Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] make [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all very well for all the major computer manufacturers to say that all the money is in software and services these days , and that hardware is a commodity business , but if no-one wants to make the hardware , there 's no industry . |
| 2 | If someone wants to make a move on Morgan , the would-be predator will have to move before the Willis Faber meeting . |
| 3 | ‘ Why ? ’ is a useful question when someone has made an error but you want them to diagnose it . |
| 4 | The number of individual insects in the world seems beyond any computation , but someone has made the attempt and concluded that at any one time , there must be something of the order of one thousand million thousand million . |
| 5 | Of the senators involved Bush said : " They ought not to panic and run like a covey of quail because somebody has made an allegation against a man whose word I trust , and who , as I understand it , has n't been fingered by what 's coming out of this process … |
| 6 | PRINCESS Diana — asked by an HIV sufferer why she helped victims of the AIDS virus — said yesterday : ‘ Somebody has to make the public more aware . ’ |
| 7 | 1982 ) ; to describe the Quileute demonstratives one needs to make a distinction between objects visible and not visible to the speaker ( Anderson & Keenan , in press ) ; and so on . |
| 8 | It may sound strange to be pleased to discover that one has made a mistake , but it is , in fact , one of the most exciting things for a social scientist to discover — one really feels that one has found out something that went beyond what one might have expected through ‘ common sense ’ reasoning ! |
| 9 | But the real wonder of pop biopics is that no one has made a movie about Jim Morrison before now ( The Doors opens on March 15 ) . |
| 10 | One can , for example , no longer say that , if one has made an observation of the velocity , then the velocity will be the same one period later . |
| 11 | Ask yourself why , for example , no one has made The Pete Townshend Story , with its denouement in the offices of Faber & Faber publishing , or Jagger ! , complete with barnstorming finale in the pavilion at Lord 's . |
| 12 | In defence of the industries , however , one has to make an allowance for the social costs of policies ( such as maintaining an uneconomic rail service for a community or loss-making plants in areas of high unemployment ) and for decisions on pricing , investment , and employment which are shaped in part by the political calculations of the government of the day . |
| 13 | These are maps showing lines of equal rates of subsidence , though one has to make the assumption that depth of subsidence equals thickness of sediment multiplied by a constant for the type of sediment involved ( to allow for differential compaction ) . |
| 14 | In circumstances like that no one wants to make a mistake and no one is going to take things casually . ’ |
| 15 | Problems arise when there is a mismatch between the models adopted by the teacher and the parent — when , for example , one wants to make a complaint while the other wants to give advice . |
| 16 | Everyone is aware that the Chancellor has a difficult ordeal to face a few hours later and no one wants to make the occasion even worse . |
| 17 | I 've got someone from the village coming in every day to check that no one tries making a nuisance of themselves . |
| 18 | and erm one 's made a nest in this bird box |
| 19 | I guess everybody has to make a living the best way he knows but Zimmerman 's way left a taste in my mouth . |
| 20 | Well if you do everybody tends to make a bit of a fuss about it . |
| 21 | It is like trying to predict the outcome of a game of chess before anyone has made a move . |