Example sentences of "[adv] make [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They only make love on the twenty-ninth of February , ’ said Hyacinth , ‘ and then only when it rains . ’ |
| 2 | Surely they 'd do better making love on board Grace than on a few yards of Mackenzie tartan ? |
| 3 | The first is called buffering , and really only makes difference on slower systems . |
| 4 | In the 1930s , they earned enough to make payments on their debentures and , usually , on their preference shares , though ordinary shareholders got very little . |
| 5 | There is nothing wrong with any of these aspects ; practice in reading and the development of the habit of reading is a vitally important part of all education , and the Library Association very properly made representations on this score to the Bullock Committee . |
| 6 | An anonymous group of army officers supported these resignation calls in November , leading Pinochet in December to recall the army to barracks , a move interpreted as a show of force as the number of corruption charges increased him and the date approached for the release of the Rettig report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( CVR ) , which was finally made public on March 4 , 1991 [ see p. 38095 ] . |
| 7 | While on the voyage he read Lyell 's Principles of Geology and was soon making observations on the gradual elevation of the Andes , which converted him to uniformitarianism . |
| 8 | ‘ We once made love on the spur of the moment in the loo of an aircraft , ’ she recalls . |
| 9 | I mean well , not a reasonable mar he 's still making money on the drinks |
| 10 | This is especially encouraging when , at a time of particular strain on our domestic budgets , there are more charities than ever making demands on the pounds on our pockets . |
| 11 | James was always making drawings on every piece of paper he could lay hands on — even his father 's sermons were not safe . |
| 12 | PAY MORE TO MAKE IT ON TIME |
| 13 | I also made documentaries on the battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz , with both of which , as the reader may recall , I had had distant brushes , and the battlecruiser or fast battleship Scharnhorst which had sunk my father 's Rawalpindi . |
| 14 | It also made statements on pressing issues in the church and the world . |
| 15 | Moreover , the cross-curricular Working Party which is looking at a variety of themes including Economic Awareness , will also make demands on the support of the local business community . |
| 16 | Major and his Chinese counterpart , Li Peng , also made progress on setting up an independent court of appeal in Hong Kong , on the colony 's right to negotiate trade investment agreements , and on agreement over land controlled by the UK military . |
| 17 | The Minister has also made statements on the increasingly complex issues of how far a council can allocate its own costs of contract supervision to the tender submitted by an outside contractor ( Hedley 1989a:10 ) . |
| 18 | Typically this involves writing down lots of verbatim quotes and also making notes on any non-verbal goings-on . |
| 19 | This may mean not only placing specific contractual obligations upon his supplier but also making tests on more than infrequent random samples of the goods supplied , Riley v. Webb ( 1987 D.C. ) and Rotherham M.B.C. v. Raysun ( 1988 D.C. ) . |
| 20 | We er , the we , we have also to make statements on the indigenous people and land rights because we were confronted with the position of Aborigine people in er , Australia . |
| 21 | The Commission 's brief was not only to address the problems of mentally disordered people but also to make recommendations on community care for elderly people and everyone with long-term physical or mental disabilities . |
| 22 | Since lions always like to isolate one individual from the herd before attacking , this theory also makes sense on paper , but reality does not bear it out because lions can all too easily single out animals for the kill . |
| 23 | It is too early to say whether this is the way the brain works but , as Rolls ( 1987 ) points out , it would make a lot of sense of a lot of uninterpretable data if it was ; it also makes sense on logical grounds , since it gets round the problems associated with grandmother cells , like the problem of perceiving novel objects and the complexities of arranging the massive degree of convergence of input required for grandmother cells to work . |
| 24 | Eva herself was a good cook and often made cakes on a Saturday morning which " she presented with pride and joy " . |
| 25 | I 'm in no case now to make war on any marcher lord . |
| 26 | It is true that when historians come to the basic task of source evaluation and exploitation , they will not be able to examine the alterations and check the handwriting but strategies of text analysis are already available which will allow researchers to evaluate authorship and even make judgements on changing style within an individual author 's corpus of text ( Holmes 1991 ) . |
| 27 | UNIVERSIADE GB , the company organising the World Student Games at Sheffield in 1991 , will today make room on its board for a new director . |
| 28 | Mr Sinclair said : ‘ Mr Jowett was fairly regularly making devices on the farm and was a very accomplished electronics engineer . ’ |
| 29 | Patients sometimes make demands on a therapist which exceed what can reasonably be expected of a therapeutic relationship and which do not appear likely to help solve their problems . |
| 30 | It is not that people need to change or be ‘ cured ’ ; it is that they need to pursue their thoughts to their logical conclusion and from there make decisions on the basis of what they have discovered about themselves . |