Example sentences of "[noun sg] 's [noun sg] make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's his department 's job to make sure the law 's being applied when it comes to fireworks . |
| 2 | The first two parts of the proposal were acceptable as offered , but the motion failed in total because of the President 's unwillingness to make any accommodation of any kind on the third clause despite the amendments . |
| 3 | I would have thought that it is the DoT 's responsibility to make some provision for cyclists on main routes like this . |
| 4 | Baroness Burdett-Coutts lent them £50,000 and the princess 's mother made regular contributions . |
| 5 | Often a tape is purchased , with the hypnotist 's voice making new suggestions such as ‘ you will be relaxed at the start of your next race ’ , or ‘ when you reach the half-way point in the race , you will find new energy ’ or ‘ when you go to the next committee meeting , you will not feel dominated by the others , but will feel free to express your views without fear ’ : the applications of this technique are endless . |
| 6 | views with dismay the failure of the Lord Chancellor 's Department to make any improvements in the payment on account of civil legal aid fees ; |
| 7 | Not only was the chart a perfect picture of a fire with consequences way beyond structural damage , but the repetition of the Queen 's horoscope made clear that this was an event targeted at the heart of the monarchy . |
| 8 | Inevitably , the very fact that someone has decided to try to record the child 's language makes this ideal unattainable . |
| 9 | But in practice , not only did the courts accept Parliament 's power to make new laws , but a legal distinction was made between statutes which declared old law and those which created new law . |
| 10 | Your solicitor also checks with the seller 's solicitor to make sure what items are included in the sale . |
| 11 | The pro-Gamsakhurdia forces , who organized strikes and demonstrations and a media and transportation blockade of the East , were demoralized by their leader 's failure to make further public appearances , and ultimately lacked the necessary firepower to hold out against superior forces . |
| 12 | Outstanding among those contributions are his Math Vab Mathonwy ( 1928 ) and Rhiannon ( 1953 ) which , in spite of some evident shortcomings , particularly a failure on the author 's part to make sufficient use of the comparative method , testify to Gruffydd 's originality of mind , his general perceptiveness , and his clarity of exposition . |
| 13 | The court 's jurisdiction to make joint and several orders against several defendants in respect of the same liability and the same sum was upheld in Schott Kem Ltd v Bentley . |
| 14 | Thus financially and strategically his wife 's claim made good political sense to Henry II , but naturally the present Count of Toulouse was not going to be dispossessed without a fight . |
| 15 | Insensitive handling of this process can result from a misassessment of an elder 's competence to make these shifts , and of the time and energy this takes . |
| 16 | Thus , the observer 's ability to make definite predictions is in effect cut in half . |
| 17 | Her care of the pups was so haphazard that Buddie often fed them milk from a baby 's bottle to make sure they were getting enough nourishment . |
| 18 | They are inter-related and Kennedy 's discussion of bioethics at life 's end makes compelling reading . |
| 19 | The pattern maker 's lathe made fast work of this , the cutter mounted on the cross-slide and wound down the length of the wood . |
| 20 | Indeed the Church 's counter-offensive made common property the most familiar arguments of deists and natural law philosophers in order to refute them . |
| 21 | The Doctor 's conversation made little sense to Blake . |
| 22 | Agbenugba 's inspiration , as his book 's title makes clear , is the original Black British Novel — Samuel Selvon 's 1958 masterwork , The Lonely Londoners , the book that told the real story of Notting Hill in the Fifties ( and was heavily borrowed by Colin MacInnes for his rather more celebrated City Of Spades ) . |
| 23 | It is the broker 's job to make sure the haulier fully understands the small print of the exemption and other clauses . |
| 24 | Aside from protecting depositors against losses , a large capital base will restrain a bank 's impulse to make risky loans to maintain its profits in a depressed market . |
| 25 | The applicant then submitted that a statutory redundancy payment was ‘ pay ’ within article 119 and that on the employer 's default to make that payment the Secretary of State guaranteed the sum under section 106 . |
| 26 | Therefore source A does not reflect the historian 's concern to make informed judgements about the past . |
| 27 | Territorial demands might be made by Arab delegates , but " as an examination of the dispute 's history makes clear , its nature is not territorial . |
| 28 | ‘ She has used my family 's name to make such a horrible attack on the Royal Family and I would like to apologise for that . |