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5 Not only would a list of varieties make a book like this out of date in a short time , it would not help you either .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 .
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