Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adj] [noun] make [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet reticence in sexual matters makes it less than probable that these will be the first mentioned . |
| 2 | Its unique policy of lending only on houses that encourage self-sufficiency and homes that promote a saving in non-renewable energy makes it worth every penny . |
| 3 | Both the scale of his operations and the degree of his specialization in financial business made him a unique figure in early Stuart England , though he did have a few other economic irons in the fire : among them , a share in the tobacco monopoly and the export of iron ordnance in the 1620s and huge purchases of East India Company pepper in 1623 and 1628 . |
| 4 | " Accommodation theory " demonstrates that speakers adjust their speech in various ways to make it more similar or dissimilar to that of their interlocutors ( see Giles and Smith 1979 for a review . ) |
| 5 | The resurgence of interest in cognitive processes makes it impossible to hold such a simple view any longer and nowadays most psychologists recognize that there are psychological processes , like verbal communication and the symbolic representation of future events , that can only reliably be demonstrated in other people . |