Example sentences of "make [pers pn] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought the dead whiteness of the dress made me more of a corpse than a bride but had n't enough energy to infuriate my mother by telling her so . |
| 2 | In that case the defendant had made her home with a tenant of a private sector house for three years and continued to make her home with the tenant when he was granted a secure tenancy of a council house . |
| 3 | Boswell had by now made it plain over a number of years that he wished to write Johnson 's Life . |
| 4 | I do n't even know if you have a mother or father , or whether they made you up in a test tube . |
| 5 | So why 'd they make him up to a supervisor then ? |
| 6 | One brandy would make him in to a number . |
| 7 | ( Do I make it sound like a paradise , a utopia , a socialist state such as would delight Shelley 's and your father 's hearts ? |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't make it sound like a disease , love , ’ he interrupted gently . |
| 9 | I had some material and they said they would make it up into a Kamiz for me , so next time I went there I took along a garment that fitted me . |
| 10 | Entrenched competitors can make it hard for a supplier to win new orders . |
| 11 | Although that right had been curtailed by s 2(2) of the 1987 Act , which requires a person under investigation to answer questions from the SFO ( or otherwise furnish information ) with respect to any matter relevant to the investigation , the effect of the immunity had been preserved by s 2(8) , which provided that a statement made in accordance with s 2 could only be used in evidence against the person who made it either on a prosecution for knowingly making a false statement ( or recklessly making such ) , or on a prosecution for some other offence where , in giving evidence , that person made a statement which was inconsistent with it . |
| 12 | ‘ I was very pleased when it rained , as Silver Fling is best really at five and a half furlongs , and the easier ground made it more of a test ’ . |
| 13 | Below Inside , comfortable armchairs , reading tables and daily newspapers made it more like a club than a travel agent 's office . |
| 14 | They have two openings on each side of the skull which made it more like a scaffolding , and accounts for the unusually high number of archosaur skulls broken into small fragments . |
| 15 | Just In Time is a great demo , not so much because of original ideas ( there are hardly any ) , but the excellent execution of the routines make it well worth a gander . |
| 16 | Thereafter an employee is rotated through several sections or jobs making them more of a generalist rather than a specialist in one skill . |
| 17 | Although there is no known cure for osteoarthritis , there are some ways of making it less of a problem to ordinary living . |
| 18 | ‘ For some reason I hate to lose , ’ said Chang , ‘ and that makes me more of a fighter . |
| 19 | After this he will be required to make it over to a family member , just as any heir who succeeded him from outside the family would be required to do . |
| 20 | ( In a secondary school where this was regularly used in morning prayers it had to be abandoned because the pupils exploited the rhythm created by the parallelism to make it sound like a football chant ! ) |
| 21 | The format was changed slightly , to make it more of a gala day . |
| 22 | " That makes it easier in a way , but I do n't know if it 's your job or ours . " |
| 23 | ‘ Its concentration on domestic mortgages makes it more like a building society than a bank and , although it has been making losses with the rest of them , it has just managed to climb back into profitability . ’ |
| 24 | It makes it 'ard for a girl to say no when she 's obligated . ’ |
| 25 | The formulation of restraints upon State activities through the adoption ( often by consensus ) of Resolutions and Codes of Conduct within international organisations makes it hard for a State to claim non-party status , as it can to a treaty it has not ratified . |
| 26 | Second , the British way of doing things makes it hard for a company to discover the identity of a suspected concert party-goer hiding behind a nominee . |
| 27 | In an ideal world , your pump should be able to cope happily with normal pond detritus , without the need for a strainer of any kind , and any de-sludging should be at the filter , where back washing makes it less of a chore . |