Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] make [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords , I have come to the conclusion that , as a matter of law , there are sound reasons for making a limited modification to the existing rule ( subject to strict safeguards ) unless there are constitutional or practical reasons which outweigh them . |
| 2 | Cocoa powder for making an instant drink was first marketed in about 1830 . |
| 3 | The aim of the financial management initiative is to promote in each department an organization and system in which managers at all levels have : ( a ) a clear view of their objectives and means to assess and , wherever possible , measure outputs or performance in relation to their objectives ; ( b ) well-defined responsibility for making the best use of resources , including a critical scrutiny of output and value for money ; and ( c ) the information ( particularly about costs ) , the training and the access to expert advice that they need to exercise their responsibilities effectively . |
| 4 | well-defined responsibility for making the best use of resources including a critical scrutiny of output and value for money ; and |
| 5 | a system in which managers at all levels have ( a ) a clear view of their objectives ; and means to assess and wherever possible measure outputs and performance in relation to those objectives ; ( b ) well-defined responsibility for making the best use of their resources , including a critical scrutiny of the output and value for money ; and ( c ) the information ( particularly about costs ) , the training and the access to expert advice which they need to exercise their responsibilities effectively . |
| 6 | Facilitation means taking responsibility for making the fundamental changes necessary for true integration , whilst accepting the direction for that change from Disabled people 's own organisations . |
| 7 | SUH KYUNG-WON : a 55-year-old parliamentarian , he is serving a 10-year prison sentence for making an unauthorized visit to North Korea and meeting North Korean officials . |
| 8 | A lot of people hanker after making a big scientific discovery in their spare time . |
| 9 | In the locker room the steel grilles are pasted with letters that say , Thanks for your kindness for making a tough time much easier to bear , and , If it was n't for all of you there at the hospital I do n't know how we would have survived . |
| 10 | Recipes and step-by-step methods for making the various icings and fillings are in the following pages , including fondant , royal and gelatine icing , marzipan , glaze , frosting and buttercream . |
| 11 | Best wishes and thanks for making the old rag worth reading again for a few years … |
| 12 | Notwithstanding this heavy responsibility , Herland was still one of the masters charged with repairs at Winchester Castle , and in 1398 was to impress labour for making a new harbour at Great Yarmouth . |
| 13 | ’ WEU could establish a link between a Europe in the process of unification and an Atlantic Alliance in the process of transformation and thus provide the vehicle for a stronger Europe to contribute more to joint security WEU must be at one and the same time the means of allowing Europe to make its voice heard in a Euro-American dialogue ’ — it must never be forgotten that Europe must always have an input into that dialogue — ’ of which the Atlantic Alliance is the institutional framework and the instrument for making the most of the European contribution to the defence of the West This contribution of Europe is the more essential in that the American military presence on the continent of Europe , reduced since the war in the Gulf , will remain below what it was in the past Defence policy should continue to be made in the organisations which assure collective defence , NATO , and WEU . |
| 14 | There are 5 main methods of making a new issue : |
| 15 | When they had settled themselves in their corner , she showed every indication of making the conversational running : she was chirpy , sparkling — almost too much so , as if tensed up . |
| 16 | Less costly , but not entirely satisfactory , is the practice of making every fourth tankful leaded petrol , which protects the valve seats but rather defeats the object . |
| 17 | MRS THATCHER will fly to Strasbourg for the two-day European summit tonight with no intention of making a conciliatory gesture over the Social Charter or economic integration to lessen the likelihood of Britain being isolated from the development of the rest of the community . |
| 18 | During their visit they took a video camera with the intention of making a short film to show what conditions are really like . |
| 19 | This echoes the statement in their second encounter that he , Porfiry , has no intention of making an immediate arrest because by doing so he would give the murderer somebody to be : ‘ I 'd give him , so to say , a definite position , I 'd give him psychological definition and peace . ’ |
| 20 | The comparison is a little strong , but only with the intention of making an important point . |
| 21 | This is analogous to the 1970 decision of the House of Lords in Bushell v Faith [ 1970 ] 1 All ER 52 , in which a provision about voting rights , which had the effect of making a special resolution incapable of being passed if a particular shareholder or group of shareholders exercised his or their voting rights against a proposed alteration of articles , was held to be enforceable ; an article in terms that no alteration shall be made without the consent of a particular member would be invalid , as it would come into direct conflict with statute law . |
| 22 | He said such an Article was ineffective , " but a provision as to voting rights which has the effect of making a special resolution incapable of being passed if a particular shareholder … exercises his voting rights against a proposed alternation , is not such a provision " . |
| 23 | For some strange optical reason this makes it look bigger than it really is and it has been argued that this illusion would have the effect of making an attacking lion misjudge its leap , striking short of the true position of the prey . |
| 24 | Now it must , I think , be conceded that the language of the enactment here in question is fairly express — express , that is to say , to the effect of making an unlimited and unqualified prohibition , applying to the whole area specified , and affecting everybody — whether British subjects or foreigners . |
| 25 | This had the effect of making the penal system available as a ‘ laboratory ’ for testing positivist principles of correction , as well as for providing the bodies for testing their causal theories . |
| 26 | A semantic relation may be set up either within a sentence or between sentences with the consequence that , when it crosses a sentence boundary , it has the effect of making the two sentences cohere with one another ( Halliday and Hasan 1976 ) . |
| 27 | But , in fact , it is conscious discrimination by policy makers against the unemployed which has had the side effect of making the relative position of pensioners look artificially advantageous . |
| 28 | It is doubtful , though , that clarity of signal alone would justify the expense of making the mobile-phone network digital . |
| 29 | Happily Lyons himself subsequently used the more moderate opposition in making the important suggestion That formulation makes an interesting link between linguistics and phenomenology which more knowledgeable readers might care to pursue . |
| 30 | It comes as no coincidence that Juan , who first pioneered electro in the early '80s as part of Cybertron before making the first Detroit records on Model 500 , took his hiatus from the arena when it had become an overcrowded circus . |