Example sentences of "[noun sg] to make [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This combination of good marksmanship with poor reasoning ability can only be described as alarming — in particular when so many military duties may be concerned with public order , as in Northern Ireland , where rules of engagement require the soldier to make decisions on the basis of evidence that is often ambiguous .
2 The movie that provoked most debate around rape and its representation before The Accused , was Lamont Johnson 's 1976 film Lipstick , which at least did make some attempt to make connections between the rape and the wider social implications of how society constructs images of women .
3 An implicit attempt to make connections between the dependency metatheory and world systems has been formulated on the basis of an influential conceptual innovation , the new international division of labour ( NIDL ) theory , particularly as elaborated by Frobel et al.
4 Here was the woman I wanted to marry , the woman I thought of every day as I looked beyond the cell to make plans for the future .
5 Another and perhaps even more striking example of the undesirability of the practice can be found in the case of Woolwich Equitable Building Society v. IRC where the finance Act 1985 had included sections enabling the Inland Revenue to make regulations for the payment by building societies of tax on ‘ such sums as may be determined in accordance with regulations ’ and went on to provide that any such regulations might contain ‘ such incidental and consequential provisions as appear to the Board to be appropriate ’ .
6 The GLC was empowered by the Act to make grants to the LTE for any purpose ( section 3 ) and the GLC intended in this way to reimburse the LTE for the revenue lost by the fares reduction and so enable the LTE to balance its books , this being an obligation placed on the LTE ‘ so far as practicable ’ .
7 The pragmatism of field staff places much greater value on what a man can do in the field : his practical knowledge , his capacity to make decisions on the spot , his ability to talk to people .
8 The Solicitors ' Indemnity Rules extend to recognised bodies the requirement to make contributions to the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund ( SIF ) ; in return the Fund will provide cover of £1,000,000 in respect of each and every claim .
9 I simply do not have the manpower to make arrests in the teeth of such concerted action .
10 However , the decision by Council to make cuts in the information budget is not intended in any way to deny the importance of the information system to advice workers in the bureaux , Council sees that the system has reached a very high standard and that this is recognised throughout the entire advice sector .
11 O. J. Braddick ( personal communication ) has pointed out that unlike monocular perspective cues , the differential perspective cues described here could be exploited without the need to make assumptions about the homogeneity or isotropy of the elements making up the surface .
12 It reminded the county council of the need to make improvements in the area around the site and in its dealings with mineral operators in that area .
13 The starting point of this skill-mix review has not been the needs of the community but the need to make cuts in the service . ’
14 He also had the right to make laws with the agreement of the elected assemblies .
15 A new right may be a right to make alterations to the building or sub-let it or ( perhaps on payment of a penalty ) to terminate the lease .
16 Finally , the relatives of patients have no right to make decisions on the patient 's behalf .
17 The USA and USSR deny existing sovereignty claims , make no claims of their own , but reserve the right to make claims in the future .
18 The head teacher must also inform the parents ( or pupil , if aged 18-plus ) of their right to make representations about the exclusion to the LEA and/or governors .
19 Anthropology has played a significant part in illustrating ways in which symbolic use is made of the body to make statements about the condition of society itself ( Mauss 1935 , Douglas 1973 , Blacking 1977 , etc. ) , and hair became an apposite symbolic indicator of the problems the forces of control were faced with at this time .
20 The parties are under no contractual obligation to allow each other to make representations to the auditor before he issues his certificate .
21 One player is chosen to call out , ‘ Horns , horns , bull 's horns , ’ and everyone taps their knees and puts their fingers to their forehead to make horns at the animal 's name .
22 Business leaders accepted , however , that there was scope to make changes to the income tax regime , with the most popular option proving to be an increase in the higher rate of income tax from 40 per cent .
23 The Model Forms of Rent Review Clause say that both the landlord and the tenant will have the chance to make representations to the valuer .
24 Mark Gill was given the chance to make amends before the interval as he converted an equalising penalty awarded after Mike Smith had smothered the ball in the Billingham goal .
25 Here , though , was a mature artist , in her late fifties , who had been dubbed their first Associate Artist and one who was to be given a free run of the Gallery 's Permanent Collection to make transcriptions from the work of the Old Masters .
26 Consumption in leisure and holidaying became increasingly linked to the capacity of the individual consumer to make choices within the market .
27 Women and children were to report at the school in the morning to make arrangements for the care and education of the evacuees .
28 In Armagas Ltd v Mudogas SA [ 1986 ] 2 All ER 385 the House of Lords held that where an agent had no apparent authority to make statements about the subject matter of the contract , a party dealing with the agent could not argue that the agent had apparent authority to make statements about his own authority , nor that the principal was vicariously liable for his fraud .
29 If , however , the authority to make appointments to the board of a nationalised industry did not reside solely in Government , but in part in trade unions as the instruments of industrial democracy , the Secretary of State could no longer be held responsible for the fitness of the board to discharge its functions ; and it would no longer be meaningful for Members to ask Questions , nor possible for Government to answer them constructively .
30 It may be possible to prevent employees misrepresenting the effect of the terms by including a specific provision excluding their authority to make representations about the meaning or effect of the terms .
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