Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] in [noun] make [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This occurs when the similarities are subtle or intricate , or when they require prolonged discrimination in order to make them intelligible . |
| 2 | I give the commitment that , when the Government are re-elected , we shall continue to fight to reduce the burden of regulation on British industry in order to make us even more competitive than we are already . |
| 3 | It might seem appropriate to extend theft in this way in order to make it cover as many ways as possible of getting property dishonestly . |
| 4 | Has the British embassy in Germany made it clear to the German authorities how deeply shocking and despicable have been the racist attacks by Nazi thugs there ? |
| 5 | Such strength in depth makes it hardly surprising that England A struggled in their recent ‘ Test ’ series over there . |
| 6 | The cliffs themselves are banted back in order to make them safe from rock falls and so forth , but they , they do still suffer from weathering attack by rain , by frost , and the combination of salt from spray and frost is quite damaging , so that anybody who walks along the undercliff knows that in winter , for example , you tend to get a sludge of erm white erm finely divided wet chalk which sledges off erm cliff , particularly those people in recent years who 've walked behind the marina , where it no longer gets washed off by the high tide erm where Brighton Corporation have to keep trying to remove it . |
| 7 | REPORTS about Vinny Jones being the hardest man in football make me smile . |
| 8 | They turned him down on ‘ security grounds ’ ; a lot of the Surinamese living in Holland make it plain that they do not like him at all . |
| 9 | Li Shai Tung drew closer , operating the remote from a distance of almost three hundred thousand li , adjusting the camera image with the most delicate of touches , the slight delay in response making him cautious . |
| 10 | The present situation in Russia makes it impossible for the centre to control this process . |
| 11 | As we noted in Chapter 10 , oligopolists have an incentive to carry out socially unproductive advertising in order to make it harder for new entrants to meet the fixed costs of breaking into the industry , thereby leaving more of the market and the profit for existing firms . |
| 12 | Charles Darwin would cut a heavy book in halves to make it more convenient to handle , and fix broken sections together with strong metal clips . |
| 13 | It was sold to the Housing Association at a reduced value in order to make it viable . |
| 14 | The deepening recession in Germany makes it more and more certain that German companies will have to transfer manufacturing overseas , and so long as the former Comecon countries remain outside the European Community , Ireland will be one of the most cost-effective places to site new plants . |
| 15 | However , the Conservative Party in opposition made it clear that they too would maintain a strong central guidance over the economy , when returned to power . |
| 16 | His financial skills were freely given to the work of the church and the warmth of his welcome to visitors and his genuine interest in people made him a host of friends . |
| 17 | Well you do know th th that you 're saying that they want to make a particular point strongly and er that that might involve erm an elephant in of bad taste in order to make it striking and to make people look at it and think about it . |