitive peoples ’ . |
| 56 | With this aim in view , he makes explicit that what the sceptics deny is the possibility of knowledge of ‘ the inner nature of things … what the things are in themselves ’ ; when they say that there is no criterion of truth , ‘ they are not speaking of what things appear to be and of what is revealed by the senses … but of what things are in themselves , which is so hidden that no criterion can disclose it ’ . |
| 57 | By paying careful attention to what Marx fails to say ( his ‘ silences ’ ) as well as to what he makes explicit , Althusser hopes to recover two things : the questions Marx was trying to answer , and the general theoretical assumptions underlying his replies . |
| 58 | He makes explicit what is perhaps implicit in Taskopruzade , namely that Molla Yegan was from the province of Aydin , and adds to the sentence about his becoming muderris at certain medreses in Bursa the fact that this was through the agency of Molla Fenari . |
| 59 | He makes that sucking noise through his teeth . |
| 60 | He makes that sucking noise with his teeth again . |