Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals .
2 Although I have fundamental disagreements with the Minister on many issues , I acknowledge that he made many concessions to the logical arguments of hon. Members from the three Opposition parties involved .
3 I do n't know if it makes any difference , but it was n't planned .
4 There 's a file of that , of course , but I make it up from my working diary , and nobody will know if I make some extracts from the diary . "
5 Part of the problem with encouraging girls to take ‘ useful ’ subjects is that we do not know whether it makes any difference to the kinds of jobs they eventually do ; and whether , indeed , these jobs would still be highly rated if women did them .
6 I do n't know whether it makes any difference for the price you will get in the land , for the land , from a tenant , if you restrict his rights to use it .
7 The Minister does not know the figures , but I shall tell him what farmers in Orkney found when they made simple inquiries .
8 In order to recast the problem , however , we need a deeper understanding of the divide between the two approaches , and must enquire why many individualists believe their view to be a decisive refutation of holism , while holists deny that it makes any headway at all .
9 We must ensure that it makes proper progress through the House , receives proper scrutiny and is on the statute book before any rude interruptions .
10 It is a modest mark of our gratitude to those with gifts and skills of writing that we make this increase to the Public Lending Right … ’
11 What happens when he makes another hole ?
12 trembling when he made that speech when he remember when he , remember when you , you were n't there , no you were n't there he was shaking like a leaf .
13 As a final point about the root definition , it is sometimes useful to express it as a statement to see if it makes reasonable sense , and to double-check that all the CATWOE factors have been considered .
14 Although not all doctors would agree that restless legs are attributable to caffeine , anyone suffering this condition should try avoiding caffeine for a while to see if it makes any difference .
15 We 've got attendance I was going to suggest that we made that attendance stroke punctuality
16 There is no evidence to suggest that they made substantial wartime gains in terms of occupational pension entitlements .
17 His chart of appearances shows that he made full appearances for two seasons after joining us and only a broken collar-bone prevented him from making an even more impressive contribution towards our promotion to Division One in 1969–70 .
18 So first and foremost let everyone see that you make common cause with the common people .
19 ‘ I ca n't see that it makes any difference .
20 ‘ We always boasted that we made 29 films with one script — now we have made 30 , ’ laughs Peter , 78 .
21 Its yellow eyes were looking at me ; its mouth opened and it made strange sounds at me .
22 he should have known or whoever organized the fair should have known so really it does n't work unless you make one person responsible for that job .
23 But Raff speculates that it makes more sense that all cells are suicidal : to survive they have to be constantly reminded by signals from the body that they are loved and cherished .
24 From my discussions with British Rail , I know that it made specific proposals for the diversion of at least four of the crossings and that the Ramblers Association objected to them all .
25 We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going .
26 They will sink unless they make positive moves to arrest the slide .
27 In the course of doing so money will have to be spent on cleaning up the Six ( and , no doubt , eventually , the Soviet Union , too ) to ensure that they make respectable cohabitants of the new Europe which various leaders from Gorbachev to Delors to François Mitterrand have envisaged .
28 But it 's not only Trodd and other producers who believe that what makes good work in a collaborative art is the challenge of having to justify decisions to your colleagues , and having colleagues who are not afraid to make those challenges .
29 It seems that it makes more sense to the majority of people if we tell you how much faster ( or slower ) than a common reference machine the test machine is .
30 In practice — I doubt if it makes much difference .
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