Example sentences of "[pers pn] make [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The popes pressed their primatial and jurisdictional claims with impressive continuity in this period ; using every appeal to them made by Carolingian churchmen seeking to bolster their own positions ; making a bid to establish the authority of the papacy over the Bulgarian church ; declaring its sole power to establish a new archbishopric as at Magdeburg in 968 ; and developing the special relationship with the new Polish church at the turn of the first millennium which would ultimately bear fruit in a Polish pope at the turn of the second . |
| 2 | He knows the representation that I made with other colleagues only a fortnight ago . |
| 3 | I still possess a tape-recording of a news report I made for Irish radio in which — to a background of Palestinian rifle fire — I hear my own voice informing listeners in the furthest villages of County Mayo that they are listening to ‘ the last shots of the Lebanese civil war ’ . |
| 4 | The ships themselves offer a more comfortable ride these days : of the 16 trips I made in blustery March , only one was anything like rough . |
| 5 | God did many things in my life and in the lives of friends that I made in different places . |
| 6 | And of course there 's the fact that any statements I make about general business confidence are price sensitive and could knock the share price . ’ |
| 7 | I was very proud of those she made for outdoor wear , perhaps because they were different ; they were generally made from offcuts of the various dress lengths being made up into ladies ' costumes . |
| 8 | Even Denise had aged a little , got heavy and puffy in her thirties , from the big cooked dinners she made for hungry Keith . |
| 9 | ‘ You could put right the mistake you made by promising to be my wife in six years ’ time ! ’ |
| 10 | What use do you make of written work when it has been marked ? |
| 11 | What points do you make about young ? |
| 12 | She is also well known locally for the soft toys she makes for various charities . |
| 13 | The report I commissioned on you makes for interesting reading . |
| 14 | With small token charges of explosives in our pockets we made for distant roads , railways and bridges , sinking up to our knees in bogs and wading through the icy waters of fast-running burns . |
| 15 | ‘ This is in reply to a request we made of Greek Intelligence for as exhaustive a list as they could supply of all places where Andropulos is known either to do business or have contacts . |
| 16 | It ignores the obvious discriminations which we make between similar treatment of different species within the animal kingdom . |
| 17 | Because of the odd separations we make between qualitative and quantitative aspects of planning , enrolments tend to be regarded as the purview of the educational administrator . |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman has not grasped the fact that any progress that we make on improving animal welfare in Europe has to be on a Europeanwide basis . |
| 19 | Then what are we to make of current events at Whitby and Scarborough ? |
| 20 | But now they 've got got the additional worry of discovering that the applications they made to various universities and polytechnics back in October may never have been sent . |
| 21 | The Direct Mail Information Service 's 1992 trends survey has found 82 per cent of customers are satisfied with the last transaction they made by direct mail , six per cent more than last year . |
| 22 | The detailed analyses they make of unconscious significations can stop them from considering any other kind of explanation . |
| 23 | The health of individuals is affected not only by the use they make of medical services but by their working conditions , housing , diet , leisure-time activities , and so on . |
| 24 | The researchers will meet with current historians to find out what use they make of past records with the aim of anticipating the requirements of future historians . |
| 25 | At one level , policemen and women claim that they pursue all crime with equal vigour , which on the whole is true , but this formal discourse conceals the evaluations they make of different crimes . |
| 26 | The authors were asked to review the current state of the art in their fields with particular reference to the likely requirements of the future policy issues agenda in terms of the demands that they make on geographic information management . |
| 27 | There are important differences between the chapters in this part both in the nature of the demands that they make on geographic information and also in the relative importance that is attached to geographic criteria as against other issues by planners and decision-makers in these fields . |
| 28 | Primary elections are very popular with the television industry ; they make for good visuals , and they allow producers to focus ad infinitum on personalities rather than getting bogged down in the boring complexities of issues . |
| 29 | In May 1940 , the RCM general secretary wrote to the Chief Rabbi , pointing out ‘ that our Regional Committees are autonomous and neither they nor the committees under them like interference in the arrangements they make for religious instruction ’ . |
| 30 | The problem with them , however , is that it is not always clear what predictions they make for particular paradigms ( Alba & Hasher , 1983 ; Brewer & Nakamura , 1984 ) . |