Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adjustment of the relative risks for smoking made little difference . |
| 2 | The price , to a cheetah , of growing larger leg muscles is all the other things that the cheetah could have done with the materials and energy used to make the leg muscles , for instance make more milk for cubs . |
| 3 | It is excessively formalistic to demand this acceptance in writing , for States make binding commitments through other modalities , such as unilateral declarations . |
| 4 | press for action to make sure people do n't waste time or go round in circles |
| 5 | The exceptions are sufficiently rare to be worth a study on their own ; it was quite a challenge for designers to make effective use of a relatively small circular area with a hole in the middle . |
| 6 | But we are looking f for savings to make greater efficiencies and we think we 've found some . |
| 7 | And it would have to rain for months to make any difference . |
| 8 | And levels in some areas are now so low , that it would have to rain for months to make any difference . |
| 9 | The existence of organisms still living after millenia make mere centenarians seem insignificant . |
| 10 | By contrast , the availability of simple , rapid , reliable , and cheap screening tests for syphilis makes this STD amenable to routine antenatal screening . |
| 11 | Is my hon. Friend aware that my constituency is extremely attractive geographically for countries making inward investment in Britain and that it has prospered from such inward investment ? |
| 12 | Clause 13 provides , as a cautionary measure , for the Secretary of State for Scotland to make such orders in relation to a privatised subsidiary in order to safeguard existing pension rights . |
| 13 | Jean Philippe Vernes , of BNP Securities , said although rumours in the French market are sometimes ways for punters to make quick money , some of the current ones are cases of stakebuilding based on the fundamental restructuring of the European financial services industry . |
| 14 | This group of comics makes depressing reading indeed , because there is very little interest shown in scientific/technological reality . |
| 15 | Disabled people 's main aim may be just to create art , but for many the current scale of discrimination makes that goal unreachable . |
| 16 | However , he does indicate that he would not approve of attempts to make ethical debate entirely a rational affair even to the extent that that is possible . |
| 17 | The history of the poor law between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries was one of attempts to make this formula work — for local initiative with broad guidelines laid down centrally — despite social changes . |
| 18 | New ways of printing make unforeseen demands upon an old face , while at the same time giving the typographer scope to design problems away . |
| 19 | By the 1660s all the islands were committed to sugar and the white planters were taking drastic steps to prevent their white employees from leaving the islands and tilting the population balance still further towards the black slaves , but this of course made white employees all the more determined to avoid going to the West Indies . |
| 20 | A third party may of course make diplomatic representations or bring pressure to bear upon a State to perform what it perceives to be that State 's treaty obligations with another State , although such action is likely to be resented as unwarranted interference in external affairs . |
| 21 | We must of course make full allowance for the disappearance of the most important historical sources of the third century B.C. Hieronymus of Cardia is likely to have given a precise account of the Celtic events of 280–275 B.C. Later Phylarchus continued the story . |
| 22 | The merger has been on the cards for some time and of course makes perfect sense . |
| 23 | Under the presidential ruling , industry would no longer be required to give public notice of plans to make minor changes to plant operations which might result in an increase of polluting emissions . |
| 24 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 25 | The low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure . |
| 26 | The incredibly low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure . |
| 27 | That the Board of Review made this assumption appears also from the reference in their first determination to the profits accruing to the taxpayer from the fees derived from the sub-licencing being sourced in the countries to which the sub-licences related . |
| 28 | If such statutory clauses were ever intended to reflect the common law ( and this is not clear ) , the dichotomy drawn within them between the two heads of review makes little sense in light of the expansion of non-statutory review . |
| 29 | The whole process of review makes considerable demands ( Bell 1988:231 ) : the aim is to produce internal school development rather than to provide a mechanism for external accountability . |
| 30 | Unfortunately the statement of Balassa made some years ago still remains true , " there exists no wholly satisfactory way of measuring the effect of a customs union or free trade area on trade flows . |