Example sentences of "[adj] make [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of this is to deny that the February 1960 agreement was partly a result of Khrushchev 's ‘ allowing Mikoian to make trouble for the Americans in Cuba ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 156 ) , but it is important to recognise that , whatever political considerations were involved , they were firmly backed up by a favourable set of economic circumstances . |
| 2 | Here , in this dungeon we nicknamed the Pit , we were all free to make fun of the guards , in particular Abu Salim , he of clicking fingers fame . |
| 3 | I should have thought that it was much more sensible to make proposals from the start for both a station and a link . |
| 4 | His hands were very full with arrangements for his attack on Normandy , and there must also have been many discussions about the terms on which he would be willing to make peace with the papacy . |
| 5 | As regards television , it was noted that the broadcasting authorities were not willing to make newsfilm of the incidents outside the Grunwick factory available for party use . |
| 6 | By early April Henry , concerned above all to secure his family settlement , was prepared to make restitution to the Poitevins in order to salvage it . |
| 7 | Likewise , they are prepared to make allowance for the fact that certain scientific facts about the world were not known , or for example that the biological relation of woman to man was misunderstood . |
| 8 | Some were even prepared to make allowances for the fact that Peter had been an appallingly neglectful father . |
| 9 | They put little faith in the sincerity of the Communists but were prepared to make concessions in the interests of " Unity against Fascism " . |
| 10 | All verderers are in future to make answer before the justices in eyre by a single roll of the vert and venison , and are not to have , each one for himself , rolls of the different bailiwicks for production before the Justices . |
| 11 | It is perhaps too early to make judgements about the meaningfulness of this sequence of events . |
| 12 | Even in better light , it would have been hard to make sense of the look on the stranger 's face , torn between agitation and disgust . |
| 13 | Cllr Brooks was unavailable for comment but Elizabeth Leitch , Monklands housing convener , said it was regrettable that Cllr Murphy had seen fit to make allegations to the press instead of to the appropriate authorities . |
| 14 | With six shoes under £37 , Diadora is likely to make inroads into the budget end of the market . |
| 15 | Because the polls , and therefore the program , are likely to shortchange the minor parties , and because the minor parties are most likely to make gains at the Conservatives ' expense , the program is liable to project somewhat too high a level of Tory parliamentary support . |
| 16 | Why , another member wanted to know , were the speeches of the president often cut short to make way for the programmes which follow ? |
| 17 | Here is a case for ‘ outreach ’ since , if the library is not shown to be hospitable and friendly by librarians going out to the children , the children are unlikely to make contact with the library in any way other than as vandals . |
| 18 | You are unlikely to make headway at the end of the month when discussing important career issues , travel plans or personal matters . |
| 19 | While it is perhaps not completely safe to make conclusions about the evolution of natural features from the fate of man-made structures , the breaching of a former complete bar does , as its author suggests , provide an alternative to the hypothesis of a locally reversed drift . |
| 20 | For some the spur may be that it would be more useful to be able to read the health and safety rules of the factory in which they work , or to be able to make sense of the words in the mail order catalogue in which they are required to shop . |
| 21 | So I was able to make excursions throughout the state , which is about the size of Hampshire , admiring its astonishing number of traditional country houses , and enjoying the company of many of their owners . |
| 22 | Many were quite mobile , with suits of scales , and were probably able to make sallies into the waters well above the sea floor . |
| 23 | He said a fly fishing club would be able to make bookings at the country 's best lakes and reservoirs , and be an active forum to increase the skill and knowledge of members . |
| 24 | In the evening a teacher arrived to help me learn the language , and in a few days I was able to make conversation with the island people . |
| 25 | They were able to make forays onto the land and back for longer periods into the water , to keep their skin damp and to reproduce . |
| 26 | have a pencil and paper ready to take down interview details — dates , times , names and travel information , if you are able to make arrangements over the telephone ; |
| 27 | In this way , it is believed , linguists will be able to make discoveries about the language itself , and its system of rules which exists quite independently of particular circumstances . |
| 28 | The Professional version offers the additional feature of being able to make adjustments to the stitch layout from within the COLOUR PATTERN section , so you can edit your colour pattern and stitch layout at the same time if you want to . |
| 29 | However , we were able to make comparisons for the use of fixed-term contract workers and we also report briefly the results of this exercise . |
| 30 | If the value is a legally recognised interest , the third State may be able to make representations against the parties for its protection . |