Example sentences of "[noun] to make [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This has enabled authors to make claims and counter claims about the importance of different variables in the absence of any sustained efforts to discover which are directly and which are artefactually related to abuse .
2 It 's becoming the fashion among big clients to make lawyers pitch for their custom .
3 It would give him pleasure to make jokes that were n't funny while he was dressed up in the wedding-dress of a woman he claimed had been murdered also .
4 The manifesto which N C V O produced recently , articulate many of our concerns , and presses the Government and other political practi other political parties to make improvements to respond to your concerns .
5 Even though some expert clauses do not specifically reserve the right for the parties to make submissions or representations to the expert ( see 8.15 ) , it is unlikely that this right will be lost through its omission , because the expert will usually want to receive submissions or representations of some kind to help him understand the issue he has to determine .
6 In one of his most critical speeches since John Major took over from Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister , Sir Edward said it was wrong for parties to make pledges on taxation at elections .
7 In his most critical speech of Mr Major 's administration , Sir Edward said it was wrong for parties to make pledges on taxation at elections .
8 The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order .
9 However , in cases where all technical disputes are referred to an expert for determination , and those where all disputes , technical and non-technical are referred , it is uncommon to find provisions allowing the parties to make representations to the expert .
10 India could develop test-tube fusion cells , using them as a source of neutrons to make weapons grade materials , breaking out of the stranglehold that the USA has held them in since severance of nuclear ties following the Pokran nuclear test in 1974 ; they set to work at once before the US classifies it as secret and corners the world market on the essential materials .
11 However , given the increased powers of delegation to Colleges authorised by the Act , and the effective removal of certain constraints in terms of staffing and budgetary control , Colleges will have more freedom in the future to make adjustments locally to resource levels .
12 Then , half an hour later , he was taken away by the police for the way in which , in his bid to make amends , he had gone through a red light .
13 Russian roulette : Dominic Lieven on the dangers in Gorbachev 's bid to make strikes illegal
14 His apprenticeship took him through various parts of the motor car division until the outbreak of war , when he was transferred to the aviation side to make crankshafts and camshafts for Merlin engines .
15 Thus , both sides have tended to use social scientific research to make statements in general about catholic schools which have been drawn from other countries and , therefore , beyond the cultural confines within which Irish catholic schools exist .
16 The process is simply to find the combination of variables which gave the best fit in the past and then to extrapolate the equation to make predictions .
17 obtaining up-to-date data to make problems closer to real life
18 About 150 police moved in at daylight to make arrests .
19 From Les Amants to Pretty Baby he has often seemed to be using sexual subjects to make films about something else entirely , and in as much as sex and the life force are connected , his two sexiest films remain Viva Maria and Zazie dans Le Metro , which have nothing to do with sex at all .
20 But due to the lack of official interest , it has been left to the Merchant Navy Association to make enquiries about the possible striking of a commemorative award by the Surrey-based firm Award Productions , who have recently attracted attention with their issue of a National Service Medal .
21 Flooring : Tapis D'Avignon 98 per cent wool felt floorcovering in Bois De Rose and Corail colourways , comes in 140 cm widths but can be sewn together to cover larger areas , or bound with linen tape to make rugs .
22 The substance is the power of peoples to make governments , and make their representatives , accede to the popular will and to popular demands .
23 I welcome the moves made so far by my right hon. Friend to encourage manufacturers to make cars more defensible .
24 It says that it has been urging motor manufacturers to make cars more secure since 1961 .
25 The principle of this case lingers on , although Parliament sought to mitigate its harshness by a special provision which enables publishers of unintentional defamation to make amends without incurring heavy damages .
26 There is also a recommendation to make SHAs , the majority of which are single-specialty hospitals and prone to isolation , part of a major hospital complex .
27 You do n't need to have straight hair that touches your shoulders to make waves .
28 When Germany was attacking our vital Atlantic life-line in December 1940 , Wolverton Works were asked by the Admiralty to make Domes S.L. , part of the famous ( ASDIC ) device for detecting the presence of submarines .
29 How can we expect people from developing nations to make sacrifices for the good of mankind , while we continue to squander and pollute ?
30 Tannins , another kind of organic molecule , are used in the oil industry to make muds easier to drill .
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