Example sentences of "[vb -s] make [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This will strengthen Coatings drive for success in a market where the current flat demand for wet paint has made competition even more intense .
2 This chapter describes the way that one teacher has made mathematics accessible to 14 and 15 year olds in a special school for pupils described as having ‘ moderate learning difficulties ’ .
3 A critical account of such shifts ( Baldwin , 1985 ) suggests that this has made evaluation of the concept particularly difficult to achieve .
4 The recent 25 KV electrification has made steam movements using ECML junctions like Newcastle and Darlington virtually impossible .
5 When finally he is born , Sarah cries , ‘ God has made laughter for me ’ ( 21.6 ) .
6 Looking at the sweep of the whole narrative from Genesis 1 outwards , we can say that God has made laughter for himself also , and for the whole world .
7 Nicholas Cruz simply drools over the youngster who has made boxing an art form .
8 Nicholas Cruz simply drools over the youngster who has made boxing an art form .
9 Knowledge concerning that enlightenment was what he passed on to his disciples , and this — the positive content of the Four Noble Truths and the teaching of the Middle Way — is what has made Buddhism live down the ages and still today .
10 The photocopier has made reliance on a publisher less necessary than it was , but the future of the material coming from parish musicians will nevertheless be determined by the passage of time and the growing musical literacy of the public .
11 The deeply integrated place of the artefact in constituting culture and human relations has made discussion of it one of the most difficult of all areas to include in abstract academic discourse .
12 My silly wee sister has made Mum a Get Well Quickly card .
13 Long derided as the product of a fevered brain , Docklands has made progress this year , despite backlash from Olympia & York 's £5.8bn worldwide debts .
14 1985 His number work has made progress and he is beginning to add , subtract and divide using HTUs .
15 A student has made education history by becoming the first in the country to pass a new exam .
16 From this and other instances , Stafford Wright concludes that God has made ESP ‘ a part of animal existence ’ .
17 The European Commission has made electricity generation its main target area for reducing oil use .
18 Through Christ , God has made sense of time , and the moment of his ‘ breaking in ’ becomes the moment of discovery , hope and salvation .
19 Established constitutional theory has made sense of the British constitution and British politics in the following way .
20 But canny Stapleton has made transfer dealings which have brought in £600,000 .
21 What then has made debt the single most pressing problem for CAB clients in the late 1980s ?
22 The advent of fourth generation languages ( 4GLs ) has made system development much easier .
23 Looking further ahead , Mr Garnett has made provision for using refillable plastic cartridges of chemical with his device .
24 She may hold the view that she has made provision for every eventuality and is therefore unlikely to experience any difficulties in combining work with parenthood .
25 In an attempt to remedy the problem , the government has made provision for 1,000 additional bail hostel places to be made available by April 1993 .
26 It is that wherever Parliament in an earlier statute has directed its attention to an individual case and has made provision for it unambiguously , there arises a presumption that if in a subsequent statute the legislature lays down a general principle , that general principle is not to be taken as meant to rip up what the legislature had before provided for individually , unless an intention to do so is specially declared .
27 But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action .
28 The National Curriculum , whilst being consistent with the other government sponsored programmes in its instrumental-vocationalist view , has made provision for the arts through music and art as second tier essential subjects with drama mentioned for possible inclusion with art , music and design in a joint arts option for older pupils .
29 ‘ Never has homo faber better understood that he has made history and never has he felt so powerless before history ’ .
30 A female deacon has made history by becoming the first woman to be put in charge of a parish in the Gloucester Diocese .
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