Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] make the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , if the hon. Gentleman had attended the seminar at which I made my remarks last Monday — I greatly regret that he was not there to hear me talk about delegation to the regional arts boards — he would have known that I made the point that if such delegation is fully successful — if the regional arts boards are progressing well — the question whether the five major national companies should continue to be funded by the Arts Council or be funded directly will arise .
2 ‘ And kindly remember that I make the decisions around this place . ’
3 ‘ Take a turn with me , Doctor , and I 'll lay my faith to your scepticism that I make the weir and back before you . ’
4 But I think , my dear Lisa , if you cast your mind back you 'll recall that you made the assumption all by yourself .
5 It is important when testing a cat 's hearing to ensure that you make the noise to check its reactions out of sight of the cat .
6 Er , I am prepared to , that you make the decision on that .
7 The most important thing in socialising is that you make the time and spend the effort to keep those friends that you do have .
8 Erm that 's I mean I would really recommend that you make the time .
9 Geoff Wappett writes : ‘ A great deal was learned by everyone and , should the opportunity occur again , I would recommend that we make the trip again .
10 It is with this approach that we make the Group 's work truly representative .
11 She said that nothing of the sort would ever happen in her country , that the British are quite civilized , thank you , and that they make the rest of the world seem simply barbaric .
12 You can often get them back on track by suggesting that they take turns at riding the tricycle or that they make the Lego building a joint effort .
13 Part of the reason for this is that they make the interpretation of information derived from assessments unproblematical .
14 The reason for their use is that they make the task of interpretation easier for the reader .
15 As we shall see in a moment , one significance of the parallel markets is that they make the Bank 's monetary control operations , at least in principle , more difficult and they do this in at least two ways .
16 Beneficial means that they make the embryo likely to develop into a successful adult , an adult likely to reproduce and pass those very same genes on to future generations .
17 Their profitability must depend on successful technology transfer so that they make the effort to market and sell their wares , they follow up all the awareness campaigns , and they actively seek out clients with the aim of transferring technology in a partnership of mutual benefit .
18 ‘ Last year , ’ said Kāli , as we walked along behind the houses , ‘ Mother and one or two other women started before the forest was officially opened — before ban pasāi — and people were so angry that they made the women 's husbands go to the headman and pay a fine of five rupees each . ’
19 When he changed from an acoustic to an electric guitar so overloaded that it made the windows of the little studios rattle , you could still sometimes hear his feet rapping on the boards and the irregular chord sequences and the trademark himmahimmahimm drifting through the air .
20 Mary Whitehouse denounced it for encouraging in-corridor insurrection , while Russell Knott from the National Association Of Schoolmasters complained that it made the teachers look like twats .
21 I was informed that British Steel would be making a decision on the day that it made the decision — I was informed in confidence some days before that it would be making a decision on that day .
22 This state of human ability was reached centuries ago , but the power of the hierarchy was such that it made the application of reason to religious belief heretical and punishable , and has successfully delayed its application even into this late twentieth century .
23 ‘ The crying was so loud and so wonderful that it made the people astounded unless they had heard it before ’ ; she ‘ made wondrous faces and expressions ’ too .
24 An additional advantage of this method of presentation is that it made the situation less realistic for subjects .
25 On one side is the shattering power of time : This feeling of inevitability becomes so strong that it makes the poem comment on itself in surprised awareness — ‘ Oh fearful meditation ! ’ — and pushes on to an apparently unanswerable climax : ‘ Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back ? / Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid ? ’
26 A final benefit of this highly consistent input impedance is that it makes the choice of interconnecting cables far less significant , relieving this rather contentious subject of much of its ‘ mystery ’ .
27 If , as Anthony Giddens suggests in Central Problems in Social Theory ( 1979 ) , one of the characteristics of ideology is that it makes the present appear natural , then this something else may be the province of ideology .
28 ‘ The meaning of a profession ’ , wrote that great Christian socialist R. H. Tawney , ‘ is that it makes the traitors the exception , not , as they tend to be in industry , the rule . ’
29 The difficulty with this is that it makes the question of A's liability to C turn on what may be a purely technical contravention of the law by A which is of no real concern to C. Further , there are uncertainties in the meaning of ‘ unlawful ’ for this purpose .
30 The main advantage is that it makes the junction much simpler .
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