Example sentences of "[conj] make [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can isolate a section of the design and repeat it within the grid area , or make repeats of the whole design . |
| 2 | If the manager lacks the chance to engage in a fully collegial approach , if he or she can only find or make time for the essential step of ingesting or thinking new ideas in an atmosphere of enforced professional seclusion , does this obscure his or her clarity of mind ? |
| 3 | The firm that made carpets in the old factory in the early nineteenth century went bankrupt , but the industry was revived later . |
| 4 | But there are a number of crime novels that make use of the immediate past to excellent effect ( Gladys Mitchell 's Late , Late in the Evening is one ) , and if the root causes of today 's events are something that set your imagination bubbling then perhaps this is the sort of book you would be best to write . |
| 5 | Only by ignoring the procedural context can the expositor present criminal law in a way that makes nonsense of the sophisticated doctrine of crimes of specific intent . |
| 6 | It is this quality which has moved writers to describe her work as mythic : she speaks for us all through an interpretation of her personal experience that makes use of the universal image of the naked human body . |
| 7 | So why do n't you both get off prime time telly immediately and make way for the new generation ? |
| 8 | So why do n't you both get off prime time telly immediately and make way for the new generation ? |
| 9 | So why do n't you both get off prime time telly immediately and make way for the new generation ? |
| 10 | They meet , and make plans for the next day . |
| 11 | The Consortium is to review its work of delivering food into southern Sudan and make plans for the next nine months . |
| 12 | Resist the temptation to climb onto the ledge , for this is one of those red herrings which prove difficult to retreat from , and make haste with the short traverse , after which a few moves on rounded layaways gain the surprisingly airy belay . |
| 13 | At Beckford , on the southern slopes of Bredon Hill , you can visit Beckford Silk Centre and view the processes involved in the dyeing and printing of their unusual silks , and make purchases at the adjacent store . |
| 14 | BGS 's geomagnetic observatories record variations in the earth 's magnetic field and make forecasts of the likely onset of significant disturbances . |
| 15 | She urged others to ‘ spend some of their tyme in Journeys to visit their native Land , and be curious to inform themselves and make observations of the pleasant prospects , good buildings , different produces and manufactures of each place ’ . |
| 16 | For individuals , it took immense determination , on the part of an Ada Nield Chew or Hannah Mitchell , for example , to change the pattern of their lives and make time for the political work they held dear . |
| 17 | Here and there they pick up and make use of the old common balks in the former open fields , which must have been the usual way of proceeding from one village to another in open-field country , but for the most part they are drawn straight across the old furlongs and strips regardless of all considerations but that of directness . |
| 18 | Let us try another tack in our quest for a definition of complexity , and make use of the mathematical idea of probability . |
| 19 | She was able to light the gas and make tea in the big brown family teapot . |
| 20 | Using the back of a knife , score a brick pattern into the sides of the towers and make indentations for the cross-shaped windows . |
| 21 | The decisions on how much to spend , on what , and where , are made in Congress itself , through the mosaic of committees and subcommittees of the Senate and the House of Representatives which both legislate for and make appropriations to the particular programmes operated by the more than 30 separate departments of the Federal state apparatus . |
| 22 | It had never proved satisfactory , and as she grew older she was beginning to recognise and make sense of the repeating pattern , like someone unrolling a flamboyant wallpaper . |
| 23 | Anyone who has made the mistake of parking at harvest-time under the trees which line the Place Drouet d'Erlon in Reims , will realise that most of Champagne 's bird life return each night to this one street to rest and make room for the following day 's gorging of grapes . |
| 24 | They wanted to recover a wider , more comprehensive vision of the church , one which could include and make room for the different forms in which the church had appeared through history , and in this way to overcome the deeply entrenched divisions between the separated confessions and denominations . |
| 25 | In the absence of more sophisticated software , and taking account of the desirability of direct client involvement , it was decided to try and make use of the same programme for record-keeping and analysis . |
| 26 | Arran himself had joined Beaton and the dowager at the end of 1544 , when they ‘ promised and made bond to the French ambassador , that the French king shall have the young queen , to marry where he list … and also that they shall at the spring of the year , send both the young queen and the old ( Mary of Guise ) into France ’ . |
| 27 | and made maps of the silenced mineworkings . |
| 28 | The Democratic candidate made a clean sweep of the states in New England ( the first time since 1964 ) and made inroads into the southern states which in recent years had been solidly Republican . |
| 29 | This evaluation was directed towards the educational process and made use of the psychometric approach . |
| 30 | The outbreak of the pacific War meant extension of fighting to a whole new area and made resolution of the Chinese impasse that much harder . |