Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] make [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ships themselves offer a more comfortable ride these days : of the 16 trips I made in blustery March , only one was anything like rough . |
| 2 | We could eventually remove from human life all the characteristics which make for human distress — criminality , war-making , and the like . ’ |
| 3 | There is a footnote from the editors : ‘ We now unreservedly withdraw any recommendation we made about this book . ’ |
| 4 | However the demands they make of each student are rigorous and varied . |
| 5 | Of the speeches he made on these occasions we have such various descriptions it is impossible to be sure what he actually said . |
| 6 | One such was an Ajdabiyan municipal policeman , one of the body of men employed to enforce local traffic and marketing regulations , rules about the disposal of garbage — all those minor matters which make for such amenity as the growing towns manage to achieve . |
| 7 | The small tradesmen or shopkeepers who made up most Boards of Guardians throughout the period were unlikely to resist such pressure since their elections to the Boards depended upon the ratepayers . |
| 8 | In his early days with us Hamilton was one of those attacking centre-halves who made for great excitement , supporting his forwards and ever-ready to have a go at goal . |
| 9 | With small token charges of explosives in our pockets we made for distant roads , railways and bridges , sinking up to our knees in bogs and wading through the icy waters of fast-running burns . |
| 10 | At one level , policemen and women claim that they pursue all crime with equal vigour , which on the whole is true , but this formal discourse conceals the evaluations they make of different crimes . |
| 11 | The detailed analyses they make of unconscious significations can stop them from considering any other kind of explanation . |
| 12 | You only have to look back over what 's er happened over the last few years in terms of for example O S Two , Microsoft Windows , a variety of Unix , and you 'll see that technologies will come along and however sound a decision you make at one point in time the market circumstances and potentially mean that what was right for you then not the right . |
| 13 | And of course there 's the fact that any statements I make about general business confidence are price sensitive and could knock the share price . ’ |
| 14 | He also has a collection of Rentokil news letters going back to his early days which made for fascinating reading after dinner . |
| 15 | Bedroom with twin single beds which make into double bed if required . |
| 16 | But now they 've got got the additional worry of discovering that the applications they made to various universities and polytechnics back in October may never have been sent . |
| 17 | I say to my honourable friend as far as the P I A 's concerned he will have an early opportunity er to consider er the prospectus on that which is indeed being published er and I take very seriously the point he makes about adequate monitoring procedures and the need for an audit trail . |
| 18 | The difference between Anderson 's words and deeds here is a telling example of the emptiness of many pompous statements he makes in this scene . |
| 19 | Michael Russell , the party 's vice-convener for publicity , accused Labour of selling out on all the promises it made to Scottish voters at the last election . |
| 20 | Douglas Young reports from the Berlin Film Festival on several exciting discoveries he made among this year 's entries ( and some he wishes he had n't ) |
| 21 | The money we make in this shop goes to erm Save The Children Fund which supports children in countries abroad , particularly in Africa where you 've probably seen pictures on television . |
| 22 | I find it important that the ‘ ceiling ’ of the cave should be reasonably low and the entrance small , for which reason I usually use broken pots which make for smaller caves . |
| 23 | A contemporary noted that the school curriculum was ‘ subordinated to that literary instruction which makes for academic culture , but is of no practical utility , to the classes for whom the local authorities should principally cater ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ This is in reply to a request we made of Greek Intelligence for as exhaustive a list as they could supply of all places where Andropulos is known either to do business or have contacts . |
| 25 | The problem with them , however , is that it is not always clear what predictions they make for particular paradigms ( Alba & Hasher , 1983 ; Brewer & Nakamura , 1984 ) . |
| 26 | But here and throughout there is an illuminating clarity of texture , purity of sound and impeccable intonation which make for satisfying listening . |
| 27 | The first flight you make on any day is really the only one where your judgement is put to the test . |
| 28 | Attitudes towards pain and discomfort influence the use one makes of medical services . |
| 29 | In May 1940 , the RCM general secretary wrote to the Chief Rabbi , pointing out ‘ that our Regional Committees are autonomous and neither they nor the committees under them like interference in the arrangements they make for religious instruction ’ . |
| 30 | None of them is , nor can be , structured as to require that those in charge of enterprises in which people invest their working lives and expectations should account primarily and principally to them for the uses they make of those lives . |