Example sentences of "[adj] make [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Punk rock had had a purging effect on pop music ; clearing out the old to make way for the new .
2 Afraid to make friends with the other students ( Is it him that 's the spy ?
3 It is , of course , very easy to make fun of the parliamentary draftsmen .
4 I followed this recommendation but , not having a very developed commercial instinct , I was glad to make gifts to the various people who were kind to me .
5 It 's unlikely that you will be able to make use of the existing mortise , so fill the old mortise properly , as this area may need to be used for fixing to .
6 You moved that , that , that local authorities should be able to make use of the full amount of capital from it 's receipts .
7 We can , and should , be able to make use of the syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations between these ordered sets to constrain possible identities of input phonemes .
8 The Governing Body has decided that the income from this fund , which is used according to the By-Law to provide Edith Haynes Scholarships for either undergraduates or graduates of the College at the discretion of the Governing Body , will for the present be available to make grants in the first instance to mature graduates of the College who wish to continue or resume academic work , and are ineligible for State Studentships , or similar public support , by reason of age or inability to meet the requirement of residence in the U. K. Should no such applicant come forward , graduates of another university who are or have been members of the College reading for a further degree will be considered eligible .
9 Because half of the Library 's budget represents payment in advance for subscriptions for the following year , it is extremely difficult to make savings in the current year when financial pressures are exerted .
10 Such an open-ended commitment to a government that most Unionists regarded with contempt could hardly last for long : Law found it convenient to make use of the Unionist Business Committee , constituted in January 1915 as an official opposition group , and he suggested Walter Long as its chairman , so harnessing Long 's vindictive powers and giving the party some means of influencing the government without breaking the party truce .
11 In order to determine the yield on such bonds , it is necessary to make forecasts of the relevant index .
12 Rather than seeing responses to questions as simple indicators of factual properties , these theorists saw them as data from which it was possible to make inferences about the dispositional and motivational character of social actors ' behaviours .
13 He even had a ready made foundation for the new bank — the Equivalent Company set up to administer the money and debentures paid to Scotland as a compensation for some pre-Union perfidy on the part on the English .
14 On the other hand , rules of the ISMA require firms to make markets to some extent and other firms may be ready to make markets in the relevant issue .
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