Example sentences of "to make [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On this he was adamant and unswerving , however much his father might extol the supreme chance at Oxford to make contacts for a future career , as yet undefined .
2 ( part of Barnardo 's providing support for HIV positive parents who want to make plans for the future care of their children )
3 One example is ‘ Barnardo 's Positive Options ’ which provides confidential and independent information and practical help for parents who want to make plans for the future care of their children .
4 Happily , the faux-pas has n't stopped Dino continuing to make inroads into the Irish record market ; latest news from the camp is that they 'll have an album from Latoya Jackson in the shops for Christmas …
5 Swindon now joins Sunderland , with Nissan , and Toyota in Derbyshire , as the third centre in the Japansese drive to make inroads into the European car market .
6 The NAP , trying to make inroads into the Asian community , put out its own sheet , called Breaking the Silence .
7 Money was required not only for more powerful transmitters but also for the building of regional studio centres to make programmes for the entire country , so that RTD output would not be so Dar es Salaam-orientated .
8 The latter has limited powers to make judgments in the first instance , subject to the right of appeal to the the Court of Justice .
9 In February 1961 a summit meeting of the six Common Market governments agreed to create a commission to make proposals for a political union .
10 To make proposals for the effective monitoring of local employment development agencies .
11 As the government looks for cuts , it will find plenty of scope to make improvements at the same time .
12 Silas introduced them , and in an effort to make amends for the earlier incident on the highway she held out her hand and spoke quietly .
13 ‘ And if possible try to make amends for the rude way you spoke to Lucy .
14 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 .
15 A NORTH-EAST council is hoping to make waves at a top boat show .
16 These proprietors retain the potential to exercise political power : indeed , they have used their ownership to chart the political direction of their newspapers , but they have stopped well short of using their newspapers to make demands of the political system in the manner of the press barons of the 1930s .
17 Convinced that a hung parliament was inevitable , Ashdown had begun to make demands for an immediate commitment to PR from a minority Labour government that a more sensible ( and sensitive ) politician would have left until after 9 April .
18 For much of the 1980s , internal price controls and market reserve policies combined to make margins on the domestic market much more attractive than for exports .
19 When a pet cat has started scratching the fabric of a valuable chair , for example , or has begun to make messes on an expensive carpet , it would be helpful to be able to sprinkle or smear some hated odour there to keep the animal away .
20 In dealing with pitch phenomena , it is essential to make comparisons in a controlled environment .
21 The Leasing and Factoring Conventions , with a view to expansion of their scope , follow the model of the Vienna Sales Convention but in acknowledgment of the concerns expressed by various States all three Conventions confer a power on Contracting States to make reservations excluding the second form of connecting factor .
22 Snell has suggested that this sense of right was sufficiently marked to make expectations from the Poor Law part of the " moral economy " which Edward Thompson has applied to the poor 's expectation that corn would be sold to them at " just " prices .
23 They sought to employ unskilled labour — " colting " — to make stockings by a cheaper method .
24 These enable us to make statements about the relative influence of parents and peers and the effect of social and linguistic maturation .
25 Apart from these special sessions we encouraged more and more people to make statements in the main inquiry ( where the atmosphere was more formal and they could be cross-examined by a CEGB barrister ) .
26 This Meeting , taking also into Consideration the numbers of Complaints against makers & sellers of yearn in Isla , hereby appoint that a Mercat for yearn shall be held at Bowmore on the first Tuesday of March yearly , and on such other days as they afterwards shall appoint , And hereby ordain the Clerk to make advertisments for the different Parish Kirks .
27 He has found the thicker yarn ends are best doubled up or used treble to make blankets on the chunky machine .
28 Resources used to produce goods and services for the government can not be used to make goods in the private sector .
29 He inherited this Bill a and it is not always easy er to make changes of the radical nature which he has proposed .
30 The traditionalism of egalitarian feminist psychology gains it a hearing in the conventional discipline , and allows it to make changes within the established framework .
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