Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] make the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps worth making the point ( for readers who are just beginning their enquiries into the history of this period ) that a lord did not usually own all the land on his manor but had certain defined rights , which differed from place to place and even between neighbouring settlements . |
| 2 | Yes I think it 's perhaps worth making the point erm to Rosemary that although , as you say , i it 's six feet high , that it does n't spread all that wide and it 's , it 's a mistake in a small garden to think that you ca n't have things that are on the tall side . |
| 3 | There was a time when a racing driver 's wife or girlfriend clicked the stopwatch in between making the tea . |
| 4 | This is somewhat like making the target broader so that it becomes easier to hit . |
| 5 | He felt that the transition from junior to senior school was difficult enough without making the children go to a different teacher for every subject , so the three first-year forms had their own class teacher for maths , English , scripture , history or geography ( one teacher took one or the other for two classes ) and science . |
| 6 | The Eclipse is designed to help make your cooking better by making the process easier . |
| 7 | The wording of subsection ( 1 ) shows quite clearly that it is addressed to the legal purpose of legal effect of consent to treatment , namely , to prevent such treatment constituting in law a trespass to the person , and that it does so by making the consent of a 16- or 17-year-old as effective as if he were ‘ of full age . ’ |
| 8 | Legal experts say it is worth protecting cheques until the new laws come in by making the alterations . |
| 9 | In cases of this sort , inferences arise to preserve the assumption of cooperation ; it is only by making the assumption contrary to superficial indications that the inferences arise in the first place . |
| 10 | It 's not worth making the fighting your way through is it ? |
| 11 | They 'd delight in things like withholding the mail , or telling the cook off for making the food look too attractive or for giving people too much . |
| 12 | Reforms of this kind would go further towards making the welfare system more redistributive than any likely changes in the structure of services or benefits . |
| 13 | It comes perilously close to making the Attorney , in effect , a political censor , an official to whom the media can go , cap in hand , with the question " please Sir , may we publish this ? " |
| 14 | Acer is a name in everyday use among those who loiter in garden centres and whose thoughts are always on making the garden at home a better place . |
| 15 | Maggie got on with making the breakfast . |
| 16 | Yet it is true that , although Foucault 's " counter-sciences " , by repeatedly demonstrating the apparently endless variety of what is humanly possible , have constantly served to enlarge the scope of " us " at the expense of " other " , they have , at the same time , ended up by making the generality man so imprecise as to be almost meaningless . |
| 17 | One possibility is to build the song up by making the list of animal noises longer . |
| 18 | This theory — proposed by P.F. Strawson ( op. cit. ) — rests on the premiss that we possess the idea of a single spatio-temporal system of material things in which every such thing , at any time , is spatially related in various ways to every other similar thing , and that this is in fact the " conceptual scheme " we use and rely on in making the world intelligible to ourselves . |
| 19 | The arguments put forward can be interesting in themselves , but their drift is often towards making the context of the art shown more understandable . |
| 20 | I remember David had a look of amazement on his face because at this point he had quite a few gold albums , but he still did n't have the money because the rate that they made money went straight back into making the show even bigger and better , and everybody travelled in style . |
| 21 | The magnetizer [ hypnotism was known as ‘ animal magnetism ’ ] — independently of making the passes and of fixing his eye upon her — often takes her hands between his and then draws his fingers over various parts of her body , now over her face , and then over her body and legs , pressing , perhaps his knees against hers , and sometimes applying ( we have seen this done ) his lips to her stomach , and making insufflations upon it . |
| 22 | Anyway I phoned up here before making the journey and they took us round . |
| 23 | Years ago he had made a doll 's house for her ; he had made it beautifully with proper wallpaper in the rooms and a tiny lavatory but he never got around to making the roof or putting hinges on the back . |
| 24 | Mrs Claudio Abado was another who had worked hard towards making the evening a success , but was unable to be present . |
| 25 | In rural Ireland , rituals have been observed for ‘ smooring the fire ’ , preserving the household fire overnight by making the sign of the cross in the ashes and calling upon the spirit of the Virgin Mary to keep the embers alive until morning . |
| 26 | The trouble was , I was terrified to do anything else after making the mistake with Hello-Goodbye . ’ |
| 27 | John McGee was building an extension on to the back of his Middlesbrough home but instead of making the foundations six feet deep , they were just five inches below the surface . |
| 28 | More sink puts him well below the intended glide path , but instead of making the decision to choose a field and look around near it for more lift , he glides on . |
| 29 | They thought it over and only after their first choice , Eli Wallach , announced he would be doing a Broadway play instead of making the film , did they give the part to Sinatra . |
| 30 | Inside the bacterium the D N A of the erm C of the T four bacteria then starts hijacks the cellulum material , like the you saw before , in the cell , and instead of making the things that the cell wants to make , it starts to make bits of the of the T four bacteria . |