Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] make [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ferry companies need to get their acts together to make ferries safe .
2 Such policies only make sense to the corporate investors and stem from the perceived need to avoid integrating the industry in any but the core capitalist countries .
3 Some of these challenges are entirely technical but others are conceptual , stemming from the fact that most methods only make sense if one makes certain assumptions about the brain which may , or may not , be valid .
4 And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes .
5 The prospect of their victory has prompted the federal judge overseeing the school-desegregation plan publicly to warn the candidates not to make promises he will not allow them to keep .
6 DP supporters nevertheless made accusations of ballot-rigging in the March 31 polling .
7 They have advised schools not to make copies available to parents .
8 The Duchess had sworn in a very mild tone , but her words still made Lord John bridle .
9 It was chaotic , true , but Corman 's pictures always made money and that was the way everyone was judged .
10 Many of the new parties also made calls for further political reforms .
11 That was how prospective clients often made contact , since Mala and I made the ship our home and office , in space , much of the time .
12 The Master of the Merchant Venturers graciously made Merchants Hall available for these dinners , the first of which was organised for the Faculty of Medicine .
13 We are asking Local Education Authorities not to make sales of school playing fields in future unless there is no evidence of long-term need .
14 There is no evidence that the Ismaili Assassins ever made contact with the Crusaders in the relatively short history of the sect .
15 The mines inspectorate have admitted to Public Eye , the roof bolting method next to old workings underground made Bilsthorpe a different case from normal , but they stress the system was carefully examined before it was allowed .
16 Pop music ( as in chart music ) has a habit of sweeping whole areas aside to make way for newer , equally lightweight material from an equally sickly new wave .
17 At some stage , in general , elements formerly made zero will again become nonzero , though usually smaller than before .
18 During this period contractors frequently made payments in cash and individual sub-contractors changed their names from time to time to avoid detection by Inland Revenue inspectors .
19 Margaret shows the 13 parents how to make things and they show their children .
20 The driver was apparently unfamiliar with the area , and the need to call directions forward made questions and conversation impossible ; the only responses he could get were Langstone , a promise of explanations later , and another reassurance that everything had been cleared through his office .
21 But few Japanese beverage companies yet make drinks-cans with tab openers that remain attached to the cans — even though companies in the US and Canada have been manufacturing these for almost 15 years .
22 The erm , with that addition I will move the recommendation in paragraph three of minute twelve of the property sub-committee 's minutes , to make representation to the association of county council urging the Government to reconsider it 's policy in not allowing local authorities permanently to make use of the full amount of capital realised from sales of assets .
23 In contrast , most nomadic and tribal groups still make rugs in the time-honoured dark reds and primary hues of their ancestors , while Persian workshop groups employ both pastel and rich shades .
24 Moreover , that history and that revelation to which Christians necessarily make reference are in some sense normative for the religion .
25 The need to guard against desertion had considerable influence even on the development of tactics ; and governments naturally made efforts to repress a practice which so obviously threatened the strength and morale of their armies .
26 It has had , since its inception , an adversarial relationship with governments and its activists are not the sort of people with whom Conservative governments easily make friends , particularly when they block the outflow pipe of nuclear processing plants such as the one at Sellafield in Cumbria .
27 Both versions thus make play with the paradox of life and health through suffering and death , but the short version makes a much more pointed and concentrated use of the theme .
28 Clockwise from left : Mister C sports specially made Shamen T-shirt and pagan symbol pendant ; Houston 's progressive house fans file into the Shamen Hallowe'en ‘ rave ’ at the Tower Theater ; dancer from support band Utah Saints gets into Ebeneezer garb and joins The Shamen on stage for ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’
29 One of the younger adopted children she had known at school , a very charming and beautiful girl of Indian parentage , some years later made contact with her again , and they talked about fashions and make-up together .
30 WIN.INI is the more important one because applications often made changes here .
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