Example sentences of "[pers pn] make the " in BNC.

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1 Too often in the past , he said , politicians had been bamboozled by specialists into believing that the problems were so great that the answer was to set up bodies like the UGC and let them make the decisions .
2 But there 's nothing wrong with challenging people on a personal level and letting them make the choices … ’
3 However fast and unpredictable the changes to their world , this resourcefulness will help them make the best of it .
4 Our aim is to help them make the right purchase by giving them all the information they need .
5 But too much mist obscures the question what it is like to be a chimp for even the best-meaning efforts to make them make the best of meaning .
6 And the council 's housing department is asking tenants thinking of moving on to help them make the most of the housing stock by giving early notice when they intend to leave .
7 I now thank that friend who first put the direct question to me and made me make the decision .
8 But let me make the point here that separatism and man-hating are different things .
9 ‘ You can come through to the kitchen and help me make the tea , ’ Miss Honey said , and she led the way along the tunnel into the kitchen — that is if you could call it a kitchen .
10 ‘ Fred lets me make the decisions , an' it was my idea ter sort this back room out . ’
11 ‘ You 'll let me make the cakes ? ’
12 Yet a combination of things , active marketing by both the gallery and the artist herself , made me make the journey to Watermans .
13 Let me make the position absolutely clear to the House .
14 ‘ Then I 'll let you make the decisions that affect all nomes ’ bodies , ’ said Gurder , his voice just one step away from being threatening , ‘ and you 'll let me make the decisions that affect all nomes ’ souls .
15 Accusations that have some truth to them make the most watertight defences of all .
16 It is natural to ask … why it is that countries have Constitutions , why most of them make the Constitution superior to the ordinary law , and , further , why Britain , at any rate , has no Constitution , in this sense , at all .
17 Never before had there been as many as nine of his members in a Masters field and every one of them made the cut .
18 Thirty of them made the trip to Gulfstream Park and the best they could manage was one Irish and one French third place , both well beaten .
19 But the flow of immigrants went on , with very little space to receive the new settlers , so in 1628 some of them made the easy move from St. Kitts to Nevis , and a couple of years later made a slightly longer move and occupied the islands of Antigua and Monserrat , laying the foundations of English settlement in the Leeward Islands .
20 She never knew which one of them made the first move , but suddenly , unaccountably , she was in his arms , his hands pressing against her back to draw her closer still .
21 Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team .
22 How do I make the application ?
23 I would try and get people to work as a team together and then when it obviously is n't going to work properly , only then would I make the decision .
24 I asked myself each time , Why ca n't I make the pot boil ?
25 Can I make the point as a country dweller
26 Can I make the point
27 Can I make the letters that will say it ?
28 This , I am assured , is not merely ‘ the most comprehensive lifestyle and financial program one can apply for ’ ( will I make the grade ? ) but is ‘ most distinctive ’ for the ‘ philosophy it represents ’ .
29 May I make the further suggestion that when it is all over on 9 April we get the right hon. Gentleman a new job — a walk-on part in a re-run of ’ Crossroads ’ or as a substitute for Ken Barlow .
30 As a Scottish lawyer , may I make the simple point that the Lord Advocate looked carefully at the question of a prosecution for culpable homicide ?
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