Example sentences of "make [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Only six were noted away from the coast , and birds sometimes made prolonged stays in favoured coastal marshes , for example 35 days in 1965 .
2 Munich , Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain made enthralling reading in the Manchester but what Mr Douglas remembers was the spirit of friendship offered by the school towards the refugees of the Spanish Civil War and Hitler 's Germany .
3 The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation .
4 Other services — like the police and fire brigade — do not make administrative sense in smaller areas .
5 Will he give an undertaking that he will make administrative arrangements that will equally well put into effect the entitlements that we seek in new clause 10 ?
6 Would it not make administrative sense if at least part of this site could be reserved specifically for the British Library so that in any future extension , these units could be incorporated ?
7 Bake with mushrooms and serve with creamy mashed potato for an easy , delicious comfort meal which can make dinner-party fare , too , for discerning guests .
8 Local authorities , however , faced with the need to make the most effective use of school buildings and staff , did not make parental choice the paramount consideration .
9 The Committee of the Regions may make regional governments feel better but will probably be as ineffective as the existing Economic and Social Committee .
10 The delivery itself has to be lit with communication in mind : lights which throw the midwife 's face into shadow make lipreading impossible .
11 However they will understand the difficulties of using such an unpredictable material as wood , and make due allowance for minor defects .
12 They imagine if they make subtle and marginal changes in tax rates everyone will notice .
13 The letter does not make specific the details of the matter , as one would hardly expect it to do , but Miss Kenton states unambiguously that she has now , in fact , taken the step of moving out of Mr Benn 's house in Helston and is presently lodging with an acquaintance in the nearby village of Little Compton .
14 It does not make specific demands of the growing medium , and will even grow on just fine gravel .
15 Because every individual is different XYZ Foods do not make specific claims about the amount of weight loss to expect , but most people will lose three pounds or more .
16 Dr Richard Neilman of the Nazelden Foundation in Minneapolis identifies the following eight characteristics : The sufferer thinks frequently of the next opportunity for use or may make specific resolutions not to use .
17 Such regulations could make specific practices a criminal offence and the giving of specific information mandatory .
18 Where the English language does make specific references to the female , it often has derogatory implications .
19 You have a set of notes here now I 'm not gon na start at page one and work right through to page whatever it is erm they are there for you to take away for you to make notes during these two days er and for you to take away so that they 're they 're for revision and er there are as Bob 's just discovering pages where a I 'll ask you to make make specific notes er that I 'll supply to you as we go along .
20 Both Gerrard and his opposite number Bryan Gunn made outstanding saves in a thrilling climax to the game , and Norwich manager Mike Walker feels his side are now returning to their early season form .
21 He made outstanding contributions to all branches of children 's surgery but his lifelong interest was the aetiology of malformations .
22 It was found that some of the Scottish women made outstanding progress in French language as a result of this approach .
23 At ground level the nest-owner can make exaggerated movements away from the nest and draw the killer towards itself .
24 A society consisting of educated people , like a society of healthy people , made economic sense .
25 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 .
26 To a certain extent this made economic and political sense : in economic terms it is where the council had most leverage and control , and in political terms it represented a move to a new base , one built on the strength of the white-collar and public sector unions in the changing economy and society of Sheffield .
27 Another place of worship was built in 1828 for the Methodists but as attendances dwindled in the 1970s it was decided to share with Christ church , a facility which made economic sense .
28 It also made economic sense , he said .
29 It made economic sense .
30 With a strange cock of the head that made Ace certain he was grinning , the figure handed the card to the overweight , elderly man in the sedan chair .
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