Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [subord] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which particular words and phrases show that the writer is stating opinions rather than making judgements ? |
| 2 | This is because the government 's objectives relate to the welfare of New Zealanders rather than making a profit . |
| 3 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 4 | But erm I do n't think that the town show perhaps I was I 'm prejudiced to the fact that , that we 'll be losing money rather than making it but it was n't anything like we put on for entertainment ! |
| 5 | wrong anyway in that er I 'll say it 's the er early on it in the report Good defines what he determines a prus trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively orb enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund er is against that duty in the first place , but it to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty which I will say stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 6 | Oh , I 'd say it is w wrong anyway in that er I say it 's the it 's early er on it in the report Good defines what he determines a trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively ought enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund then it is against that duty in the first place , but it 's to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty saying stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 7 | Many fans drift into and out of groups rather than making a gradual progress . |
| 8 | She can not get a job without training and she can not get training from the Basildon authorities so as to make herself available for work . |
| 9 | The psychoanalyst uses a more general framework of knowledge derived from other analyses , and applies the more general concepts to the individual case so as to make sense of the development of the person . |
| 10 | The concerns of Scott J were echoed by Harman J in Systems Reliability Holdings Plc v Smith [ 1990 ] IRLR 377 where the judge concluded ( in a case where he was concerned with an express restriction on the use and disclosure of , in particular the knowledge acquired by the defendant during his employment of the ability to modify an old computer by a small addition so as to make a new product of significant commercial value ) that the controversial part of Neill LJ 's judgment did not bind him to hold that there can not be in an express restrictive of covenant any restriction on information held by an ex-employee which is not a trade secret or something similar . |
| 11 | So Father Kleinsorge got a large piece of grass and drew out the stem so as to make a straw , and gave them all water to drink that way . |
| 12 | I have suggested that it is the function of grammar to reduce the range of meaning signalled by words so as to make them more effective in the identification of features of context , thereby providing for the increased indexical potential of lexis . |
| 13 | To show this , suppose that the UK has a relatively high rate of inflation and that , as a result , the pound is depreciating : speculators who expect the pound to continue depreciating will sell pounds and buy stronger currencies so as to make a capital gain later . |
| 14 | In particular and Since all the b n coefficients are zero through having chosen the time origin so as to make the function even in time , the half-wave rectified sinewave of figure 11.2(a) is evidently equivalent to In other words , the half-wave rectified sinewave shown in figure 11.2(a) is equivalent to the harmonic spectrum of pure cosinewaves shown in figure 11.2 ( b ) . |
| 15 | My hon. Friend is correct — it must make sense to have pay bargaining as near as possible to the point and location of work so as to make the labour market work as efficiently as possible and to reward people as fairly as possible . |
| 16 | However , 11 stated that it was poorly written , and all but one of those 11 rewrote the passage so as to make it conform to Hankamer & Sag 's parallelism condition — some changed the antecedent from are critical of to criticize , others changed the form of the ellipses ( e.g. … anyone who is … ) or eliminated it ( e.g. … anyone who was openly critical … ) . |
| 17 | This refers to the shock treatment applied by Western-dominated financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) to the economies of developing countries so as to make them more efficient . |
| 18 | A statement may be made in writing , orally or even by contract , for example , by making the goods tell a lie about themselves as in the case where the seller patched up a crack in the barrel of a cannon so as to make it appear unfractured , Horsfall v. Thomas ( 1862 ) . |
| 19 | To establish a revitalised and more ambitious energy and resource conservation programme , with special emphasis on reducing environmental effects so as to make further substantial progress by 1995 . |
| 20 | Make a note of the values at maximum and minimum and if they are not of equal magnitude adjust the zero-offset trimpot so as to make them equal . |
| 21 | If RBGE participation in proposals within this programme is approved , we are in an excellent position to take our own scientific work forward while making a substantial contribution to the Community 's international position in plant sciences . |
| 22 | Dunne , Chapman 's last attempt to find a successor to Lambert , proved to be past his best , but Drake more than made up for lost time , scoring 42 League goals in 1934–5 , a club record for a single season . |
| 23 | Here , it is enough to note that the adoption , largely at Owen 's prompting , by the trade union movement of the strategic objective of organising manufacturing industry in industrial co-operatives , of adopting Co-operation for its own sake so as to make a revolutionary change in the constitutional structure of society , ended almost as soon as it had begun . |
| 24 | In a number of provisions the 1977 Protocols seek to restate the principles of the laws of war so as to make as clear as possible the unacceptability of ‘ total war ’ . |
| 25 | Write so that he can not twist your meaning so as to make you agree to opinions the opposite of those you hold . |
| 26 | Objectively , Karen was prepared to go almost as far as her predecessor , and her eager greed more than made up for the thrill I used to get from subjecting dogged , cow-like Manuela to the same routines . |
| 27 | After revolution had begun in Europe , Nicholas was less determined to send his troops abroad than to make clear that he would brook no dissent at home . |
| 28 | He feels that the church should be helping people overcome problems rather than making money through showing the church to tourists or buying paintings . |
| 29 | In practice , as we have seen , it is British policy to subsidise the polluting farmers rather than make them pay to clean up the pollution . ) |
| 30 | The worry takes two main forms : that American managers spend too much time thinking about short-term earnings rather than making long-term investments ; and that American firms face a higher cost of capital than Japanese or German rivals and so reject investment projects that others eagerly accept . |