Example sentences of "[verb] to make [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |
| 2 | I wonder if he could tell us whether he is prepared to amend the legislation in this fashion , and perhaps tell the House exactly what other amendments he needs to make in order to take account of changing circumstances . |
| 3 | That is , the retailer can decide how much profit he wants to make on an item ( see page 145 ) . |
| 4 | In deciding how much profit he wants to make on each item , and how much to mark up his prices , the retailer needs to consider many of the factors we looked at in Section 7 — the socioeconomics of the area , the needs of the typical customer , the competition , and so on . |
| 5 | Any more points anybody wants to make on the demographic aspects ? |
| 6 | The next day Neville Chamberlain called and rehearsed with him the defence which Hoare proposed to make to the House of Commons on Thursday , the 19th . |
| 7 | But if that is our conclusion , then we miss perhaps the most profound contribution this story has to make to theology and to faith . |
| 8 | If the confrontation between Nazareth and Rome looks like it 's becoming unproductive , the teacher can come out of role and ask the children to reflect on what has been happening — perhaps through discussion , perhaps through a short piece of writing ( a diary entry , a letter to a friend , a sketch representing how the townspeople feel about the power relationship , or — shifting the perspective — the report that the Roman has to make to his commanding officer ) . |
| 9 | This is because while they may recognise the contribution everyone has to make in improving the nation 's health — there is still not a mechanism for involving the different groups , agencies and local communities . |
| 10 | it 's an enormous adaptation that the baby has to make from being cocooned inside its mum to actually living outside , it has a whole host of new things to do , it 's got ta breath , it 's got ta eat it 's erm , it 's excretory system has got to work , bowels and bladder , it 's got to control its own temperature . |
| 11 | They both accounted for this outcome in terms of the rigidity of the block contracts they had been recommended to make by the regional health authority . |
| 12 | Unlike fresh water plumbing , which is covered by the water bye-laws , the drainage system is covered by Building Regulations , which are administered by the Building Control Officer at your local authority and you must provide details of material alterations or additions that you propose to make to the drainage system of your house . |
| 13 | Scathach , Tallis learned , had rejected the advances she had felt impelled to make to him . |
| 14 | One of the many caveats I want to make about these still-experimental calculations is that they are not typical at all socio-economic levels . |
| 15 | I would appreciate any comments you want to make about the campaign and Media Action and your final evaluation of the programme . |
| 16 | There is one additional point we want to make about research which has to do with its collective and temporal character . |
| 17 | I mean , for me personally I think there 's actually a decision that if I ca n't get over the full unbiased impression that I want to make about the whole story , I 've got to make a decision whether I 'm going to talk to you at all . |
| 18 | One of the points I want to make to Mr Silver in person : - ) ) ) |
| 19 | The point we want to make for immediate purposes has to do with the way in which methodological problems arise from particular conceptions of the " order of things " . |
| 20 | The particular songs of his which affect me have helped me to understand what I ultimately want to make of my music , and what I 'm failing to make of my music . |
| 21 | ( i ) for the use you want to make of it ; |
| 22 | The kind of films I want to make in the future would be totally gay in sensibility , whatever that might mean , but totally about heterosexuals and aiming to seduce the general population . ’ |
| 23 | Now , the final point I want to make in this little section , and I think Liz is going to help me make this point , and that is that one of your problems , which is not a big problem compared with some organizations , is you 've got to take what you 're doing , and repackage it in such way that it is of interest to ordinary people . |
| 24 | The soldier cell is programmed to make up 1000s of new HIV particles . |
| 25 | As far as this representative model is concerned procedural entitlements are viewed in purely instrumental terms , according to the contribution they may be expected to make to the accuracy of the underlying substantive policy judgments , and since no one has a right to a particular policy outcome , no one has aright either to any particular form of decision-making process . |
| 26 | In essence each region or district gets its share of the total amount of funds available on the basis of the size of the population served , weighted to take account of the use different sections of that population can be expected to make of the service . |
| 27 | A further major ‘ saving ’ in the scheme has been achieved by increasing the contributions that non-dependants are expected to make towards their housing costs . |
| 28 | It is a judgment about moral limits and one which reasonable adults can properly be expected to make in a democratic community . |
| 29 | It feels to Alice that motherhood means overturning ‘ almost all the marital , housing , professional and personal progress I was expected to make in my 20s . |
| 30 | However , we wish to discuss and agree any amendments that you may seek to make to the contract in advance of you submitting your final binding offer . |