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

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1 Adjustment of the relative risks for smoking made little difference .
2 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 .
3 By contrast , the availability of simple , rapid , reliable , and cheap screening tests for syphilis makes this STD amenable to routine antenatal screening .
4 Disabled people 's main aim may be just to create art , but for many the current scale of discrimination makes that goal unreachable .
5 More useful criteria would be the type of decision made such as policy or routine ; or type of situation such as whether a crisis is likely to affect a large number of employees or a few ; or whether the problem is a short or long term one .
6 Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction .
7 The low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure .
8 The incredibly low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure .
9 That the Board of Review made this assumption appears also from the reference in their first determination to the profits accruing to the taxpayer from the fees derived from the sub-licencing being sourced in the countries to which the sub-licences related .
10 If such statutory clauses were ever intended to reflect the common law ( and this is not clear ) , the dichotomy drawn within them between the two heads of review makes little sense in light of the expansion of non-statutory review .
11 Ordinarily a ‘ deserving ’ widow might have sought the aid of various charities first , but apparently Mrs Woodward 's lack of deference made this impossible .
12 However this time , whether or not a change of ownership makes any difference to that permission , I intend to lodge an official complaint .
13 Cor there must be some reason for it of course , perhaps they 're not , not erm picking up or yes I could easily of bought erm a couple bottles of wine to make that
14 New and simple techniques of rehydration make most deaths — except of the very young and old — preventable .
15 Ian Cocking just about manages to persuade the council that the ramp is worth keeping so the ramp is fixed up but a botch job on one piece of coping makes any trick other then just plain rock 'n' rolls virtually impossible .
16 The use of propaganda to make this behaviour unfashionable again has been suggested ( Stanley 1969 ) , but no health education programme has ever been put forward to this purpose and it is difficult to know whether such an approach would be feasible .
17 It 's a lot different from living together and my parents are divorced , so I 'm wary because you just do n't know how it will turn out — that bit of paper makes such a difference . ’
18 In fact , most girls entering science are probably at this stage as they will need some self-examination and sense of commitment to make this unconventional choice .
19 Ace appeared to have gone to a great deal of trouble to make this place so pretty and welcoming .
20 Secondly , the strength of the Catholic Church is still a major factor in the failure of Marxism to make any significant inroads into the Latin American masses , particularly the peasantry .
21 Macmillan saw privatization as an ideological approach to the problems of industry motivated by a simple desire on the part of Government to make some quick money .
22 Has the Secretary of State made any advance in redressing the ridiculous situation of the Scottish soldiers in the territorial units who served in the Gulf for 51 days and who were constantly under attack by Scud missiles ?
23 The fact that the Council 's Structure Plan , in which their planning policy is enshrined , has not yet been accepted by the Secretary of State makes these changes in direction all the easier .
24 Is not the real reason why the Secretary of State makes those absurd and fictitious claims about the effect of the social charter , which bears no resemblance to the reality of the proposals , that he dare not admit that the Government are opposed , not just in detail but in principle , to the idea of binding employment standards across the Community ?
25 The court accepted that in certain circumstances information about prices could be invested with a sufficient degree of confidentiality to make that information a business secret or its equivalent but in the present case it found factors which led it to the conclusion that neither the information about the prices nor the sales information as a whole had the degree of confidentiality necessary to support the plaintiff 's claim .
26 Although he had managed to complete " East Coker " there , his duties as an air-raid warden were becoming too arduous for him — he had to sit up two nights each week , and his general loss of sleep made any kind of work more difficult .
27 ‘ Oh , no , I think a bit of property makes all the difference . ’
28 The steamship and the railway , the legacy of the colonial past and the expansive power of commerce make this inevitable .
29 ‘ There was a lot of pressure to make that birdie as I knew I was near the cut , ’ said Ballesteros , who is battling to emerge from a spell of wretched form .
30 The early versions of this package were subject to quite a lot of criticism , mainly because the user interface of dBFast made little or no use of the fact that you were working in Windows .
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