Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that roads and pavements are often too busy , noisy or polluted to make walking a pleasant alternative to driving . |
| 2 | It must also be satisfied that the adopter has not received nor agreed to receive , and that no person has made or given or agreed to make or give to the adopter , any payment in consideration of the adoption , except such as the court may sanction . |
| 3 | When Bovet won the prize it was noted that he had never taken out a patent in his own name or sought to make a penny from the commercial expoitation of his research . |
| 4 | The justices either failed to make any determination in accordance with section 25(3) or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) he was likely to abscond from any other description of accommodation ( part of the criteria under section 25(1) ( a ) ( i ) of the Act ; ( ii ) if he absconded , he would be likely to suffer significant harm ; ( b ) alternatively , any such findings as were made were not supported by the evidence before the justices . |
| 5 | The justices either failed to make any determination or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
| 6 | ‘ The justices however failed to make any determination , or failed to make any finding or state any reasons for finding as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
| 7 | Richard Jones missed or failed to make th most of a couple . |
| 8 | I have n't come reluctantly or tried to make excuses . |
| 9 | The conversion of fractions to decimals is a requirement for effective use of the calculator , and a further calculator question about the wages received for a 37½ hour week produced evidence that a number of pupils worked out the wages for a 37 hour week using the calculator and then made , or tried to make , a pencil and paper calculation for the remaining half hour 's money . |
| 10 | When the eidetic image of the room was fully and accurately frozen inside of me , I made my move , or tried to make my move , because nothing happened . |
| 11 | Also called virgin or extra virgin , according to acidity Oils , olive , grapeseed , sesame etc p29/ Culinary oils with characteristic flavours for various culinary uses Olives p42/ The fruits of the olive tree , eaten when ripe or crushed to make olive oil Olives , Marinated Green p44 Organic Foods p85/ Foods produced without the use of chemical at any stage , either to fertilise the land or to treat the crops or the food Oriental Beef p54 Osso Bucco p58 |
| 12 | Now the 27 year-old sculptor specialises In beautifully complex human and animal forms , steeped in classical influences and burnished or weathered to make them look as if they have several lifetimes of history behind them . |
| 13 | That meant one of two things — the remaining houses were either being patched up or demolished to make way for pre-fabs . |
| 14 | One major Maxwell company , Mirror Group Newspapers ( MGN ) , had agreed to meet liabilities towards its 15,000 pensioners and employee members , but the position of pensioners in other Maxwell concerns was not secure ; a number of these concerns had made no payments , or had made only reduced payments , to pensioners in recent months . |
| 15 | Many schools declined to take part in the survey , however , for a variety of reasons : pressure of work , involvement in too many recent research projects and in some cases because , despite the LEA schedule , they had either not yet started on their review or had made only minimal progress . |
| 16 | Perhaps it 's a one-off you made yourself or had made for you , or maybe you run up spectacular gowns as a matter of course . |
| 17 | Mobuto had never once referred to his father by name or attempted to make any apology for the abhorrent crimes that had been committed under his regime . |
| 18 | Does it sound trivial or over-rarefied to make so much of such small points ? |
| 19 | Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions . |
| 20 | Her mouth was opening and closing , spewing words at him that failed to make any contact in his mind . |
| 21 | And a performance that helped make him the Queen Mum 's favourite . |
| 22 | Appeared in 22 Carry Ons , including Carry On With The Same Old Camp Jokes That Helped Make Gay People A Hated Minority . |
| 23 | Dust lay thickly over the cracked flagstone floor and only when I ascended a dangerous staircase did I find a solitary reminder of the business that helped to make the Damianis one of the richest Arab families in Jaffa . |
| 24 | The couple also got £2,000 cash that helped to make their wedding reception a feast to remember . |
| 25 | Instead of making directly for it , I followed a track that seemed to make for the Foulness road , about half a mile beyond the village or hamlet marked as Crabtree Wick . |
| 26 | So the very feature of our own legal practice that seemed to make conventionalism a good interpretation of legal practice — the deep , constant concern judges and lawyers show about the " correct " reading of statutes and precedents in hard cases actually an embarrassment to that conception . |
| 27 | If ever there was anything that looked made up of outsides , it was a plane flying . |
| 28 | Among the shields are those of Bohemia , Moravia , Silesia and Upper and Lower Lusatia , the states that went to make up the lands of Bohemia . |
| 29 | They inherited very considerable R&T resources from the four major ICI divisions that went to make up C&P . |
| 30 | Explain that this is because ice takes up more space than the water that froze to make it . |