Example sentences of "[prep] make [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The net assets of companies acquired are incorporated in the consolidated accounts at their fair values to the Group after making provisions for expected reorganisation costs and related gains and losses pending reorganisation . |
| 2 | But none of these models or any others that we are aware of make allowance for possible differences in root turnover rates within an ecosystem type , nor are root turnover rates intrinsically linked to soil temperature . |
| 3 | Since probabilities can be multiplied as well as added , one way of making effects among small probabilities comparable with effects when the probabilities are nearer 0.5 might be to look at ratios rather than differences . |
| 4 | The fact that he is capable of making discs of superlative quality is also in no doubt , as this stunning new Stravinsky disc strikingly bears out . |
| 5 | That they will also feel more confident of making contracts with local authorities and that any fears they may have might be allayed . |
| 6 | And in the particular art of making programmes for preschool children , without being violent or patronising , we have some the finest producers anywhere . |
| 7 | Some matters were easy to spot , for example , the importance of making provision for pre-nursery children if parents were to be actively involved on the premises . |
| 8 | This lays down a general statutory objective of making provision for new or better ways of providing legal services and a wider choice of person providing them , while maintaining the proper and efficient administration of justice . |
| 9 | According to the quantity theory , money is held only for the purpose of making payments for current transactions . |
| 10 | The cost of making materials for nuclear weapons , and the risk of being caught in the act , are the biggest obstacles facing countries tempted to gate-crash the nuclear club . |
| 11 | It is assumed that , whereas the businessman maximizes profit to maximize his personal utility , the bureaucrat maximizes his budget and thereby his salary , perquisites of office , public reputation , power , patronage , ease of managing the bureau and ease of making changes to public policy which he believes to be in the public interest . |
| 12 | In 1709 , when the position of France in the war of the Spanish Succession appeared desperate , the foreign minister himself , the marquis de Torcy , went incognito to The Hague to explore the possibility of making peace on acceptable terms . |
| 13 | His conjecture , then , is just one way of making sense of certain anatomical facts across species , evolutionary hypotheses , and observations of impairments of linguistic functions on the part of human patients who had suffered different sorts of damage to their brains . |
| 14 | Durkheim opened the floodgates and offered what amounted to a radically new way of making sense of social institutions and their inter-relations . |
| 15 | The 1950s was the golden age of interest-group theory in America and if it could " explain " American politics then there was the tempting presumption that it could do the job of making sense of British politics as well . |
| 16 | They have devious ways of making money from bereaved people 's misery , whether by knocking on the door after a death , offering to clear the house for cash , including any objects of value ; or by offering solace in exchange for cash or fees . |
| 17 | Lindblom argues that policy-making under incrementalism takes the form of ‘ partisan mutual adjustment ’ , referring to the practice of making choices among different alternatives not on the basis of a particularly rigourous evaluation of the ‘ best ’ means to achieve a desired ‘ goal ’ . |
| 18 | Do n't pay a large deposit , and be wary of making payment in full before the work is completed ( many retailers will let you hold back up to 10% of costs until you are satisfied with the work ) . |
| 19 | Sir Alfred was in love with the Cosworth idea of making engines for other people , but I felt we had to restore our position in F1 first . |
| 20 | The hypothesis about the importance of making connections between different strategies will be extended to the learning of mathematics , and also to the teaching of children whose intelligence is normal but who have specific difficulties with reading and with mathematics , the hypothesis being that these children fail because they do not make a strong enough connection between different strategies . |
| 21 | In Ireland , Barbara had learned a method of making cheese with unskimmed cow 's milk and when she returned to Ayrshire she introduced the new process . |
| 22 | This report describes the referral patterns of women during pregnancy and the effect this has on the interpretation of perinatal risk ; compares crude perinatal mortality rates between different maternity units ; shows how adjustment for case mix influences the initial rates ; and suggests ways of making analyses of perinatal mortality rates more relevant for evaluating obstetric and neonatal care . |
| 23 | The potential for conflict and the difficulty of making decisions in marginal situations is obvious , especially when the possibility of sanction by your employer , client or Institution is taken into account . |
| 24 | It may have been a stopping-place for drovers — but he could still do Dr Johnson the honour of making lemonade from fresh lemons . |
| 25 | The invention in World War I of the Haber process — a method of making ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen — began the modern era of artificial fertilizers , and thus increased atmospheric pollution by compounds of nitrogen . |
| 26 | In making provision for open space and in considering the location of houses on plots and their relationship to each other local planning authorities should not attempt to prescribe rigid formulae . |
| 27 | The special educational needs should be met as far as possible within the normal educational system , and parental views should be taken into account in making provision for particular children . |
| 28 | Mr. Walker : In making decisions about opencast coal applications , one must consider carefully both the short-term and long-term environmental implications . |
| 29 | 2 Your skill will grow in making decisions in grey areas . |
| 30 | The first point which everybody had overlooked was that Wordsworth hoped ‘ to make money ’ with Lyrical Ballads , and presumably thought that he had gone some way in making concessions to popular taste . |