Example sentences of "[adj] to make [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Punk rock had had a purging effect on pop music ; clearing out the old to make way for the new . |
| 2 | None of this is to deny that the February 1960 agreement was partly a result of Khrushchev 's ‘ allowing Mikoian to make trouble for the Americans in Cuba ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 156 ) , but it is important to recognise that , whatever political considerations were involved , they were firmly backed up by a favourable set of economic circumstances . |
| 3 | Here , in this dungeon we nicknamed the Pit , we were all free to make fun of the guards , in particular Abu Salim , he of clicking fingers fame . |
| 4 | His hands were very full with arrangements for his attack on Normandy , and there must also have been many discussions about the terms on which he would be willing to make peace with the papacy . |
| 5 | As regards television , it was noted that the broadcasting authorities were not willing to make newsfilm of the incidents outside the Grunwick factory available for party use . |
| 6 | By early April Henry , concerned above all to secure his family settlement , was prepared to make restitution to the Poitevins in order to salvage it . |
| 7 | Likewise , they are prepared to make allowance for the fact that certain scientific facts about the world were not known , or for example that the biological relation of woman to man was misunderstood . |
| 8 | It is , of course , very easy to make fun of the parliamentary draftsmen . |
| 9 | All verderers are in future to make answer before the justices in eyre by a single roll of the vert and venison , and are not to have , each one for himself , rolls of the different bailiwicks for production before the Justices . |
| 10 | This is exactly what Benjamin Bevan constructed between 1810 and 1813 , except that some reshaping of the middle and lower side ponds took place in 1898 to make room for the inclined plane embankment , and that some reconditioning of the locks took place between 1908 and 1910 in preparation for re-opening . |
| 11 | Even in better light , it would have been hard to make sense of the look on the stranger 's face , torn between agitation and disgust . |
| 12 | The two Middlesbrough shops in Linthorpe Road and Newton Road were demolished in 1969 to make way for the Cleveland Shopping Centre development . |
| 13 | Skins on the segment and the pith both contain substances called bioflavonoids which enhance the effect of vitamin C , so it 's better to make use of the whole fruits rather than simply pressing them for your breakfast juice . |
| 14 | It therefore seems better to make use of the experience of the data-base community in building large hyper-bases but it can not be pretended that the benefits of one technology to the other are all in one direction . |
| 15 | Why , another member wanted to know , were the speeches of the president often cut short to make way for the programmes which follow ? |
| 16 | Here is a case for ‘ outreach ’ since , if the library is not shown to be hospitable and friendly by librarians going out to the children , the children are unlikely to make contact with the library in any way other than as vandals . |
| 17 | You are unlikely to make headway at the end of the month when discussing important career issues , travel plans or personal matters . |
| 18 | For some the spur may be that it would be more useful to be able to read the health and safety rules of the factory in which they work , or to be able to make sense of the words in the mail order catalogue in which they are required to shop . |
| 19 | He was closely associated with the community at Findhorn , in Scotland , where Dorothy Maclean and , subsequently , several others , were able to make contact with the ‘ devas ’ — higher level beings embodying the essence of a particular species or , in particular cases , of a place . |
| 20 | In the evening a teacher arrived to help me learn the language , and in a few days I was able to make conversation with the island people . |
| 21 | In spring , when the Sun begins to shine , the phytoplankton is able to make use of the newly available nutrients , and flourishes . |
| 22 | If we are able to make use of the track in the way specified I would be extremely grateful if you could let me know what the cost will be . |
| 23 | If we are able to make use of the track in the way specified I would be extremely grateful if you could let me know what the cost will be . |
| 24 | If we are able to make use of the track in the way specified I would be extremely grateful if you could let me know what the cost will be . |
| 25 | I would be very grateful if you could let me know if we are able to make use of the tracks and what the cost would be . |
| 26 | If we are able to make use of the track in the way specified I would be extremely grateful if you could let me know what the cost will be . |
| 27 | I would be extremely grateful if you could let me know if we are able to make use of the track and if so , what the cost would be . |
| 28 | I would be extremely grateful if you could let me know if we are able to make use of the track and if so , what the cost would be . |
| 29 | I would be extremely grateful if you could let me know if we are able to make use of the track and if so , what the cost would be . |
| 30 | I would be extremely grateful if you could let me know if we are able to make use of the track and if so , what the cost would be . |