Example sentences of "[noun sg] to make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was one of the items she had shoved beneath the machine 's rubber skirt to make room . |
| 3 | One , in order that the old type of arrangement you know , would no longer prevail , and that subsequently if people were going to have assemblies , part assemblies before they assembled the whole unit , then whole areas would have to be cleared , new benches would have to be built , the departments would have to be totally gone through you know , and all the rubbish cleared out and , and access and egress you know , to every department to make life easier for everybody . |
| 4 | Fostering local talent , he said later , was ‘ all very well in theory , but in practice it will not pay ’ , because the talent to make Leeds City a successful team did not exist locally . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Frenchman ruthlessly forced the young bloods on the couch to make room for him beside her . |
| 7 | He grew sugar beet everywhere and built , on an island in the Thames still known as ‘ Brandy Island ’ , a large distillery to make spirit with the sugar beet . |
| 8 | Atherton and Gatting appear the most vulnerable and there are strong arguments for introducing at least one left-hander in a bid to make life more difficult for leg-spinner Shane Warne . |
| 9 | LESSONS could soon carry on all year at Darlington College of Technology in a bid to make education available to people from different walks of life . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Russian roulette : Dominic Lieven on the dangers in Gorbachev 's bid to make strikes illegal |
| 12 | And he intends to call for loan schemes in a bid to make safety equipment available to everyone . |
| 13 | But Carter , who has offered four top players £100,000 each in a bid to make pool 's profile rival that of snooker , said : ‘ I know there was a bit of bother . |
| 14 | The room was still in the mess in which the incident squad had left it , the desks pushed together to serve as mortuary slabs and the movable screens stacked to one side to make way for the meat sacks being carried out . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The tendency for current research to make use of multi-disciplinary approaches is increasing , although theses themselves tend to concentrate on smaller units of research . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Meanwhile David Gilford left a star-studded field in the Lancia Martini Italian Open trailing in his wake and then spoke of his burning ambition to make Europe 's Ryder Cup team against America at The Belfry in September . |
| 20 | Mr Kinnock said the choice on polling day was between a Tory Party that , after 13 years in power , had proved beyond doubt it had no ambition to make Britain better and no conscience to make Britain worse , or a Labour Party with active policies to pull the country out of recession and build a lasting recovery . |
| 21 | Mr Kinnock said the choice on polling day was between a Tory Party that , after 13 years in power , had proved beyond doubt it had no ambition to make Britain better and no conscience to make Britain worse , or a Labour Party with active policies to pull the country out of recession and build a lasting recovery . |
| 22 | About 150 police moved in at daylight to make arrests . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Trams , however , were taken off the streets of London , in 1935 , and were replaced by trolley-buses — vehicles able to run on electric power by having two arms stretching above their roof to make contact with a pair of overhead cables , instead of the single arm of the tram and the metal rails set in the carriageway of the road along which their route was arranged . |
| 25 | Soon we 'll bring you an Aran sweater to make use of these and other raised patterns . |
| 26 | In 1256 Henry III granted by charter to the burgesses of Scarborough that ‘ no forester may enter the borough to make attachment for trespasses within the Forest [ of Scalby ] ’ and in 1348 Edward III made a similar concession to the burgesses of Penrith for Inglewood Forest . |
| 27 | I want to argue , however , readers use their knowledge of reading as a socially differentiated practice to make sense of texts . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ( 10 ) Throughout Stages 1 and 2 , DCSLs may be involved in advising schools , librarians , or library committees on practical matters , from suggesting trends in library layout ( for schools relocating or refurbishing their libraries in anticipation of , or as a result of , receiving a project grant ) to advising on precise requirements of order forms , the need to " weed " old stock to make space for the new acquisitions , and the desirability or updating or devising a new catalogue . |
| 30 | 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 . |