Example sentences of "[noun sg] make the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A combination of impeccable service , lavishly decorated public rooms and fine cuisine make the St. Francis a landmark in itself . |
| 2 | Tony Greig had already failed in his attempt to make the West Indies ‘ grovel ’ , and never looked like doing it now . |
| 3 | In an attempt to make the RUC more acceptable to the minority , its leadership structure was radically altered , outsiders were brought in to train and lead it , and the B Special Constabulary was disbanded to be replaced by the Ulster Defence Regiment under army command . |
| 4 | Computers were used extensively during the car 's development , in a successful attempt to make the AX 220lb lighter than the class average . |
| 5 | He applied his fertile mind to local affairs and produced a plan to make the Clyde navigable to Glasgow by building a dam and a lock at Bowling . |
| 6 | Finally , note that arranging the poles and zeros to be coincident makes the Laplace transform independent of s so that the network behaves as an attenuator . |
| 7 | I can dimly recall the challenges of testing a router photograph , and using it to create the November 1989 cover , while the picture of Mark Wilkinson 's treehouse made the February 1990 cover one of my favourites , especially as the references to Czechoslovakia and East Germany coincided with the break up of the Eastern Bloc . |
| 8 | For many of us , working as a group to make the East End Open Studios even a success has been a rare chance to cooperate rather than compete with other artists . |
| 9 | Further practical steps were taken following the second amendment to make the SDR ‘ the principal reserve asset ’ : |
| 10 | The quality of the data , the high response rate , and the large size and representative nature of the sample make the GHS an invaluable source for examining a wide range of issues . |
| 11 | Hooper , chosen ahead of David James because of his experience , could not be faulted for either of the Russians ' goals and desperately wants a chance to make the Anfield number one shirt his own . |
| 12 | Three of the debut boys , England 's Barry Lane , Constantina Rocca — the first Italian to make the Ryder Cup — and former Walker Cup golfer Peter Baker of England , made it through the automatic channel . |
| 13 | He told us … well , what he said was that phetam makes the Ardakkeans super-human . ’ |
| 14 | The London-based committee was in contact with ministers , tried hard to persuade the island legislatures to initiate measures of amelioration to make the West Indian position more tenable in British eyes and managed to raise some petitions on slavery 's behalf , though few compared with the abolitionist flood . |
| 15 | The secret was that the man made the Tabernacle . |
| 16 | The Air Force proposed the use of a single-seat jet fighter to make the Atlantic crossing , an F-15 Eagle . |
| 17 | It takes a slippery road to make the Volvo wag its tail ; over-exuberance with the throttle otherwise does nothing more than make the inside rear wheel spin the power away . |
| 18 | Even before 1985 , Pacepa 's defection and still more the growing criticism of Ceauşescu 's human rights record in Congress made the United States government distance itself from him . |
| 19 | It was in 1975 that Congress made the SEC set up a National Market System for securities , which required efficient execution of transactions , fair competition among broker-dealers and the availability of price quotes . |
| 20 | His mother was in , seated at her kitchen desk and gloomily going over the month 's bills — her Persian lamb coat made the Hudson 's Bay bill look enormous , and , at the rate she was paying it off , it would take until next Easter to clear it . |
| 21 | Her priorities include giving more encouragement to medical research ; emphasis on preventive health to make the NHS a ‘ health as well as a sickness service ’ , with the publication shortly of new national targets for reducing deaths from heart disease and cancers ; and pressing ahead with care in the community . |
| 22 | This was partly due to the legacy of the bitterness over the 1990 budget [ see p. 36969 ] , but was also the result of an initiative made on Dec. 29 , 1989 , by Senator Daniel Moynihan ( Dem. , New York ) , who had suggested cutting social security contributions in an effort to make the US taxation system more progressive and to unmask the true size of the budget deficit . |
| 23 | Such rapid expansion made the USA the leading industrial nation in the world by the early 20th century . |
| 24 | However , at base , the trial centred on the illegal conspiracy to support the Guinness share price during the takeover battle in order to make the Guinness cash and shares offer more attractive to Distillers ' shareholders . |
| 25 | Democratic Left MEP , Des Geraghty , says he will petition the European Parliament to make the Eire Government act . |
| 26 | I am one of those who believe that the revenue support grant makes the Schleswig-Holstein question a model of clarity . |
| 27 | Whether the West 's prerogatives are real , and whether or not they are exercised , the resolution of the territorial controversy has removed the one bone of contention which for a time made the Warsaw Pact a community of shared anxiety . |
| 28 | Euro Disney opens its £2bn theme for a dream Wary French make the Mickey Mouse connection Jenny Rees joins first-day visitors to the Enchanted Kingdom |
| 29 | A six lane demountable running track makes the NIA Britain 's top venue for indoor athletics . |
| 30 | Rovers stand to pick up an extra £25,000 if their former player makes the Great Britain side . |