Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] make [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schools are important but schooling , of itself , is not going to reshape society , transform industry , reduce crime or make football supporters behave like devout pilgrims visiting a holy shrine . |
| 2 | Or was there something about the nature of French rule that made revolution inevitable ? |
| 3 | Increasing calls from both sides to end domestic feuding and make resistance to Japanese encroachments a priority were resisted by Chiang until 1936 , when he was kidnapped and briefly detained by Chinese troops from Manchuria in Xian . |
| 4 | The infant may gain weight and make progress developmentally while in hospital but the changes in personality and behaviour may be slower . |
| 5 | A following wind which chilled the snow and made life complicated through the Compression troubled some of the top seed . |
| 6 | He held up the packet of film against the light and made non-committal noises . |
| 7 | K. Some of the H.E.P. is used in people 's homes , but much was used for two new industries — smelting aluminium and making paper pulp . |
| 8 | The secretary entered with the coffee tray and made room for it on the desk . |
| 9 | A river ran through it , wearing down the gravel and making mud into which aircraft , especially aircraft loaded with weapons , tended to sink . |
| 10 | Reluctantly I handed over the axe and made way for him , then stood , stretching my back . |
| 11 | In the centre and north , and most especially in the north , the new rulers were communes of merchants , men with a vested interest in expanding the local economy , and more concerned with making money than making war . |
| 12 | A company has set up recently in Crossaig , Strathclyde for instance that makes use of the ISDN system to distribute abstracts from medical journals to its customers . |
| 13 | His willingness to accept violation and destruction at our hands out of love for us the loving obedience to his Father is the darkness of the aboriginal prayer , the prayer that makes sense of any other prayer , the mystery of hope at the heart of hopelessness that Dr Spufford refers to in the death of Robert Aske . |
| 14 | There should also be some metal clips around the bottom of the base that make contact with the lid to make sure the machine is earthed properly . |
| 15 | Reassurance behaviour by touch , caress , mutual clasping , and other tactile means establishes a mutual support between animals known to one another that promotes , on the one hand , confidence in the face of potential antagonists and , on the other , a support that makes aggression unnecessary since simple assertion can maintain an individual 's security . |
| 16 | For all Arnim 's reputation for acerbic wit , in characters and style and ( mutatis mutandis ) in plot , this abridged version is exactly like a girls ' school story of 50 or 60 years ago , even to Lady Caroline 's nickname , Scrap , and the one amazing coincidence that makes fulfilment possible for Rose . |
| 17 | It is this quality which has moved writers to describe her work as mythic : she speaks for us all through an interpretation of her personal experience that makes use of the universal image of the naked human body . |
| 18 | It is Normande milk that makes Camembert cheese . |
| 19 | After that , the dust will begin to settle and you must settle your differences , too , since you will need all the support you can muster to make your mark at work or make life more financially secure . |
| 20 | He did not , as usual , read or stare out of the window or make tea or do any of the things Robert assumed one usually caught teachers doing in off-duty moments . |
| 21 | Have you ever wondered how we prepare all the food for the mouth-watering recipe photography in BBC Good Food Many people seem to think that we cheat by photographing mashed potato instead of ice-cream , and that we paint a chicken or make cotton wool pies . |
| 22 | In Euripidean drama , we see the results of " aesthetic Socratism " , the outlook that makes intelligibility a prerequisite of beauty — a counterpart to Socrates ' notion that only the man of knowledge can be virtuous . |
| 23 | They expect good law that makes sense for business and they expect it to be applied uniformly across the Community , both by implementation and by proper enforcement . |
| 24 | In June , BAe Space Systems , a British Aerospace subsidiary that makes communication satellites , announced it was cutting 640 jobs as part of a rationalisation scheme . |
| 25 | She had far more important things to think about , like how she was going to survive the next four weeks alone with a man whose quiet voice and manner hid a ruthlessness and determination that made steel look limp by comparison . |
| 26 | Some , like traditional psychologists , even claim a central place for biological motherhood in women 's subjectivity : a special ‘ phylogenetic inheritance that makes maternity the most fulfilling role for women , at least when children are young ’ ( Sherman 1971 : 211 ) . |
| 27 | Richards made it worryingly clear how far the Church was responsible for enshrining such illiberal attitudes , though to do it credit , the Church also introduced consent to marriage and made rape a crime against the person , rather than property . |
| 28 | If the plans go ahead , there are fears that up to 80,000 visitors a year will converge on Snowshill … ruining the character of the village and make life more of a misery for the residents . |
| 29 | ‘ I will find work and make money to keep us , while you look for something . |
| 30 | Mr Kinnock said : ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive halt in a very few years . |