Example sentences of "and [verb] make [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrows occur at the corners of polygons and tend to make the sides seem concave . |
| 2 | Labour tried and failed to make the election a referendum on these changes . |
| 3 | Even so , he was defeated in the City parliamentary election of 1734 and failed to make the opposition slate in 1740–1 . |
| 4 | A weight can be tied to the bar by a piece of rope and then raised and lowered to make the exercise more difficult . |
| 5 | The manufacture of a five-pronged manual implement for manual digging results in a fork even if the manufacturer , unfamiliar with the English language , insists that he intended to make and has made a spade . |
| 6 | Now in sporting legend the All Blacks take some beating … but when it comes to the greatest in any sport … there 's just one name … that 's Muhammed Ali … he 's over here at the moment and has made a surprise call on an Oxfordshire man reckoned to be his number one fan . |
| 7 | Age Concern England has urged the Government to monitor more closely the provision by health authorities of continuing care , and has made a number of recommendations about how this might be done . |
| 8 | Although only halfway through her first effort ( based , oh dear , on a dream ) she already has an agent and has made the shortlist of a first-time fiction writers ' competition , the Ian St James Awards , for a story drawn from the book . |
| 9 | In many of these different regions the native stone has given character and fitness to the buildings ; the wide variety of stones , together with the frequent use of wood and brick and thatch , especially in the stoneless areas , has added charm to English village and towns , and has made the dwellings , particularly the smaller cottages ( for stones for churches and large houses were carried for many miles even in early times ) , ideally suited to their surroundings . |
| 10 | It is , therefore , proven that a combi-steaner is not only an advantage in the commercial kitchen , but an essential ingredient designed and built to make the chef 's life easier and to realise dramatic savings so that it quickly pays for itself . |
| 11 | The Cleansing Department are aware of this and suggest making a phone call to the department who will arrange to uplift the pet and remove it . |
| 12 | These are the most frequently used records and involve making a mark every time a specified behaviour is witnessed . |
| 13 | Later these will be replaced by annual bedding plants and wildflowers to make a tapestry of colour throughout the summer until the Floriade closes in the autumn . |
| 14 | Really , I moved into a building site and tried to make a life while work was in progress ! |
| 15 | The prison chaplain came to me in my cell and tried to make a bargain with me . |
| 16 | When the office lifers came the next day and tried to make the computer come up with some figures they wanted , what it printed out was this poet 's poetry instead . |
| 17 | She screamed for her brother and tried to make the boys understand that she was the daughter of the house , but her pleas did not register in their drugged minds . |
| 18 | The Chancellor , Kenneth Clarke , declared in his Mansion House speech that he ‘ should like to be remembered as a Chancellor who helped British industry and British commerce through another difficult period and helped to make a difference to the wealth creating capacity of the nation . ’ |
| 19 | But it admits that Adobe technology is often the default standard , and wants to make the technology available within NewsPrint . |
| 20 | Section 34(2) provides for the application to be made by the authority or the child and the question has been raised whether the child , in that context , means the child himself if he is of sufficient age and understanding to make the application . |
| 21 | It was strange how good and bad could run into each other , could appear as interchangeable : not the good of succouring the sick , nor the bad of shooting the helpless , but in the subtler regions of morality where things blended together and seemed to make the business of living easier . |
| 22 | Few people have it , but as there are comparatively few copywriter positions in London , you ca n't just waltz in and expect to make a mark . |
| 23 | The music business has some straightforward , honest , ‘ invest some money and hope to make a profit ’ entrepreneurs . |
| 24 | T-H-R claim to be following several leads , and hope to make an arrest soon . |
| 25 | Having done so , Sykes took down his rod and prepared to make a dash for it , when through the storm he noticed two small boys . |
| 26 | When Richard Branson took over negotiations from Fields in March , Wilson and a team of Boeing executives and lawyers flew to Britain , installed themselves in the Carlton Towers hotel in Knightsbridge and prepared to make a killing . |
| 27 | The idea of proceeding the other way round — discovering what we do well , and whole-heartedly , and contriving to make a living by it — seldom occurs . |
| 28 | It 's about being young and terribly embarrassed and wanting to make an impression but not knowing what it is . |
| 29 | While some training is aimed at specific jobs , some is planned in the hope that jobs will become available and to help make the area more attractive to firms planning to move by having better trained people . |
| 30 | Although I denied being ill and scorned to make the demands for attention usually employed by invalids or malingerers , there is no doubt that I was by this time making a bid for power . |