Example sentences of "[noun sg] of make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visit will include a brief history of the forge and a live demonstration of making decorative items such as rams ' heads and owls for pokers and intricate scroll work , using traditional techniques . |
| 2 | To complete this bitter emotional brew there is anxiety : that feeling of dread or agitation on waking up in the mornings ; stammering and blushing ; fear of making another fool of yourself , or of your last mistake being uncovered . |
| 3 | ‘ I think there has always been a slight fear of making massive steps on our own , ’ says Gedge . |
| 4 | They were acquitted at the Old Bailey of making illegal exports , after saying the Government knew the company was doing business with Saddam Hussein . |
| 5 | A subsidiary aim of the project is to make available for discussion the methodology of making sociological inferences from such texts . |
| 6 | Under the guise of making American industry more internationally competitive , Congress has become ever laxer in its attitude to collusion . |
| 7 | It is impossible , for instance , to fully imitate the practice of making political speeches that analyse , summarise and comment upon a social situation without also developing the abstract skills that such practice entails . |
| 8 | The court held that the practice of making first offers of work to a selected group of people who had declared themselves available , and the practice of declaring oneself available to ensure that such offers would be made , whilst an arrangement " of mutual advantage " to the parties , was not one involving contractual commitments or mutual obligation . |
| 9 | In some countries promissory notes are also used , as is the practice of making several settlements for a single invoice . |
| 10 | In late 1991 , the Asylum Bill was introduced into parliament as a Home Office initiative with the intention of making various aspects of the asylumapplication process more difficult . |
| 11 | The Action Programme declares the Commissioner 's intention of making maximum use of contributions made by the Foundation whose work programmes have already included issues such as hazardous wastes , contaminated land , and voluntary initiatives in the environment . ’ |
| 12 | Fabia was ready for him this time , though , and had no intention of making another mistake , like the one she had made about her job . |
| 13 | Charges in the NHS have the effect of making private health care relatively more attractive . |
| 14 | Back in the 1930s two doctors by the names of Morin and Bachrach discovered to their surprise that the note of E of the fourth octave had the effect of making young cats defecate and adult ones become sexually excited . |
| 15 | This has had the effect of making local authority housing even more subject to central scrutiny , and the current system of central government constraints has severely limited new council house provision in rural areas since 1980 , particularly as the new proposals may see more expensive building in rural areas as inappropriate . |
| 16 | The Old Testament prophets knew the impossibility of making any impression on those who were stiff-necked and hard of heart ( Isa. 6:9 , 10 ; 29:10 ) . |
| 17 | A practitioner 's assessment of other artists ' work , often in the light of making similar attempts , can make intriguing reading . |
| 18 | The extra expense of making these sections is offset by their versatility : an uncovered DPT can be used for several different analytical purposes , and offers much more petrographic information . |
| 19 | There is even talk of making big city departments tender for work ( a few tiny ones do it already ) against bids from commercial competitors . |
| 20 | There has been a continuing move in the direction of making economic theory mathematically and logically more rigorous and developing statistical methods to test and measure theory using what data is available . |
| 21 | This has the double advantage of making available notes between the bottom note E in the seventh position of the B flat tenor trombone and the fundamental B flat and also providing shifts alternative to those found awkward among higher harmonics . |
| 22 | When Sikh men came to Britain in the fifties it was with the hope of making some money ( usually to buy more land for the family farm ) and returning . |
| 23 | The sort of questions your adviser will ask are : whether you are investing for income now or capital growth in the future ; whether you need to go for absolute security with every penny you have or whether you can afford slightly more risky investments in the hope of making more money in the long run ; what other sources of income you have , or might expect to receive . |
| 24 | Following the flooding of RFK Stadium , the Washington Redskins have given up all hope of making another Superbowl — but the city 's new Red Herrings are an increasingly powerful force in major league water-polo . |
| 25 | They began a long march back to Capel Curig with no hope of making closing time — when a touring couple took pity and gave them a lift straight to the pub . |
| 26 | The legislature has the function of making new law or amending or repealing existing law . |
| 27 | I had the privilege of making three recordings with her : the Mozart Requiem for Virgin and Britten 's Spring Symphony and Elgar 's Apostles for Chandos . |
| 28 | Owen Barfield , both in conversation and in writing , had already gone a long way in revealing to Lewis the fallacy of making sharp distinctions between ‘ myth ’ and ‘ fact ’ . |
| 29 | Rather than take the easy route of making populist entertainment , she is now doing all she can — even press interviews — to persuade the audience to come to her . |
| 30 | The benefit of making other services incompatible is speculative . |