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

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1 If , for example , a firm were to amend its sales budget half-way through a budget period the personnel responsible for production need to know this amended sales budget so they can plan and make provisions to ensure the products are available for sale .
2 So she kept her eyes closed , humming a little tune to try and make Florence let her milk down faster and barely listening to the sound of voices out in the yard .
3 Mr Raggett says he is interested in finding industrial partners and financial backing to set up companies to sell and make products under licence in the UK .
4 The involvement of members of the Factory enraged Warhol 's gay militant friend Ondine who confronted Morrissey : ‘ How dare you accept the $25 a day in blood money to go and make fun of Andy ?
5 In the final analysis , students and teachers do not have a grasp of linguistic knowledge which is adequate enough for them to evaluate and make judgments about the methods/approaches/techniques which they are encouraged to adopt .
6 It was about time she stopped feeling sorry for herself , the hurt and pain of losing mam would be with her for a long time , but Hari knew she could not let her grief incapacitate her , if she did not mend and make shoes she did not eat .
7 A confused person is still able to learn and make decisions .
8 We have yet to learn how to communicate and make decisions in an electronic environment .
9 Creating a technical structure that allows for a pan-authority electronic mail service is usually as problematic as building the trust and confidence that will allow staff to communicate and make decisions using such a system — let alone remember to log in each day .
10 Erm so really the issue is we have n't made any decisions yet , these are the things we 've got ta try and make decisions on , but we will need to be starting to think them before we get to June .
11 It was pro it was an attempt by an early attempt by the officers of the Greater York technical group to try and make progress .
12 Now the planning application is for Waste Regulation rests with this Authority and I would emphasise that to members here that wh if you 're looking at the sites you must bear in mind that we are the waste Site Planning Application Authority and that you can not go and make progress in any direction without it coming to Committee here and I would hope that officers would bear in mind the sensitivity which has already been mentioned in agenda today but members will find that these applications er are addressed in their own district , in their own divisions .
13 When attempting to communicate in the absence of adequate structure , care should be taken to learn enough about any differentiation to be able to predict the effect it will have and make allowance for it .
14 I want to go and make daisy chains and eat rhubarb pie like we did in that magic , far-away land of childhood …
15 ‘ Let me help you , ’ said Elizabeth to Betty , manifesting a disinclination to sit and make conversation with Lydia .
16 It would still hiss and make noise , but the energy and power were gone ; sometimes it would even shrink and contract within itself .
17 On second thoughts , if he was to try and make sense of the puzzle , he would need them for reference .
18 But Moira says no it 's paperbacks only , insisted on lending us some of those Virgo Books and Woman 's Press and that , you know ‘ I Stand Here Ironing ’ and so on , could n't be bothered to try and make sense of them .
19 Or is there some way in which we can accept and make sense of what we found to be the case ?
20 Sociologists have shown in a variety of bureaucratic and semi-bureaucratic contexts that , beneath the surface of formal rules and procedures , lie structures of informal rules — some of which the participants themselves may not be consciously aware — but which they , nevertheless , use to interpret and make sense of their more formal obligations and duties .
21 Various constructions of people with learning difficulties have existed down the ages as society has attempted to define and make sense of patterns of behaviour which differ from the norm .
22 According to IBM Corp , which is busy trying to salvage and make sense of its core business , we are now to think of the mainframe as the complete server .
23 It is often associated with a group of scholars in the USA known as ethnomethodologists : because they ( — ists ) set out to discover what methods ( — methodolog — ) people ( ethno — ) use to participate in and make sense of interaction .
24 They are basic to the growing subject of computational linguistics , which aims to let computers talk and make sense of human language ; but before that arose , they proved invaluable for computer languages like Basic , Pascal and Prolog .
25 Gilbert , with the edge of terror still in his voice , was talking to keep himself sane ; and the others were listening to try and make sense of the nightmare in which they found themselves .
26 It had never proved satisfactory , and as she grew older she was beginning to recognise and make sense of the repeating pattern , like someone unrolling a flamboyant wallpaper .
27 At the start of the 1980s , it seemed to me that until we knew more about the answers to such questions then it would be hard to compare and make sense out of the varied and possibly conflicting results that were coming from different labs .
28 That was what it had been , what she had felt all along , she accepted a little later when she was in a state to sort and make sense of shocking new knowledge .
29 The advantage of adopting the technique of structured eavesdropping is that the participants use their own terms of reference to discuss and make sense of the topic in question .
30 Teacher in role to challenge , to redirect and make sense of glib responses .
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