Example sentences of "[adv] make a [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So with your pennies and her pennies I think we should all make a lot of money for Save The Children , do n't you ? |
| 2 | I thought I 'd better make a cup of coffee . |
| 3 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 4 | Eyes of darkest brown , ’ he continued softly , but he did n't sound as though he were amused , or teasing — rather as though he was merely making a statement of fact , which she found slightly disconcerting . |
| 5 | You wired them together to make a kind of pyramid . |
| 6 | and erm , he 's got in the , in the fabric one he 's got double doors and all the rolls of carpet and erm , he 's got a table in there and obviously to make a cup of tea , got a couple of beds in there cos he 's sold them and it 's like a big warehouse and erm all around there there 's a big concreted area , you know , and er all these units and that 's where we , we reckon it is . |
| 7 | The only difference her success made was that she thought her an incompetent fool who was lucky enough to make a bit of money . ’ |
| 8 | This would explain Gandhi 's claim that one should not make a fetish of non-violence . |
| 9 | But , even if the All Blacks are subconsciously tempted to relegate the Irish to an after-thought , it might not make a bit of difference . |
| 10 | The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas |
| 11 | Does it not make a lot of sense because it rings true to our experience ? |
| 12 | A lot is made of high and low cholesterol foods , especially in the USA , but cutting back on foods which are high in cholesterol does not make a lot of difference to blood cholesterol concentrations . |
| 13 | However , the temperature today at the base of the Cytherean exosphere rarely exceeds about 300 K , which is too low for the thermal escape of very much hydrogen even over 4600 Ma , and chemical escape might not make a lot of difference . |
| 14 | Indeed , as Paul Du Noyer noted in NME , it might not make a sausage of difference to your diet but it 's guaranteed to leave a feeling of guilt in your head as you tuck into that rump steak . |
| 15 | Madam Chairman if I may just make a comment of concern that information was not , on this point was not forthcoming to the county councillors of that area perhaps to make er give them an opportunity to make comment prior to you so you could make this delegated action . |
| 16 | Every muscle in his body had ached as if stretched to its limit , but it had not made a scrap of difference to his height . |
| 17 | Archaeologists from Newcastle University have already made a number of test excavations at the site of the extension and found nothing of historical value . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've just made a pot of tea . ’ |
| 19 | But there are all sorts of reasons why we do n't get that news , one guy said well if we wanted to do it I know if we wanted to make the news that , according to the level of human suffering we 'd start off with Ethiopia then we 'd have the Kurdish problem and you know just made a living of disaster areas around the world , he said we might of finished up with a light hearted discussion on the poll tax , you know as the , as the light , the lightener at the end of the news if you like , and our , what news we receive here depends on our perception of the world , but mainly it 's the other way round our perception of the world is , is what , you know what it , or rather the news that we get actually manufactures our perception of the world . |
| 20 | Still not making a lot of impression on this guy . |
| 21 | Yet England are short of a cover for Stevens — and that is some shortage — so Parker 's appearance tonight makes a bit of sense . |
| 22 | The growth of the middle classes as industrialization became , got under way , men , more men earned their money , so instead of having two classes , the working class and the upper class who spent their lives in leisure , in idleness , you got another class of people who had to earn their living , but who still made a lot of money . |
| 23 | They usually make a sort of ear sound if they 've got I mean |
| 24 | ‘ You can still make a bit of money and enjoy yourself without ripping people off . |
| 25 | And I always make a point of doing as I please . |
| 26 | There was a book called The Young Visitors that once made a lot of money . ’ |
| 27 | I 've always made a point of borrowing money from women early in the relationship so as to give them a hold over me . |
| 28 | That congress is an insult it 's like making a victim of crime pay compensation to the muggers . |
| 29 | I checked everything in at the left-luggage office in Liverpool Street station , and then went off to make a couple of telephone calls . |
| 30 | He also made a pot of tea . |