Example sentences of "[noun] make [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the fourth condition they were asked to judge whether a sentence made any sense .
2 When Mr Rocard made that speech , the ecologists were being credited with almost 20 per cent of the vote .
3 ‘ Does the interview with the Admiral make any difference to anything ? ’
4 The price , to a cheetah , of growing larger leg muscles is all the other things that the cheetah could have done with the materials and energy used to make the leg muscles , for instance make more milk for cubs .
5 Turner 's view that migrants move into the city slums and then out to the shanty towns , is not so much the case now since the large number of spontaneous housing settlements and the widespread knowledge of their existence make this sort of housing immediately available .
6 But despite apparent government support a number of ministers objected and the proposals made little headway .
7 The leader writer depicted the Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh as having been ‘ hoist with her own petard ’ : if she had hoped that her Committee of Enquiry would recommend financial cuts she had been disappointed , for if anything the proposals made some increase in expenditure likely .
8 Whatever one 's political view of them , if the privatization proposals made any sense then prices being kept down by competition should be at their heart .
9 Of the two famous rune stones which stand outside the church at Jelling , the smaller states that " King Gorm made these memorials to Thyre his wife , Denmark 's ornament " ; the larger that " King Harald commanded these memorials made to Gorm his father and Thyre his mother .
10 Once the ice shifted , 250,000 years ago , nomadic hunters made this region their own — we know , for they left a trail of hewn flint artefacts .
11 Does the writer make any judgements about : a ) the character of MacDonald ,
12 Various pressure groups make that point about both the London terminuses .
13 The reasons why the lower socio-economic groups make less use of the education and health services are complex and only a brief comment can be presented here .
14 The position in relation to the use of medical services by the various socio-economic groups is as follows : the higher socio-economic groups make more use of most of the preventive local services ; the same , also , applies for the use of doctors ; the reverse , however , is the case in relation to the use of hospitals .
15 Mummius made some amends to the Greeks by generous dedications in their sanctuaries .
16 Frau Nordern made another foray .
17 Finally — perhaps one should say continuously — there is the comparison between conductors ; and here again , rather surprisingly , Davis 's tried and proved expertise made less impression than the new but not dissimilar touch brought by John Nelson .
18 These show that the birds make little use of the lower mudflats , which would be permanently flooded when the barrage is built , preferring the higher levels , which would still be exposed .
19 It has one central point of teaching and the details of the story make that point both clear and vivid .
20 The chart shows that in total the non-telecom activities made less profit in this half year than last time .
21 Gerry Healy made more ex-Trotskyists than anyone else except Stalin .
22 Bells make that noise .
23 The rule abandons an earlier plan that would have allowed safety boards or state officials to help researchers make such decisions on their own .
24 The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires .
25 The Princess Royal has around 10 hats made each year which means she must have at least 260 to choose from by now .
26 He did n't want money made that way ; he did n't want the humiliation .
27 As we have seen , the inheritance of wealth and educational advantage make this ideology of ‘ free competition for unequal reward ’ a very dubious claim , but in studying social mobility we are still comparing the actual amount of social mobility with the ideal of totally free movement through totally equal opportunity .
28 An important part of that letter which impinges directly on new clause 5 , and makes it essential that the new clause is accepted , was that the right Hon. Gentleman said that before British Rail made any investment plans for rural areas is should consider bus substitution .
29 Leonard himself was enthused to make his own music , an inspiration which developed from being induced to learn the piano as a young boy with Miss McDougall , in which he said that neither he nor his sister made any headway .
30 Cartwright found that the lower socio-economic groups made less use of such local health services as ante-natal clinics or family planning clinics .
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