Example sentences of "[prep] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He thought of making a nest |
| 32 | Because disposal of industrial waste is carried out by private enterprise with the sole interest of making a profit , the temptation to dodge intricate and often expensive safety precautions is evident . |
| 33 | Erm , you , a lot of people now talk as though it 's erm , plain sailing or flying for B Sky B and it 's gon na be er , hunky-dory , whereas Anglia Television have just written their stake down to a prenominal amount because they do n't think it 's gon na make , stand a chance of making a profit before the turn of the millennium . |
| 34 | They are not meant to punish the press , but when a publisher deliberately or recklessly sets out to defame another , with the object of making a profit out of that defamation ( ie by increasing circulation ) the law permits " punitive " damages to be awarded , as in Cassell & Co v Broome : David Irving wrote a book about the fate of a wartime convoy , blaming it upon the negligence of a particular captain , Broome . |
| 35 | One way of making a profit . |
| 36 | Trying out all the different permutations of routes is clearly impractical : there are 3,628,800 different ways of making a journey between 10 towns . |
| 37 | This is a quick way of making a herb cleansing cream . |
| 38 | for example : by making his six dancers appear equally important in Symphonic Variations Ashton was the first to break away from the convention of making a ballerina the focus of attention . |
| 39 | Indeed , it gave the impression of making a success of both . |
| 40 | Second , it is submitted for the plaintiffs that such action is not in relation to the grant or refusal of a further advance because the making of the valuation is not part of the administration or managerial process leading to the grant or refusal but is only a condition precedent to the actual process of making a grant . |
| 41 | But although their vocals were not really intended as more than light relief , many of these players had the knack of making a song more memorable and enjoyable than many a proper singer can — as Eldridge does on Shoe Shin Swing , Gillespie on I 'm Beboppin' Too , Hot Lips Page on Take Your Shoes Off Baby . |
| 42 | Research into computer chess began with the hope of making a machine that could operate with ideas , generalisation and expectations , the way humans do . |
| 43 | ‘ I 'm not saying I lose sleep about it , but the prospect of making a howler in front of millions of people is a worry . |
| 44 | For the purpose of making a haulage contract , an offer may call for acceptance of the haulage services on offer by another promise or by conduct . |
| 45 | The old Norman way — or one of the old ways — of making a cream cheese for dessert is to boil a pint of thick cream with a couple of tablespoons of sugar for about 5 minutes . |
| 46 | An alternative might be to investigate the effects on life history of making a diploid from two independent strains of a habitually haploid organism . |
| 47 | Thereafter Dinah forgot about Olivia ; the child learned to crawl and walk without the fear of making a noise that had pervaded her brothers and sisters at Hampstead . |
| 48 | Hence we can not expect markets and prices to ensure that the marginal benefits of making a noise are equated to the marginal cost of that noise to other people . |
| 49 | I thought that you were thinking of making a trip to Bristol ? |
| 50 | ‘ Instead of making a painting which interpreted an object or depicted its content ’ , he recalls , ‘ I found an object and ‘ presented ’ it just as it was ’ . |
| 51 | I did think of making a call at Ipswich to present my warmest compliments to Mistress Scawsby but that would have been too dangerous . |
| 52 | I was so outraged at this preposterous suggestion , that I got excited and was in danger of making a scene , but Philip Corder and Ian Richmond quietly took me away until I had cooled down . |
| 53 | Still capable , too , of making a scene if slighted . |
| 54 | ‘ I am thinking of making a change up front . |
| 55 | More important , perhaps , is the assumption that the effect of making a change will also be obvious and easy to establish . |
| 56 | the best way of making a hole is to pour a pan of hot water onto the surface until it melts away the ice . |
| 57 | Erm for example , on the on the er catapults , we were capable of making a catapult erm that was so efficient , that on one particular occasion the Americans and the British Navy had a competition to see how many planes they could put in the air er in a certain number of minutes . |
| 58 | Although she spoke lightly , she realized that out of this fantastic scheme they might evolve some means of making a livelihood , and her spirits rose , so that she forgot her disturbing discovery . |
| 59 | But in this particular lesson the decision structure is something of a mirage , for as we have already pointed out at this stage the situation is not real enough for these children to be making anything but a superficial gesture — going through the motions of making a decision . |
| 60 | But this jealousy actually happened because it was a question of making a decision without actually thinking through the consequences of it . |