Example sentences of "[adv] make [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a staple of the revenge tragedy as Kyd , Tourneur or Shakespeare conceived it , and plays by Dekker , Lyly , Webster , Ford and Middleton all made use of madness on stage , and of actors specially trained for the parts of madmen . |
| 2 | Thus making use of eqn ( 10.3b ) we have which , for a wave travelling in the z(3) direction , becomes . |
| 3 | Mention has been made to the paperwork , I think that it 's worth reminding ourselves that a lot of the paperwork that has been generated , is a direct result of Conservative government introduced legislation , particularly cri criminal justice er , legislation , which requires a considerable amount of paperwork , erm , to be completed by officers , quite often in long , in longhand , and not making use of technology , where in fact they er , a great deal of time and effort could be con , er could be er , saved . |
| 4 | Yet just to make nonsense of pedantry , I 've often heard keepers calling antlers ‘ horns . ’ |
| 5 | That is , it does not directly make use of information about the length of words , or information about the overall word shape . |
| 6 | The new tariff also made payment of war debts by European countries to the USA more difficult since it prevented them from selling more goods to America than they bought from the new world . |
| 7 | Systems that have employed more contextual information are text recognition systems ( OCR ) which have also made use of error correction techniques . |
| 8 | This assures us that the continued supply is of normal quantities required anyway , but it also makes discontinuation of supply a positive harm rather than a refusal to help . |
| 9 | ‘ Economic and political groups in dominance often make use of majority and minority religious groups and issues for their own ends , ’ participants agreed . |
| 10 | There was a little discussion about the length of time a perfectly made cup of tea ought to be brewed and a little anguish because there was no milk to offer the guests . |
| 11 | For a third distinct trend in progressive rock we can turn to Pink Floyd , known for avant-garde experiments , often making use of collage , electronics and ‘ freeform ’ techniques . |
| 12 | He simply made fun of Piggy 's looks and his ‘ ass-mar ’ . |
| 13 | In the twentieth century , however , presidents had increasingly made use of executive agreements as instruments of foreign policy . |
| 14 | I mean to my mind you might just as well spend your money on , what are you doing idiot , on a well made piece of furniture today like some of those we 've seen in , in |
| 15 | A well made piece of kit that will undoubtedly become more apparent on our banks during the coming seasons . |
| 16 | In the early stages of the internal follow-up review , it was agreed that the proposed hybrid system ( ie making use of microfilm supported by a computer index ) , rather than reduce duplication of documents , would tend to encourage it . |
| 17 | Perhaps you know them over the garden wall to speak to you , you might even know their children by name and you know their christian name , but beyond that I think it 's true to say , even making allowance of generation gaps that you do n't know your neighbours in the same way that you knew your neighbours in London . |
| 18 | He would see loads of young people who are trying to learn how to make sense of life , trying to sort out what is right and what is wrong , trying to understand who they are and how to get on with people around them . |
| 19 | A high specification of housework rules can be seen as a common response to a common problem — the problem being how to make sense of work that is intrinsically unsatisfying under conditions where less and less of it need be done ( through automation , ‘ convenience ’ foods , better housing conditions , etc ) , but where the structural pressures which assign women to the home remain as strong as ever . |
| 20 | Above and right : The home-made filter unit again makes use of planting baskets , and is disguised by the water mill . |
| 21 | ‘ It would be great if we could come up with a way of treating some disorders , we could actually make use of cannabis in some way therapeutically , that would be tremendous . ’ |