Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] make [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I was even more impressed with the jacket 's performance when I wore it next to my skin — it has an antibacterial finish to the fleece which makes it suitable for this purpose .
2 Sneaking across the kitchen she made herself some bread and margarine .
3 There are no animal derived ingredients in any of the products which make them ideal for vegetarians and all formulations meet with BAUV standards .
4 Gustavo Gutierrez has stressed the importance of this remark for Latin America , adding : ‘ The preference , the predilection ( not exclusive , let's be clear ) for the poor is not opposed in the mind of the Pope to his universal mission ; on the contrary it makes his universal mission quite concrete ’ ( Alberigo and Jossua , pp. 239 , 240 ) .
5 Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general .
6 She vents her spleen on the war , the blackout , the Zeppelins which made it imperative to shut the shutters at night ; the price of groceries ; the petty bourgeois ; the landlords and the concierges .
7 Travel — On Home Ground : The performer who makes it all white on the night
8 Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that , although the definition of ‘ family proceedings ’ in section 8 of the Children Act 1989 did not specifically refer to the provisions in Part III of the Act , the section was to be read with section 92(2) of the Act which made it clear that all applications to the justices under the Act were family proceedings ; that , accordingly , the application to the justices for a secure accommodation order under section 25 in Part III of the Act were family proceedings ; and that , therefore , the statements of evidence and the psychiatrist 's report should have been admitted in evidence in accordance with the provisions of the Children ( Admissibility of Hearsay Evidence ) Order 1991 ( post , pp. 91E–G , H — 92A ) .
9 The Gospels themselves make it plain that he is not ‘ Simon Peter ’ but , rather , ‘ Simon called Peter ’ .
10 The Gospels themselves make it clear that Jesus had a brother named Jude or Judah or Judas .
11 Flowers looked a figure of total confidence from the moment he made his first save from Brazilian skipper Rai .
12 And I would also point out that we are not proposing excessive development , in one of the papers I 've I 've put round , and I repeat the point I made it earlier .
13 That is the difference which makes it irrelevant and misleading to say ( Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1971 ] 1 Q.B .
14 But I think what , perhaps the , the best thing to do is when the transcriptions come back , and this may not be till the summer because it is a very long long process , when they come back , they will all go back to the person who made them ten people .
15 If you marinade the meat it makes it full of flavour and very tender .
16 He had been caught in the spiral which made his contemporary Polybius the champion of Roman law and order .
17 The former striker played under several big-name managers from the day he made his First Division debut as a raw teenager .
18 The dubious part of the claim lies in Moore 's belief that beautiful objects with their beauty and the qualities which make them beautiful , could exist without any consciousness of them .
19 Her visitors in the Exeter nursing home where she died on 7th December saw all the qualities which made her such a servant of the trade continue unabated to the end — the common sense and humour , the courage , and the huge interest in others .
20 yeah , and they make their own , he 's got all the machinery and all , all the people they make their own pumps
21 Turning from the hardware of sea rescue to the people who make it possible the Chairman emphasised that the contribution of lifeboat crews could not be stressed too highly .
22 By displaying a map of the area he made it easy to understand his talk and he emphasised the enormous size of Brazil .
23 In his London Shadows Godwin even finds a function for the voyeurs who made it fashionable to tour the slums ‘ and wonder at the peculiarities of that strange land ’ , because ‘ it was partly owing to these visits that some improvements were carried into effect ’ .
24 Congratulations and God 's blessing on the children of the parish who make their First Holy Communion this week .
25 It will ask why women put up with their subordinate position in society , or rather , examine the strength of the pressures which make it difficult for women to produce social change despite their continuing attempts to do so .
26 The technique has enabled spectra to be obtained from the metallic cores of some important biological molecules such as hemoglobin and some enzymes , where the low concentration of the metal and the low solubility of the substance itself make it difficult to study vibrational spectra in any other way .
27 ‘ I want the name of the man who made her pregnant .
28 For his part , the President stood with the rest of the politburo on the mausoleum of the man who made it all happen — Lenin — and took the salute at the military and civilian parade through Red Square .
29 Today the President of Guinness PLC is Benjamin Guinness ( 8 ) ( b. 1937 ) , the third Earl of Iveagh and the sixth direct descendant of the man who made it all possible , over two hundred years ago .
30 The alienness of Tolkien 's elves , the thing which makes their whole history different from that of humanity , is obviously that ( in the natural course of things ) they do not die .
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