Example sentences of "[vb pp] make [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The estimated cost was in the region of £3,000 per inmate , though the residents would be expected to make contributions towards the overheads through sick benefit or social security payments . |
| 2 | They will be expected to make presentations to the seminar group , not only on lesson preparation but also on integrating communicative activities . |
| 3 | Esther Rantzen is often seen making use of the genre when she asks elderly ladies to do impersonations of Tom Jones or perform an impromptu rumba . |
| 4 | It 's been done to make room for the Motorola Inc 88110 Mbus input/output interface and increased cache . |
| 5 | Congress is not empowered to make laws for the states or to substitute them for the laws of individual states and so on . |
| 6 | The Campaign also believes local communities should be empowered to make decisions about the shape of their own local area and directly involved in the process of protection , enhancement and management . |
| 7 | Of course , the fee charged will probably be greater as a result because the freelance programmer might have envisaged making use of the program elsewhere ; he may know of other businesses which would be interested in what he produces . |
| 8 | The club closed in the late Sixties and was later demolished to make way for the shopping centre Eldon Gardens . |
| 9 | As early as 1914 , arrangements for building new sick wards , that is , a workhouse infirmary , had been progressing , and in October , some sheds which had been used for wood chopping and storage were demolished to make way for the building of the new sick pavilions . |
| 10 | How water was raised from the well can only be speculated but close to this spot stood an old Elizabethan house , which was demolished to make way for the flats . |
| 11 | The church took its name from that of an older church a little way off that was demolished to make way for the ramparts of the Porta Romana in 1532 . |
| 12 | The value of Newcastle 's shipping industry in the nineteenth century made it necessary for large ships to pass up the river , and the low stone bridge of 1771 was demolished to make way for the Swing Bridge built by Armstrongs , and at that time the largest of its kind in the world . |
| 13 | An early fourth-century building had been demolished to make way for the wall , thus providing an approximate date for its construction . |
| 14 | A whole street of houses had been demolished to make way for the edifice looming above her , Isabel vaguely recalled hearing . |
| 15 | The company was forced to close its Redcar and Stockton shops and the Middlesbrough branches were demolished to make way for the Cleveland Centre . |
| 16 | A word-grammar is used to make decisions of the form : |
| 17 | The question asked is usually along the lines of : ‘ If the election were tomorrow , which party would you vote for ? ’ , and the results are then used to make predictions about the outcome of the election itself . |
| 18 | Other advantages for registration as a charity are that those parents and friends who can be persuaded to make covenants to the association will be able to gain tax relief and companies that give donations will find it easier to convince the tax man that their gift was entirely for charitable purposes . |
| 19 | I suppose it is not impossible that , if I had needed to make application to the authorities to undertake a dash to and from London for the purpose I had in mind , the brother-in-law 's request might by some happy chance have ‘ married up ’ with my own application . |
| 20 | According to Gawley , Dunlop had agreed to make alterations to the gear box immediately after the North West race but he added : ‘ When I got to the pits at the North West immediately after the 125 class had been run off , I saw the bike lying there with no-one attending to it . |
| 21 | As more and more Grand Prix races were added to the Formula One calendar the Cup lost its international appeal and in 1976 the Cup abolished to make way for the Formula Pacific Series in New Zealand , and the Formula 5000 Series in Australia . |
| 22 | Then out of the blue he got a phone call asking if he was still interested in the car as it had to be sold to make space for the family . |
| 23 | It is difficult and probably impossible to allow people thus abused to make statements in the press which can only interfere with the process of justice by which someone is tried . |
| 24 | This side of the issue was entrusted to Lord Brabazon of Tara , whose committee was invited to make recommendations on the types of aircraft that Britain should produce for the postwar period . |
| 25 | Whatever method is employed to make height at the overlap , some 40ft ( 12m ) up the final corner , there is still a long reach to be made to find the hold in the crack above . |
| 26 | If Parliament had meant to say that any distribution or publication should suffice , it could very easily have said so ; the courts are bound to make sense of the words that Parliament has in fact used . |
| 27 | There are also rivers for which LAOs have not attempted to make agreements on the grounds that there are no problems or there is not sufficient demand , all very well until someone decides to apply the letter of the law as it presently stands . |
| 28 | According to BLDSC staff , however , the present study is the only one to have attempted to make use of the forms in this way to determine loan frequencies for individual theses . |
| 29 | To test whether human observers use the differential perspective cues to scale perceived depth , observers were asked to make judgements about the amount of perceived peak-to-trough depth of sinusoidal corrugations defined by horizontal disparities . |
| 30 | The school teachers ' review body has been asked to make recommendations on the pay and conditions of school teachers in 1992-93 . |