Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb -s] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When firm cut in half , cut the rice paper into triangles and use the cocktail sticks to make a sail on each ‘ boat ’ . |
| 2 | So , when the play starts making a lot , I get this extra money on top of my royalty ! ’ |
| 3 | There perhaps you would say the id is beginning to dominate the ego , but in accepting these extreme cases of , of psychotics who are severely divorced from reality , the , what always happens is the id has to make a demand on the ego which then gratifies it . |
| 4 | The president has made a habit of breaking election promises . |
| 5 | Allegations that the expert has made a mistake will succeed only if the mistake is an error so fundamental that no expert is likely to have made it . |
| 6 | One party or the other will almost always be in a position to complain that the judge has made a mistake , that the " right " was his , not his opponent 's . |
| 7 | This means that the seller has made a return of 50 per cent on his initial investment of 200 in just five days while the buyer has lost 50 per cent of his initial investment . |
| 8 | The court has made a direction to the local authority that the guardian ad litem be allowed to have continuing involvement with a view to making an application in due course if thought appropriate . |
| 9 | ( b ) The child The child is entitled to respondent status in : ( i ) applications under Parts IV and V of the Act ( proceedings which relate to care , supervision , contact , child assessment , emergency protection and recovery orders ) ; ( ii ) applications under Part III of the Act ( secure accommodation orders and approval to the emigration of children in care ) ; ( iii ) any application for a residence order under s8 in relation to a child in care ; ( iv ) any family proceedings in which the court has made a direction for investigation under s37(1) ( see Chapter 3 , 1(b) ) and has either made or is considering whether to make an interim care order . |
| 10 | the television has made a difference . |
| 11 | The adult has made a change to the array — introduced garages irrelevant to the number of cars . |
| 12 | But do n't you think that th do n't you think that the fact that the father , I 'm speaking do n't you think that the fact that the father has made a capital settlement |
| 13 | Do n't you think that the fact that the father has made a capital settlement , that he has sometimes to travel to the other end of the country to see his child , do n't you think that should be taken into account . |
| 14 | Success rates for tasks where the pupil has to make a measurement , or work from a given measurement , were found to depend upon two specific difficulty factors whether the number concerned is an awkward decimal and whether or not the measuring instrument in use has to be applied repeatedly . |
| 15 | Before leaving the accident site the investigator needs to make a wreckage plot showing where all the pieces of wreckage were positioned , in relation both to each other and to a fixed point on a large scale map . |
| 16 | For example , when Dostoevsky abandons the ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ chapter but retains the brief exchange in which Shatov urges Stavrogin to go to Bishop Tikhon , and Stavrogin replies ‘ Thank you , I will ’ , let nobody persuade us the novelist has made a mistake . |
| 17 | When LIBRAFILE is purchased , the librarian has to make a copy of the master disk for day to day use . |
| 18 | Once there , the woman starts to make a play for the young man but , before a seduction can take place , Mr Robinson returns . |
| 19 | No mention of massive unemployment , deprivation or any of the other factors which have to be taken into account when the Government considers making a town into a development area . |
| 20 | The government has made a mess of its showpiece , the privatisation of the profitable Muslim Commercial Bank . |
| 21 | If the government has to make a decision on the socially efficient level of pollution anyway , it may be simpler to regulate the quantity directly . |
| 22 | The firm needs to make a profit . |
| 23 | Given that this relationship is the determinant of whether the investor has made a profit or loss ( ignoring transactions costs for the moment ) , it is of primary importance in determining the option premium . |
| 24 | The man has made a fool of himself , but the girl was almost equally stupid . |
| 25 | Basic block 1 : the attacker begins to make a knife hand strike . |
| 26 | Because the county has to make a decision on the road closure so therefore it should go to rather than . |
| 27 | ‘ Whoever put up the money for the scheme has made a fortune . |
| 28 | Shadow Energy Secretary Frank Dobson says the treasury has made a killing out of the increases . |
| 29 | If the company wishes to make a profit the tender price should be higher than this . |
| 30 | The company intends making a beta version of the NT software available next month . |