Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] make the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |
| 2 | For visitors interested in making the journey to Bauen by private transport the route could be combined with a trip from Brunnen along the Axenstrasse to Fluelen and Altdorf . |
| 3 | If you want to paint the heads in more natural colours do this before making the figures . |
| 4 | ( 4 ) A change in the " content " or " subject " of the learning experience is justified because it enriches the learning experience or makes these experiences more meaningful and thus more developmental ; i.e. we change content as instrumental in making the processes more effective . |
| 5 | Mrs Boehm told The Art Newspaper that Walter Persegatti , former Treasurer and Secretary General of the Vatican Museums , and now International Coordinator of the Patrons and Friends of the Vatican Museums , was instrumental in making the loan possible . |
| 6 | How are they going to manage to implement this without making the situation any worse ! |
| 7 | You must avoid making drug-taking seem acceptable without making the subject a ‘ no-go ’ area . |
| 8 | He does this by making the labour process , and the shift from Fordism to neo-Fordism , more central to his analysis and by bringing in social and political forces at every stage . |
| 9 | In contrast to the increasing emphasis in child welfare on parental responsibility rather than rights , the Conservatives ' policy since 1980 of making the education system far more responsive to parental demands has involved an extension of parental rights . |
| 10 | She saw the problem as that of making the information implicit in a dictionary explicit , by finding taxonomies , set membership , recognising human nouns , etc . |
| 11 | The dusty furniture of other forgotten rooms was perfect for making the catapult . |
| 12 | If we are serious about making the risks of HIV transmission common knowledge , and I believe we have to be , then we need to ensure that every section of society has full access to the information that is available . |
| 13 | The four British associations each has a vote on the board , with Fifa having four of its own , which gives it the power of veto but guards against the laws being riddled with crackpot theories — such as making the goals bigger . |
| 14 | Lastly , the power vested in the Secretary of State under section 14(4) of the Act of 1988 to dispense with the nationality requirement in the case of one ( or more ) individuals in view of the length of time he has ( or they have ) resided in the United Kingdom and been involved in the fishing industry there , is not such as to make the nationality requirements compatible with the E.E.C . |
| 15 | The party who supplies the infant does so at his peril ; it will not avail him that he did not know that he was dealing with an infant , or that he thought that his position in life was such as to make the goods necessary , or that he did not know that the infant was already sufficiently supplied . |
| 16 | As Churchill said , ‘ if well and truly built , the structure of the United States of Europe will be such as to make the material strength of a single state less important ’ . |
| 17 | Indeed , at a certain point the stories come to seem almost like pauses , moments of reflection perhaps , in a wider discourse that envelopes the written word , such as to make the readers of Celati 's narrative acknowledge something in common with Palomar listening to his blackbirds , uncertain which part of their communication is language , which silence . |
| 18 | Things remained thus for nearly 80 years , and although it became generally recognised that the genus needed to be split-up into several smaller ones , the amount of work required was such as to make the task an almost-impossible proposition , at least for a single revision . |
| 19 | It is important to realise that the complexity of the business carried on by solicitors in partnership is such as to make the adoption of a standard draft risky and unsatisfactory . |
| 20 | That is a duty which he owes to all those who may have occasion to use the article : and it is a duty which is broken at the time when he is negligent in making the article . |
| 21 | So we see the role of government as crucial in making the market work properly , by creating the conditions for success , promoting competition , breaking up monopolies and spreading information . |
| 22 | Contemporary Frankish writers are explicit in making the timing of the battle of Fontenoy dependant on Pippin 's appearance . |
| 23 | Is n't there something suspicious about making the performance of intentional actions the acid test of objective knowledge when it is quite possible that young babies have a very rich knowledge about the unseen existence of objects but that they lack the capacity to co-ordinate this knowledge with their motor skills at object removal ? |
| 24 | Each time it looked as though he was going to make his breakthrough — in 1982 after his Commonwealth dead heat with Allan Wells , or in 1984 after making the Los Angeles Olympic final , or again in 1985 after winning the European Indoor — he just did n't get his act together . |
| 25 | GUIL : I 'm sick of making the running . |
| 26 | It tries to explain how it is that ‘ when you meet a human being , the first distinction you make is , ‘ male or female ? ’ and you are accustomed to making the distinction with unhesitating certainty ’ ( Freud 1933 : 113 ) . |
| 27 | This inevitably makes it hard for us to become accustomed to making the distinction explicitly . |
| 28 | Hacking , though he favoured a more adventurous policy , was indecisive about making the personnel changes required , and preferred a low-key campaign of persuasion . |
| 29 | Flexible waste pipe is useful for making the connection between a trap and the pipe passing through the wall |
| 30 | You and your GP will be involved in making the decision about where you go for treatment . |