Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] make [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criticism and poetics both constrict the text by making it conform to a meaning or to a model . |
| 2 | Not just smear the KGB by making them seem callously careless in their shooting . |
| 3 | The possibilities for recasting the UK accounts are being examined , with the intention of making them reflect the real resource use , or output contribution , of the public sector , rather than simply its share of expenditure . |
| 4 | However natural it is , it still has the effect of making me cry when I catch sight of myself and nurses have visibly cringed upon seeing them . |
| 5 | Koeman should have been sent off for a deliberate foul on Platt ( who actually got 5.9 for the skill in making it look much worse ) . |
| 6 | The erm much , given much more dominance in the picture by making it stand right up above the horizon . |
| 7 | My own tears , hot noisy gulping that burns and blotches , that neither you nor any of the women in the group is going to offer to staunch , tears of anger for myself and all of us , anger with the women in the group for making me face up to what I 'm doing to you , for making me want to take out those dusty bundles of old stories from where they 've lain for my lifetime tied up with pink ribbon and reread them and throw them away . |
| 8 | That is the difference between switching on and switching off , and switching on is an absolutely essential ingredient to the art of making it happen . |
| 9 | ‘ Simple enough , ’ Finley comments , ‘ yet the scheme was unique and the difficulties in making it work are nearly unimaginable today . ’ |
| 10 | You curve the surface by making it go down into a hollow . |
| 11 | ‘ Wait , James — what is the use of making him pretend to powers ? ’ |
| 12 | The first point we must consider then is simply the mechanics of making it work . |
| 13 | It was decided not to try to smuggle Hess out on the courier run , although the idea of making him do a parachute drop at his age seemed risky and wrong-headed to the Englishman , if not malicious . |
| 14 | His reappearance in 2010 decisively resolves this , at the cost of making him come on like a Californian religious freak about ‘ something wonderful ’ . |
| 15 | There was the hope that modest constitutional change might attach the middle classes to the established institutions of the country by making them consider the House of Commons as an ultimate tribunal where their grievances could be discussed and remedied . |
| 16 | Having produced the fake , there is then the problem of making it look old . |
| 17 | Once others are brought in and contribute their money or support to a project , they also have a stake in making it work . |
| 18 | It was the sort of thing she 'd do , thinking it wrong to punish a boy by making him go hungry . |
| 19 | In the longer term , is there a risk that in focusing attention on such ‘ hard core ’ racist groups there is a danger of making them seem glamorous ? |
| 20 | The free-kick from Cruz that beat Italy was one , and the run and cross from Jorginho which led to Careca heading the winner in Rotterdam another , but in these games Brazil have impressed as a team without making you want to leap out of your seat as Pele once did . |
| 21 | So a policy of making them pay , sit down and shut up at football matches will not make any difference . |
| 22 | The majority were in rural areas and the traffic densities were so low that there was no prospect of making them pay . |
| 23 | Thus , for example , while many inmates may sleep in worse conditions outside , this is no argument for making them sleep on concrete if it is not excessively expensive to provide them with cots or hammocks . |
| 24 | For this scene , Rob Bottin used the following : a false floor ; a three-section fibreglass model of his hand , able to be blown apart by compressed air , for safety ; a polyfoam right arm attached with velcro ; a full torso and head puppet , minus the right arm , but with an explosive charge , since it replaced Weller in shot , and with a mechanism for making it sit up . |
| 25 | Altarus has a habit of making us think afresh with almost every release . |
| 26 | It is difficult , as so many failures show , to describe ‘ the values ’ of a society without making them appear more systematic than they are , or ( the reverse danger ) making them appear time-serving and meretricious . |
| 27 | ‘ I think I 've got a way of making it taste a little less foul this year , ’ said Jack Nopps one Christmas . |
| 28 | She had charm , a way of making you feel that you were joining her in some harmless conspiracy . |
| 29 | British rail tested it exhaustively but could find no way of making it fail . |
| 30 | This aircraft is reported to have been shipped to an East Coast workshop where work is currently under way with a view to making it fly again . |