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

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1 The greatest rock'n'roll band tag may have been uncomfortable to live with in the past , but this album will not make the title any easier to shift .
2 ‘ You can make the toast too , ’ she said , going into the garden .
3 This is true in theory , but in practice the lack of a grammatical device can make the translation of ‘ the entire conceptual information ’ very difficult indeed .
4 Unless the context specifically demands it , regular reference to information normally left unspecified in a given language will only make the translation awkward and unnatural because it will not reflect normal ways of reporting experience in the target language .
5 Apart from questions of naturalness , accuracy , and the ‘ logic ’ of a text , there are sometimes stylistic considerations which may make the translation of conjunctions particularly difficult .
6 Iranian premier Moussavi 's response was to say that Iran was only too ready to help make the referendum possible .
7 ‘ I 'll put on the light ; it will make the dream seem less real . ’
8 The latter is meant for weaving and , if knitted , will make the garment twist so that one knits a parallelogram instead of a square .
9 If the war is prolonged — which seems probable — it will make the fortune of the restaurateurs .
10 There was no definable shape to the bulge yet — in fact , I could make the bulge nonexistent by drawing in my muscles .
11 I was determined that I would not weep or make the parting harder for him , and I managed to say goodbye taut and dry-eyed .
12 Shale extraction could make the United States self-sufficient in oil for the foreseeable future , thus eliminating dependence on foreign supplies , which has increasingly worried the Pentagon .
13 ‘ ( 1 ) A party to a contract ‘ deals as consumer ’ in relation to another party if — ; ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) … the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption .
14 The mercantile agent then will not confer good title on X under section 2 of the Factors Act if he does not make the contract of sale with X until after he has returned the goods to their true owner , Beverley Acceptances v. Oakley .
15 A party to a contract " deals as a consumer " in relation to another party if — ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , or by section 7 of this Act [ ie other contracts of supply ] the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption .
16 Section 12(1) of UCTA 1977 provides as follows : 12 – ( 1 ) A party to a contract " deals as consumer " in relation to another party if ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , or by section 7 of this Act , the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption .
17 It was argued that this arrangement would make the scheme more popular both with contributors and with advocates of self-help , since contributors would appear to be financing their own benefits , whilst experiencing a form of training in saving .
18 Further work on the index would make the scheme more effective .
19 Let the consumer make the choice .
20 ‘ Then I will make the choice , ’ he rasped .
21 Older people we know want to be offered more ways of preventing illness , so you know , they have to really be informed , er we want them to know about it so then they can make the choice as to whether they take it up with their G P .
22 And er in , within that as you know you can actually er go for er the higher income if he wanted to he could push the income up on the hundred thousand say , we could make the income round about seven percent if we wanted to do .
23 To miss it out would make the treatment itself take far longer , if indeed it is to succeed at all .
24 Patients who had experienced such treatment reported , on average , that small improvements in survival would make the treatment worthwhile .
25 Will he make the puppets dance ?
26 Try a wooden board and , again , use as little water as possible to moisten the gum strip ; too much will make the operation slippery and difficult .
27 Look too , for models with the sort of shelving that allows you to programme the machine to start work hours later and will make the operation a whole lot quieter , and the kinds that have soft food disposal units to prevent blocked drains .
28 Such activities , when successful , will make the pursuit of some ideals of the good easier , and that of others more difficult .
29 I see a set of conclusions that achieve almost everything that was demanded at that time and I am grateful to everybody concerned who 's actually sat down and actually really thought about what we 're trying to do and everybody has made some compromise here and I shall certainly support this amendment and I shall make the compromise because the one thing in here that I thought was necessary that is n't there is the statement that there will be a head of centre and having actually worked in a project , head of sorry , head of project and having actually worked in a situation where I was a joint manager erm in the long run I think people will see the the wisdom of of a single head of project .
30 Alternatively , you could make the screens or shutters easily detachable and have one surface painted or covered in fabric so that you could ring the changes when you felt like it or have different ones for summer and winter .
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