Example sentences of "[pron] makes [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third form of cash costs to Britain of her membership of the EEC is the direct payments she makes into the central budget . |
| 2 | I do regret the waste of his remarkable talents and wonder about the flattering noises he makes towards the Labour Party . |
| 3 | One must mind one 's manners ( and one 's metaphors — tarring with brushes , for instance ! ) when venturing on to the territory that Pound opens up with his reflections on the ethnic mix of the American population , and the distinction that he makes between the older stock ( Eliots and Pounds ) and the relative late-come immigrants ( Williams 's stock on both sides ) . |
| 4 | The functionality of military expenditure resides for structuralists in the contribution it makes to the ideological hegemony of the capitalist system . |
| 5 | Even if inflation can be contained , there remains the question of whether a lower rate of economic growth in the Western world can be sustained in view of the demands which it makes on the limited resources of our planet , especially food and minerals . |
| 6 | But the company insists there will still be a need to build the reservoir and that they would do all they can to minimise the impact it makes on the surrounding countryside when that happens . |
| 7 | It makes at the same time a characteristic noise that sounds like a burp . |