Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] make [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He was , as a bacteriologist , interested in the microbiological aspects , and as an enthusiast for technical methods , in the use of Penicillium extracts to make selective culture media ( i.e. media in which a required organisms will grow readily while unwanted contaminants fail either through lack of an essential nutrient or because something is present which stops them ) .
2 Over and above such day-to-day management , the Church of England has made substantial efforts in recent years to rationalise its portfolio of buildings .
3 Bank of Ireland has made significant cost savings with the introduction of Bank Assistants and it is now time to redistribute some of those savings amongst those who most deserve it .
4 Only the duke of Normandy presumed to make this explicit , allowing his own name to be introduced into the chant after the prayers for the French king , so that the congregation called on the great warrior saints to guarantee the duke 's safety and perpetual peace .
5 E. The merchants of Bristol have made much money from trading .
6 Although in the end William IX of Aquitaine failed to make good his wife 's right of succession to her father in Toulouse , a generation earlier his father Guy Geoffrey had succeeded in annexing Gascony , pleading in justification his father 's marriage with the heiress Prisca .
7 It would seem that the birth of Isaac has made all the difference , and might hold the clue to our question about what has been going on .
8 Despite this reserve , the figure of Oedipus has made much more impact upon the theory of male development than has that of Electra upon female development .
9 The effect of several talks with Les has made these two decide to use their home , their lives and all they have to create a new Rhodesia , a fair society .
10 It took time before Byrnes began to make full use of the American foreign service , let alone to give much thought to working with the British Foreign Office .
11 He had reason to believe , he said , that the Normans in Herefordshire had made good use of the Roman building-materials ready to hand , and there was no reason why others should not do the same .
12 A delegation from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) , was in Singapore to try to make sure it stuck to that pledge .
13 Brownies in Uruguay enjoy making these paper flowers .
14 Successive governments in Britain have made much less attempt to tax wealth than income .
15 One minister for the inner cities in Britain has made this quite clear :
16 Parents in Bicester want to make sure that can only be improved .
17 Archbishop Chrisostomos of Cyprus had warned the governments of Greece and Cyprus against " betraying " the Greek people of Cyprus , and opposition leaders in Greece had made similar statements .
18 Military reports showed the KPNLF offensive launched on Saturday had made quick initial progress , he said , and troops had captured at least 10 government positions and large quantities of weapons .
19 MUSEUM of Berkshire Aviation at Woodley continue to make good progress .
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