Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] to make the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other officials communicated with the Board of Trade whose President , Lord Halifax , managed during his dozen years in office after 1748 to make the department rather more effective than usual . |
| 2 | By a summons dated 15 March 1991 the third , fourth and fifth defendants ( ‘ the solicitors ’ ) sought an order pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 18 , r. 19 that the amended statement of claim , alternatively that paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim , be struck out as against them on the ground that they disclosed no reasonable cause of action ; alternatively , an order pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 14A that the court had no power under section 6(2) of the Financial Services Act 1986 to make the order sought in paragraph 11 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim and that the court had no power under section 61(1) of the Act of 1986 to make the order sought in paragraph 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim . |
| 3 | In the alternative the summons sought an order that the court had no power under section 6(2) or section 61(1) of the Act of 1986 to make the orders sought in paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer . |
| 4 | On Sunday December 20th at 10pm it signed a letter of intent to make the acquisition in a stock swap valued at roughly $320m for the 95% of USL it does not yet control . |
| 5 | He appeared in all but the initial match of 1919–20 to make the left-back position his own , and then in every one of the 3rd Division championship seasons of 1920–21 . |
| 6 | With intent to make the Love of Gardening more general , and the understanding of it more easy , I have from time to time published Catalogues , containing large Variety of Trees , Plants , Fruits , and Flowers , both Foreign and Domestic , cultivated by me for Sale . ’ |
| 7 | During the first two weeks , it was left to Labour to make the running with its castigation of the ‘ Tories ’ 13 wasted years ’ , and without being challenged on its own appalling record , when last in office . |
| 8 | This was complicated but not necessarily made more difficult by a summer and early autumn dominated by the build-up of the dispute between Italy and Abyssinia , the first issue since 1918 to make the threat of European war vivid to the British people . |