Example sentences of "[noun] make [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 NIMBUS ( ‘ PRIMA VOCE ’ ) — Nimbus 's ‘ Prima Voce ’ series now numbers some 27 single CDs , two three-CD sets devoted to ‘ Tenors ’ and ‘ Divas ’ plus Charpentier 's Louise and the historic first complete recording of Die Zauberflöte made by Beecham in Berlin in 1937 .
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3 The romantic-lyrical ballad style of twentieth-century Tin Pan Alley clings stubbornly to its role in the representation of gender relations within the norms set by the stereotype of the bourgeois couple , despite attempts made from time to time to move it into new patterns with new meanings .
4 Lady Hamilton ( 1941 , That Hamilton Woman in US ) , which Korda made in America with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier , works most of the time as a love story , but the messages that constantly obtrude about men whose ‘ insane ambition ’ makes them want to destroy what others had built are not organic to the main narrative .
5 In a more explicitly theoretical paper , Lavandera ( 1982 ) presents the general argument that syntactic variation can be studied only at a superficial level if the analytic method does not take account of the use which speakers make of variation for stylistic and discourse purposes ; frequently they exploit subtle differences in meaning of the kind which ( for example ) Weiner and Labov deliberately simplify .
6 The accommodation model deals with the adjustments which speakers make with respect to each other in a particular encounter , but it can not explain the " base line " of behaviour which each individual brings to that encounter , i.e. the speaker 's own norm , which is itself somehow related to the community 's norm .
7 He rapidly became one of the prince 's closest friends , accompanying him on his crusade of 1270–2 and appearing as one of his executors in the will which Edward made at Acre in June 1272 .
8 Back-bench revolts are not unknown , e.g. the Shops Bill in 1986 , and many government sponsored amendments represent concessions made by Government to its own supporters .
9 The This Week programme made with Friends of the Earth centres on MPL , but a report claims many other companies were involved in defrauding the Ghanaian economy of a total of £30m by taking advantage of aid opportunities in its timber industry .
10 The This Week TV programme made in conjunction with Friends of the Earth accused MPL of misusing a £20m loan to rehabilitate a struggling state-owned timber company , African Timber and Plywood ( Ghana ) Ltd .
11 Within this framework , Lyons ' emphasis on the particular demands made on English by its international functions might provide some partial explanation for its greater use of paralinguistic features rather than grammatical ones for indicating status , although more comparative and historical research would be necessary .
12 In some cases , however , the exigencies of timetabling for examinations and the demands made on students by applications for courses of further study can reduce the effective time available to the one-year foundation courses to as little as twenty or twenty-four weeks .
13 Mr MacGregor said that he would delay introducing the scheme because of the demands made on teachers by other educational reforms .
14 To ‘ walk in God 's ways ’ reflects all the demands made on Israel by Yahweh , the personal God of the Old Testament .
15 Increasing and conflicting demands made on funds for NHS use tends to focus media interest on the service 's shortcomings rather than its strengths .
16 The ICJ also sought to clarify the demands made of Libya in Resolution 731 by referring back ( as did Resolution 748 ) to the joint declaration issued on Nov. 27 , 1991 , by the UK and US governments .
17 Equally unrealistic are the demands made by syllabuses on teachers .
18 The demands made by terminals on channels and lines are very unlikely to exceed their capacity .
19 This represented a considerable revision of the 4.75 per cent prediction made by Keating in February 1992 .
20 With such complacency , it would be an abrogation of our duty to allow two commercial companies to ruin a major industry and its jobs and to wipe out a multi-billion pound investment made on behalf of taxpayers .
21 ‘ We beat off intense competition to win and one of the reasons we did was because of the high level of investment made in equipment by NOS . ’
22 Employers also try to discourage the mobility of their highly skilled labour because they wish to retrieve the investment made in training over the long term , and they certainly would not want competing firms to poach labour that they have trained .
23 And the imaginative touch extends to containers … you 'll find flowers stuffed into hiking boots , shopping baskets … and Tricia 's own invention … lollipops made from lampshades on posts .
24 More reassuringly , there is an evocative collection of old toys in the nursery , including a rocking horse made by Ayres in the 1890s .
25 However , having said that , there is some support for the submission made on behalf of the appellants in this regard , and that is to be found in the letter of 10 October 1989 which was written to them , following that hearing , by their solicitor .
26 May L.J. , at p. 41 , refers to a submission made by counsel for the prosecution that Nolan J. 's reference to ‘ the alternatives ’ was a reference to a choice between breath on the one hand and blood or urine on the other hand and not to a choice between blood and urine .
27 An intuition that this is indeed so may be very difficult to substantiate if the attributions made by members of the dominant society are very loud and very visible , and those of the members of the microsociety hard to come by , perhaps because those members are not easy to contact .
28 The authors explore the idea that causal attributions made by survivors about their experience are an important mediating variable .
29 The section relates to any instrument that : ( i ) is executed in pursuance of an order of a court made on granting in respect of the parties a decree of divorce , nullity of marriage or judicial separation , or ( ii ) is executed in pursuance of an order of a court which is made in connection with the dissolution or annulment of the marriage or the parties ' judicial separation and which is made at any time after the granting of such a decree , or ( iii ) is executed at any time in pursuance of an agreement of the parties made in contemplation of or otherwise in connection with the dissolution or annulment of the marriage or their judicial separation .
30 The limited steps made by women towards more equal treatment in the provision of state earnings-related pensions were therefore reversed by the 1986 Act .
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