Example sentences of "of make [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The back of there there used to be one or two people who used to have little outhouses where they used to sort of make things , and my grandfather up the Pleck , he was a good locksmith and he had his shop at the back of the house and he cou he could watch the Walsall races going on , which is now where the Road is , from his workshop before Street was put and any of those and he could stand in his workshop and watch the races . |
2 | And we 're really having to struggle to sort of make ends meet . |
3 | But none of these models or any others that we are aware of make allowance for possible differences in root turnover rates within an ecosystem type , nor are root turnover rates intrinsically linked to soil temperature . |
4 | That expansion is absolute daily proof , I mean it does n't really sort of make sense now what does it mean , number one , number er A one A , the needs a airports and travel . |
5 | Sort of make breakfast in about half an hour , quarter of an hour . |
6 | No , I just thought it would of made Jan 's night like . |
7 | I mean they ai n't sort of I mean what they could force you to do if they really , I mean they would never do that but what they could force you to do or Les to do would be to check with all those people who I 've actually sort of made payments to , to make sure that I have . |
8 | Yeah we did well but erm we should n't have like , you learn by your mistakes , but we we kind of made profit and we should n't of done |
9 | This difference , together with the obliquity , made it necessary on the one hand to excavate to a considerable depth at the bottom and to add a 30 foot embankment of made ground at the top , involving a vast amount of earth moving that , on the face of it seems hardly to have been necessary . |
10 | Three areas of made ground were present on the line of the road , the most significant of these three being the backfilled quarry area at Straiton which resulted from the extraction of the limestone by opencast methods to a maximum depth of 16 metres . |
11 | A second area of made ground was present to the east of Langloan and was thought to be a backfilled clay borrow pit . |
12 | I mean you may not have that much to compare it with , but certainly in my experience , is that January if I took people round the in January , erm , you sort of made excuses for it . |
13 | THE flurry of worry about the absence of women in John Major 's cabinet had the odd effect of making Mrs Thatcher s premiership look almost progressive on women 's issues . |
14 | The Minoans may have learnt the art of making faience , a glaze technique , from the Egyptians in about 2000 BC . |
15 | Pask stonewalled , claiming variously that he had no staff to answer questions , that only one boiler-maker in Britain was capable of making unit boilers for large sets , that they would encounter operational difficulties , that there would be economies to replication of smaller sets , that larger sets were more expensive than small ones , and that station layouts would not accommodate them . |
16 | Since probabilities can be multiplied as well as added , one way of making effects among small probabilities comparable with effects when the probabilities are nearer 0.5 might be to look at ratios rather than differences . |
17 | The difference is explained by more efficient ways of making goods , to a large extent brought about by computers and electronics techniques themselves . |
18 | The fact that he is capable of making discs of superlative quality is also in no doubt , as this stunning new Stravinsky disc strikingly bears out . |
19 | Political chaos was having the effect of making Elisabeth and Daniel take stock and order their time on the island particularly efficiently . |
20 | There was widespread scepticism about such methods of making reformers out of rulers . |
21 | Just before his death in 1966 , Disney was quoted as saying : ‘ I do not believe there are any heights that can not be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true ’ . |
22 | The new subject of International Relations must find the best ways of making leaders aware of the dysfunctional nature of war , or , if it failed in this , appeal directly to the populations concerned . |
23 | That they will also feel more confident of making contracts with local authorities and that any fears they may have might be allayed . |
24 | It is not just a matter of making laws . |
25 | It may be too great a temptation to human frailty , apt to grasp at power , for the same persons who have the power of making laws , to have also in their hands the power to execute them , whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make , and suit the law , both in its making and execution , to their own private advantage . |
26 | All would be lost if the same man , or the same body of chief citizens , or the nobility , or the people , exercised these three powers , that of making laws , that of executing public decisions , and that of judging the crimes or the disputes of private persons . |
27 | The problem is that at the beginning of each new year , we either ignore the tradition of making resolutions , or we try to do too much at once and fail dismally . |
28 | William Webster stands accused of making phone calls on the company 's phones , lending his limo to his wife , taking holidays on official planes and official time . |
29 | And in the particular art of making programmes for preschool children , without being violent or patronising , we have some the finest producers anywhere . |
30 | They suggest that in previous eras BBC Scotland got what was in essence a block grant from London in respect of costs of making programmes for Scotland . |