Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not long after , the Athenians made a peace with the Spartans and their allies for thirty years , giving up Nisaia , Pegai , Troizen and Achaia , their possessions in the Peloponnese ’ ( Thuc. i.115.1 ) . |
| 2 | You said about the hens making a lot , how did how did they work that as an industry with the eggs and things how did they collect and work ? |
| 3 | There was always complaints coming in from the people who lived in the area about the gangs making a noise on the corner . |
| 4 | A word puzzle , or word arrangement , in which the first and last letters of the lines make a word or words . |
| 5 | Aeons ago , the waters must have taken a different path and the men who discovered the cave had chipped away the stalagmites to make a passage into the gallery beyond , the gallery where Melissa and Fernand now stood . |
| 6 | The cook puts together the ingredients to make a salad . |
| 7 | Lord Morton of Henryton commenting on that example said that in each case it would be for the Commissioners to make a finding as to whether the income in question was or was not paid to or for the benefit of the child by virtue or in consequence of the settlement . |
| 8 | The headlights made a tunnel of the trees and rhododendrons . |
| 9 | The Senate Majority Leader , Mr George Mitchell , demanded ‘ full disclosure ’ of the contacts with the Beijing regime , adding that ‘ the visits make a mockery of our profession of concern for human rights ’ . |
| 10 | Lew Grade and his successors put up with them , because the regulators did not prevent the companies making a profit . |
| 11 | Thus in 1428 it suited the Hungarians to make a pact with the Turks , who were then fighting the Venetians in Greece . |
| 12 | This ritualised drama of the conflict between managers and workers probably enables the participants to make a sort of sense of their relatedness . |
| 13 | On November 21 the buyers made a sub-sale of the same cargo at 56s. 9d. per quarter . |
| 14 | In elections to the House of Representatives the Republicans made a gain of 33 seats and managed to defeat four incumbent committee chairmen . |
| 15 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 16 | In even the mildest winter , the situation was desperate enough for those in the workshops to make a form of briquette from any form of rubbish bound by rags — and sometimes wired flex — that would give the slightest measure of heat . |
| 17 | By being slow to drop the rates , the banks make a mockery of the Government 's policy . |
| 18 | The banks make a charge for factoring services . |
| 19 | ‘ It is said in our family that the gods made a mistake the day Fei Yen was born ; that they meant Yin Tsu to have another son . |
| 20 | All of the reviewers of the studies make a distinction between those studies which are scientifically sound and those which are not . |
| 21 | By placing Franco in overall command , the Nationalists made a quantum leap forward in their efforts to secure victory . |
| 22 | STILL admirably sticking to their principles , the Hernandez Brothers recently turned down a very large sum from Warner Brothers for the rights to make a film of the Love And Rockets comic . |
| 23 | Sir : Eurotunnel 's latest revenue forecasts for the first year of the tunnel 's operation are virtually unchanged from the forecasts made a year ago , and the long-term forecasts are up . |
| 24 | The trustees make a capital payment of £65 and this is assessed upon the settlor . |
| 25 | If the trustees make a payment to a beneficiary as an income distribution and the trustees submit trust returns supported by the relevant income tax certificates which detail all sources of trust income arising and payments made to beneficiaries and the trustees pay the additional rate tax chargeable on the UK income of the trust credit can be obtained for income tax suffered by the trustees . |
| 26 | The Trustees made a recommendation to that effect to the Bedfordshire LEA in 1930 which was accepted by the county 's Adult Education Subcommittee as the scheme ‘ had been conducted on sound lines , was distinctly encouraging , that the particular tutor-organiser was exactly the right person required ’ . |
| 27 | But the left still has enough supporters in the unions and the constituencies to make a lot of noise and win some votes . |
| 28 | There must be an intention on the part of the partners to make a profit . |
| 29 | The law should intervene to prevent the deficiencies of a house from severely impairing the ability of the occupants to make a home … |
| 30 | In many volcanic areas the locals make a practice of collecting small samples of lava in this way , and then mould it while still hot into ashtrays , medallions and so on , to sell as souvenirs of the eruption . |