Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] to make the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He took the opportunity to make the occasion a sound platform for what he wanted to say about food , farming and cross-border co-operation .
2 But George sees the opportunity to make the hotel great when he receives a booking from TV star , Tony Madoc .
3 Instead of forcing their own decisions on a clearly reluctant public , they offered the public the opportunity to make the choice .
4 Initially Bob was understudy to club skipper Albert Feebury but , when the captain was hurt just before Christmas 1923 , Bob was ready to grasp the opportunity to make the number six shirt his own .
5 Until the European Parliament is strengthened , the events about which the Government and the European separatists most like to complain — those brought about by an interfering and inappropriate Brussels — are likely to continue , because the Government missed the opportunity to make the Community more democratic and accountable .
6 Talk turns to a familiar theme — the failure of the city to support new ideas , the segregation of black and white music , how difficult it is for dance music to get substantial airplay — most of all the struggle to make the rest of the city sit up and take notice of its thriving techno scene .
7 The ability to understand the mistake made by another individual and the willingness to make the effort to correct it have been considered too much for non-human animals , because of the implication of intentionality of behaviour , and of a kind of consciousness .
8 In their Lordship 's judgment , the Guinness Articles permitted only the Board and not a committee of the Board to make the award of a fee to Mr Ward .
9 A float could be on the cards by the end of next year , but before then there could be a few punch-ups with Britain 's farmers who provide all the milk to make the cheese .
10 Students take a broader view and aspire to western brands as ‘ 'part of the future better life ’ but do not have the money to make the transition .
11 We have ordered them in the text to make the normalisation process easier to follow .
12 There 's the old trick of sticking a knitting needle up the stem to make the flower stand up … things like that
13 It will not look at how the decision to make the video is taken or how it fits in with other services the child receives from the SSD , NSPCC , and others .
14 The crowds came and were very well behaved and it appears that the decision to make the event all-ticket was the correct one .
15 It is obvious , however , that the decision to make the banking system responsible for covering such expenditures out of new credits has a major inflationary effect on the economy .
16 The Law Society argues that the cuts are unlawful because they are inconsistent with the purpose of legal aid — ‘ ensuring that people of small and moderate means receive access to proper legal advice , and to justice ’ — and because there was no proper consultation before the decision to make the cuts were taken .
17 On the other hand , Ted McCarty ( Gibson 's president , main designer and the man who did the most work on the nascent Les Paul ) has said that the decision to make the Custom definitely came after the introduction of the gold-top .
18 She gave him the wine and corkscrew and returned to the kitchen to make the salad .
19 She let her breath out and went back to the kitchen to make the tea .
20 It took a few minutes in the kitchen to make the mug of strong chicory coffee to which he added a liberal lacing of brandy .
21 He made the usual inquiries about her health and escaped into the kitchen to make the coffee .
22 And I will read it as farm tenants of Leicestershire county council we wish to retain the freedom to make the decision ourselves as to whether fox hunting with hounds takes place on our land .
23 that people can make their o , they have a balanced education which allows them then to make their own choices about , that things are n't over , I mean if we 've lived in a patriarchal society in which men are in power and that kin , and male sexuality maybe has come through more in sex education , those have been the issues that have been co , ha have been given more importance and female issues have maybe been neglected a little bit and now erm , with Aids as a problem we do n't want to turn out and suddenly become really homo homophobic or really , you know , right condoms , condoms , it has to be you know , you need to kind of keep the balance so that people are given the information and then have the freedom to make the choice themselves .
24 Taking the bark to make the drug kills the tree , and up to 5,000 trees are needed to produce only 2lb of paclitaxel .
25 And the brutal honesty of his observations is sometimes lost in the attempt to make the words themselves beautiful .
26 Before looking at the day-to-day working of the system in London and Birmingham , it is worth pausing to describe the role of the school care committees , for in both cities they were the vital link in the attempt to make the transition an educational rather than an industrial process .
27 You have authorised the agent to make the agreement on your behalf .
28 Venables said that it had been the intention to make the decision public on Shreeves 's return from Bucharest next Thursday .
29 The making of an announcement of the intention to make the Offer ;
30 ‘ We have gone ahead with the investment to make the company grow and there is obviously a relationship between the size of turnover and the numbers of people employed . ’
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