Example sentences of "[subord] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The butcher has better things to do than make journey upon journey , until we are ready for him . ’ |
| 2 | As part of a sweeping agreement , Mr Jackson will do more than make music for Sony ; he will also run his own record label , Nation Records , under the auspices of a new media company , the Jackson Entertainment Complex , a 50–50 joint venture with Sony Software . |
| 3 | It 's better that they understand that than make demands that are n't going to be met . ’ |
| 4 | Rather than make changes to aerodynamic efficiency to reduce speeds , why not go the whole hog and kill two birds with one stone ? |
| 5 | The CBI rejects warnings that companies will hide behind the new anti-hacking laws , rather than make efforts to keep intruders out in the first place . |
| 6 | Some of the younger , more ‘ liberated ’ men did admit that women sometimes wanted to have sex rather than make love , but this was a fairly rare occurrence . |
| 7 | Ask rather than make assumptions . |
| 8 | The plan to pay all 25 benefits from the same office — rather than make claimants chase about between different centres -was announced by Social Services Secretary Peter Lilley . |
| 9 | Many firms now buy in rather than make components themselves , and overcome the problems of controlling quality and delivery by forming very close relationships with suppliers sometimes in return for single-supplier status . |
| 10 | The district was determined to get action on long-standing problems , for example , reducing waiting times in certain specialities , or making clinicians travel to patients for outpatient clinics at a peripheral community hospital , rather than make patients travel to the DGH . |
| 11 | So pray for him as much as you talk to him ; raise questions rather than make statements ; use the rapier and not the sledgehammer ; care for him rather than judge him . |
| 12 | A common tendency , reflecting perhaps a consciousness of the taboo on didacticism which has been such a strong feature of recent primary education , was for some teachers to ask questions rather than make statements or give instructions . |
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| 14 | But , although making claims for Reason less ambitious than those of the seventeenth century , it still sets a problem of how causal powers can be known to exist . |
| 15 | Although making bespoke CDs with WORM ( Write Once Read Many ) or erasable optical disc systems is likely to remain expensive for some years to come , libraries might well be able to make use of very large magnetic storage systems such as the newly emerging ultra-high capacity hard discs . |
| 16 | Yet , although making war was a fairly routine element in the life of an active nobleman , it was very rare indeed that one was killed ; partly because , in the face of danger , a noble could don his expensive and effective armour , his helmet and coat of mail ; and partly because his opponents did not try to kill him — if he should be so unfortunate as to be at their mercy they preferred to capture him and ransom him . |
| 17 | As an illustration , he notes that despite the many differences between industrial relations under communist systems in certain countries such as the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia , and those under the capitalist system in Britain , the emergence of the shopfloor representative in the workplace as a crucial role-player is common to all , albeit making representations about different issues . |
| 18 | Even with free plutonium , MOX is unlikely to be cheaper than making uranium fuel from scratch unless uranium prices soar . |
| 19 | Makarenko went further than making fun of educational inspectors . |
| 20 | ‘ I think I like it even more than … than making love normally . ’ |
| 21 | Now why did he call it that , rather than making love ? |
| 22 | Indeed , so long as total pleasure just outweighs total pain an ever increasing population is likely to be a more effective way of increasing happiness than making life better for each individual . |
| 23 | Carey may be contested , as the Times , the Institute of Directors , Nicholas Fairbairn MP et al have been quick to attempt , but there is surely nothing curious in the head of a Christian church saying there are matters of greater moral significance than making money — unless by curious is meant the fact that Carey is head of a Christian church that also happens to be the established church of the realm . |
| 24 | We really believe in what we 're doing , we believe it has a meaning other than making money or that it 's a cool showbiz job . |
| 25 | He feels that the church should be helping people overcome problems rather than making money through showing the church to tourists or buying paintings . |
| 26 | wrong anyway in that er I 'll say it 's the er early on it in the report Good defines what he determines a prus trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively orb enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund er is against that duty in the first place , but it to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty which I will say stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 27 | ‘ Ca n't you think about anything else other than making money ? ’ he growled . |
| 28 | Oh , I 'd say it is w wrong anyway in that er I say it 's the it 's early er on it in the report Good defines what he determines a trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively ought enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund then it is against that duty in the first place , but it 's to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty saying stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 29 | In the centre and north , and most especially in the north , the new rulers were communes of merchants , men with a vested interest in expanding the local economy , and more concerned with making money than making war . |
| 30 | Peace and truth began to seem more important than making war or making money . |