Example sentences of "[is] make a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All you have to do to take part in this competition is make a £5 donation to Birthright .
2 ‘ All you 've done , ’ Lorton said angrily , ‘ is make a lot of people wonder why you 're so interested in Tolby .
3 But honestly it 's make a date for next week , okay ?
4 ‘ The cost is killing us , and what we are trying to do is make a proportion of business profitable once more .
5 If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients .
6 Or what I might do is make a couple of these up but fill them out a bit more .
7 In course of time he finds that he is the pet antipathy of his superior officers , that he is made a butt for the amusement of other men on parade , and that if there is any unpleasant work or unpopular bear or point going vacant it falls to his lot to fill it .
8 While John Thaw is made a CBE Olympic oarsman and President of Oxford University rowing club Matthew Pinsent , who won gold in Barcelona in the coxless pairs , has been made an MBE .
9 In 1859 , as a ten-year-old abandoned orphan , he is found and adopted by the Cheyenne , and is made a brave called Little Big Man by Chief Old Lodge Skins ( Chief Dan George ) .
10 A journalist politician , Meredith Herbert , is made a minister — perhaps in order that he should be damaged by having to deal with the people on the streets ; he is , perhaps , physically beaten up .
11 8.2 To take Lease following disclaimer If at any time during the Term the Tenant ( being an individual ) shall become bankrupt or ( being a company ) shall enter into liquidation and the trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator shall disclaim this Lease the Guarantor shall if the Landlord shall by notice within [ 60 ] days after such disclaimer so require take from the Landlord a Lease of the Premises for the residue of the Contractual Term which would have remained had there been no disclaimer at the Rent then being paid under this Lease and subject to the same covenants and terms as in this Lease ( except that the Guarantor shall not be required to procure that any other person is made a party to the Lease as guarantor ) such new Lease to take effect from the date of such disclaimer and in such case the Guarantor shall pay the costs of such new Lease and execute and deliver to the Landlord a counterpart of it This provision is inserted to avoid the fact that a disclaimer of a lease by a trustee in bankruptcy or a liquidator will give rise to the release of the guarantor from the date of the disclaimer .
12 I throw that into the arena on the basis that P P G seven exists it is not a policy in the terms of Section fifty four A unless it is made a policy in the terms of Section fifty four A. Nevertheless it is a material consideration in all applications be before the local authority or before the Secretary of State .
13 The Uvistat range , which is made a healthcare company , will help your skin to tan with minimum damage .
14 In his Cours de composition musicale , for example , the Reformation is made a culprit for the extremes of Individualism : ‘ Subdued by the Christian faith , Pride that formidable enemy of man rarely showed itself in the soul of the artist in the Middle Ages .
15 Blanche is made a victim through Stanley 's bestial behaviour but Blanche has brought much of what she got on herself through her lies and deception of herself and of others .
16 In addition to , if it is made a condition of any settlement made by the Seller , or judgment awarded against the Purchaser , pursuant to Condition 10.1 , the Purchaser shall return or destroy , as applicable , all infringing goods still under its control subject to a refund by the Seller of any payment for such goods already made [ less a reasonable allowance for depreciation of the goods by reason of their use ( if any ) by the Purchaser prior to their return or destruction as aforesaid ] .
17 Of the latest case , she said : ‘ It is bad enough when justice is made a mockery of with light sentences , or when abusers are set free .
18 ( 3 ) A requirement under this section to provide a specimen of blood or urine can only be made at a police station or at a hospital ; and it can not be made at a police station unless — ( a ) the constable making the requirement has reasonable cause to believe that for medical reasons a specimen of breath can not be provided or should not be required , or ( b ) at the time the requirement is made a device or a reliable device of the type mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) above is not available at the police station or it is then for any other reason not practicable to use such a device there , or ( c ) the suspected offence is one under section 4 of this Act and the constable making the requirement has been advised by a medical practitioner that the condition of the person required to provide the specimen might be due to some drug ; but may then be made notwithstanding that the person required to provide the specimen has already provided or been required to provide two specimens of breath .
19 Whoever it is made a start with the cat and dog , the family pets . ’
20 The narrator of the tale is made a rhetorician , apostrophizing both his audience : and one of his characters : It has been pointed out that a skilled mastery of the " idiom of popular poetry " , embodied in the witty appropriation of familiar poetic epithets such as hende , jolif and gent , which are used of Nicholas , Absolon and Alison respectively , is not simply a characteristic of Chaucerian style , but is especially exploited by Chaucer for this one tale .
21 Everyone who is made a priest is set the following ‘ weighty Office and Charge ’ at his Ordination Service :
22 ‘ Flick 's made a hit , ’ Gay observed that night , strolling into Breeze 's bedroom clad in the patched pyjamas she had worn at school .
23 He is that rare thing , a chap who 's made a hit by being passive .
24 ‘ People call him a clown after he 's made a mistake , but in my mind he 's a master goalkeeper .
25 Your friend 's made a mistake .
26 ‘ He 's made a mistake ! ’
27 He nods his assent and then , realizing he 's made a mistake , vigorously shakes his head in denial .
28 And one of his main traits is that he 's never been slow to admit he 's made a mistake in the transfer market .
29 That 's made a mess of table !
30 It was for injured hedgehogs he and his wife Sue originally set up their wildlife hospital , St. Tiggywinkles — and now he 's made a video with all you need to know about taking care of the hedgehog which despite their reputation , he says performed beautifully :
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