Example sentences of "[adv] to make [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet just to make nonsense of pedantry , I 've often heard keepers calling antlers ‘ horns . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the meanwhile , we did not feel it right to make aspects of knowledge about language in the programmes of study ( which will be legally obligatory for every pupil working at levels 5 to 10 ) too extensive or demanding . |