Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | For now , let's begin by jotting down a few ideas for sequences to make a Christmas movie . |
2 | Investors in People is the new national standard for companies making a commitment to training . |
3 | A party of Mormons making a pilgrimage to Salt Lake City or a hydraulics problem on a 737 can thwart the most carefully laid plans . |
4 | They can in a matter of milliseconds make a transition from the liquid state to a ‘ weak solid ’ state with solid-like properties . |
5 | Not only would a list of varieties make a book like this out of date in a short time , it would not help you either . |
6 | It balances the need to protect this picturesque environment with the need of families to make a living and to provide the area with a stable economy . |
7 | This is an approach whereby the leader joins his group of subordinates to make a decision on the basis of consensus or agreement . |
8 | I say fuck this war , in which the defenders of villages make a skirmish and then Army tanks and personnel carriers come in to protect what they have done ’ . |
9 | I add an extension , convert a barn , chop off a couple of wings to make a house a manageable size — that sort of work . |
10 | four days of negotiations to make a deal , always the same amount of time . |
11 | We will use Britain 's six-month tenure of the Presidency of the Community 's Council of Ministers to make a start on the real tasks that lie ahead : building a prosperous and integrated economy ; correcting the democratic deficit , making Europe work for its citizens , not its institutions ; widening the Community 's membership ; and helping to create a peaceful and stable new world order . |
12 | This together with their long continuance in flower , has justly render 'd them the most valuable of all the sorts of flowering shrubs … the great Variety of different Sorts of Roses make a collection of Flowers , either for Basons or in the Garden , without any other additional mixture and their Scent , being the most inoffensive Sweet , is generally esteemed . |
13 | She had been intending for days to make a start on clearing out the cloakroom ; now was the moment — she would make a preliminary survey , set aside what should be kept , see if there was anything good enough for Oxfam . |
14 | For God 's sake , this had been going on for years , with animals making a noise — surely this is what country life is all about and it would be a sad day if there were no noises from the farms or from the back gardens of our cottages . |
15 | Video pictures capable of reproducing flight conditions and any city skyline or airport in the world are projected onto windshields to make a flight seem just like the real thing . |
16 | It 's available in a wide range of thicknesses , including a 3″ thick pond matting which can be chopped into cubes to make a filter media in its own right ; and a carbon impregnated version which will remove impurities . |
17 | Working for patients makes a number of structural and organisational changes — including the appointment of FPC general managers — which are to be welcomed . |
18 | Following a day out by the river , the class were asked in pairs to make a picture or a model of something they had seen or done the previous day . |
19 | Volunteers from Cheltenham Cycle Campaign are putting recycled tarmac onto a path cleared from brambles to make a cycle track . |
20 | It is for lawyers to make a reality of the single market for UK enterprises , wherever in the Community they choose to locate their business activities , or to sell their goods and services . |
21 | At a not-much-reported occasion in north Berwick last Friday night , the right hon. and learned Member for Pentlands made a speech of an accomplished delphic nature in which he said that , if change were to be allowed , independence would be the least advantageous change . |
22 | This has led to researchers making a distinction between central and peripheral information in a scene and the assumption that arousal will impair memory for peripheral details but improve it for central ones ( see particularly Christianson , in press ) . |
23 | ‘ Ninety per cent of the people here rely in some way on coconuts to make a living , ’ said Paternas . |
24 | No one objects to companies making a profit , but not when they freeze out competition . ’ |
25 | The necessity of job retention in healthy profitable industries such as banking and criticism of the failure to deliver on promises made a year ago of ‘ several hundred new jobs ’ were strong themes at the second Biennial Delegate Conference of the Association held in the Burlington Hotel on Saturday , 24th April 1993 . |
26 | It will happen here next year , with huge pressure for wolves to make a comeback in the Scottish forests . |
27 | He painted in various styles and passed them off as originals making a lot of money in the process . |
28 | These superb exhibits created by experts make a visit to EDEN CAMP a wonderful and revealing day out for all the family ( please allow three hours plus for a visit ) . |
29 | The Japanese are fascinated by foreigners making a spectacle of themselves in this way — the natural heirs to the dying tradition of performing street monkeys . |