Example sentences of "[pers pn] make [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will target specifically chosen people in an effort to help them make links with the changing climate . |
| 2 | To ascertain with accuracy whether such structure existed throughout its whole length , I made sections of the spinal marrow at different distances from the brain , and found that each divided portion exhibited an orifice with a diameter sufficient to admit a large sized pin ; from which a small quantity of transparent colourless fluid issued like that contained in the ventricles of the brain . |
| 3 | Using 3½× ¾in wooden slats resting on battens , I made spacers from the same wood , and glued these to the battens . |
| 4 | I made use of the royal authorization to publish the contents … and I reduced the telegram by striking out words , but without adding or altering … |
| 5 | I could make no further headway with the landlord so I made enquiries amongst the other customers : a beggar who whined for alms inside the doorway and a greasy-haired knave , but they only repeated what the landlord had said . |
| 6 | Make sure that you re-edit the file before you make use of the compressed drive . |
| 7 | — Amadé looks on the rat 's body with sorrow , she 's soft-hearted , you know that , when the rat wife come running out , eyes left and right , watching out , a red flower in her teeth , and she makes passes over the dead creature from tip of tail to tip of nose . |
| 8 | When we make love for the second time this throbbing afternoon it is like lingering over liqueurs by a log fire . |
| 9 | Still , we make fun of the titanic , we look back at the romans-christians thing with a sense of romance … why not the munich ‘ disaster ’ . |
| 10 | Again , we make use of the GLAD framework to reflect on their experience . |
| 11 | If we make use of the light principle within ourselves , this can affect our own lives and those of others . |
| 12 | The examinations , tailored to be selective , make no concession to this , nor do they make allowance for the wide range of academic ability and preparedness among the candidates . |
| 13 | They even attacked art — especially ‘ modern art ’ — but while they made fun of the pre-War Cubists , Expressionists and futurists , they borrowed and transformed many of the principles and techniques of these earlier movements . ’ |
| 14 | They walked to the edge of the tranquil water where Christina wrapped her long , slim legs around him , and they made love with the warm Caribbean lapping over them . |
| 15 | They made love on the cool marble floor of the terrace , and much later went to bed and slept in each other 's arms for the first time in months . |
| 16 | ‘ They used to take an interest in the way they made corn-stacks in the old days . |
| 17 | Instead they make selections amongst the many variations of ‘ masculinity ’ and ‘ femininity ’ which suit their control purposes . |
| 18 | Naturally enough , they make demands on the National Health Service . |
| 19 | The great advantage of his system , with its reliance upon external characters and analogies , was that it enabled him to make sense of the whole animal kingdom without the lifetime of research which Lardner 's schedule made impossible . |
| 20 | The Act actually says that we 're concerned with children who have learning difficulties , which calls for special education provision , and to be more specific they refer to children who have greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children of that age , or disabilities which prevent or hinder them making use of the educational facilities generally provided . |
| 21 | The first thing he did he made friends amongst the young men in the college . |
| 22 | Through his research in Norway he made contact with the former secret agent Bernhard Bergersen who was keen to ensure that the Norwegian facts were correct . |
| 23 | Similar preoccupations were at the back of the mind of Hilary Frome himself , as , with the front of his mind , he made conversation with the overdressed parents of one of the boarders . |
| 24 | He made use of the new Dover–Calais cable to transmit information , which he sold to clients , between the London and Paris stock exchanges . |
| 25 | He made use of the Cabinet-committee structure as a filter for business , though he chaired very few committees himself ( the main exceptions were the Economic Policy and Defence committees ) . |
| 26 | Under the astute leadership of its general secretary , Bruce Kent , it made room for the various local and single-issue groups that were mushrooming around the country . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the excuses he makes smack of the old trickery . |
| 28 | The filopodia pull the sheet right across the cavity until it makes contact with the other side where it meets and fuses with another but much smaller invagination which is the future mouth . |
| 29 | If , as is commonly asserted , " the teacher is a resource " , then so are other teachers , and it makes sense in the resource-based mode to make available by timetabling and cooperation those varied " personal reference sources " , the staff . |
| 30 | It makes nonsense of the whole thing . |