Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] make the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his review for Vanity Fair Pare Lorentz argued that all the minor characters in I am a Fugitive were caricatures and that the film had been spoilt by the director 's decision to make the fugitive a hero and to tell the story through him rather than making the actual prison system the central focus of the film . |
| 2 | In the early evening of 3 September , Gallièni asked Joffre 's permission to make the attack , despite the fact that the Sixth Army was designated specifically for the defence of Paris and nothing else . |
| 3 | Painfully , Mr Hellyer 's mind made the connection . |
| 4 | The line-up for the fourth Grand Slam Finals of the Vauxhall Indoor Tennis Trophy reflects a mixture of old and new , as former champions Queen 's Club make the grade for the fourth time , whilst Royal Berkshire earn a place in the last four for the first time in their debut Trophy season . |
| 5 | Another example is the case of a generalized infection in which a fever is often observed — the result of the body 's attempt to make the environment unsuitable for the invading organism and so rid itself of it . |
| 6 | This deviation from Beveridge 's plan made the scheme expensive to general taxation , and probably tended to prevent the adoption of benefit levels sufficient to provide subsistence incomes to those with no other resources and to inhibit subsequent increases to keep up with the cost of living . |
| 7 | The sealing of Bosnia 's fate makes the people of Kosovo feel vulnerable . |
| 8 | They know little about what they are being asked to invest in , but they do believe that the Government 's determination to make the privatisation succeed will ensure that the water authorities are presented as a steal . |
| 9 | Subtle changes in the beggar 's posture made the stranger feel more at ease . |
| 10 | Olivia , the daughter of the mother who has died , has arrived at her mother 's home to make the funeral arrangements . |
| 11 | She went on seeing Jim , his friend , his appalled good friend , just as before — perhaps even in his own bed , Albert realized , since the shift-work timing of a customs officer 's job made the logistics of adultery comically easy . |
| 12 | I can dimly recall the challenges of testing a router photograph , and using it to create the November 1989 cover , while the picture of Mark Wilkinson 's treehouse made the February 1990 cover one of my favourites , especially as the references to Czechoslovakia and East Germany coincided with the break up of the Eastern Bloc . |
| 13 | The donation is in response to Cambodia 's request for help in restoring its shattered agriculture and reflects the Cambodian government 's desire to make the country self-sufficient in food as quickly as possible , but experts fear any short-term benefits will be outweighed by long-term damage . |
| 14 | Shedding more light on Sun 's desire to make the deal , Ybarra claims that ‘ when Adobe gave Display Postscript to the MIT X Consortium Sun saw a way out of NeWS . ’ |
| 15 | Joe was still careful to keep their meetings secret lest some kind friend wrote about them to Terry , but Maureen and Sarah 's father made the meetings easier for them . |
| 16 | It 's clear enough there how the truth of the soldier 's belief makes the action it causes succeed . |
| 17 | Further , to argue , as Gandhi does , that progress towards ahi sā must have taken place otherwise the human race would have become extinct by now , in the same way as lower species of animal life have become extinct , is to ignore the principle of natural selection , and the fact that more sophisticated weapons of hi sā are now at man 's disposal making the possibility of his self-destruction and extinction more real today than at any time in the past . |
| 18 | It did not contain £3 million but it was , Yarranton said , a token of the Sports Council 's commitment to make the games ‘ a success story for Britain ’ . |
| 19 | Fittipaldi 's victory made the championship score 4– Points to the pretender and 27 to the reigning champion . |
| 20 | Yesterday , Labour 's spokesman made the point that nationalising water was a priority — yet another priority — which would cost £8 billion . |
| 21 | That the original tenant 's obligation to make the deposit is " bound up " with his obligation to perform the tenant 's covenants in the lease is undeniable , but the former is , of course , a once-for-all contractual obligation between the original parties as regards which no question of transfer with the term or with the reversion can arise . |
| 22 | First , illegality in Lord Diplock 's sense makes the process of statutory construction to determine the scope of discretionary power appear ‘ objective ’ or ‘ self-executing ’ in a way which it manifestly is not . |
| 23 | Leland 's firm made the engines , transmissions and steering gear and Cadillac went from building two cars in 1902 to producing 1895 in the year between March 1903 and March 1904 . |
| 24 | This was not how I wished to catch my first sight of the fabled city of Lazarillo de Tormes and of Gil Blas , who in Le Sage 's novel made the journey to Salamanca only from Oviedo in the north . |
| 25 | He chose Ottery as the place in which to found a religious community , and in 1337 obtained the king 's licence to make the church a collegiate foundation , whose members were to include a warden , a minister , a chanter , and eight choral vicars . |
| 26 | Lenin 's approach made the relationship between the Party and the rank and file of the proletariat seem simple . |
| 27 | Bournemouth 0 , Sunderland 1 Gabbiadini 's dash makes the difference . |
| 28 | The son 's arrival makes the tenants think that the owner is dead and that the son has come to claim his inheritance . |
| 29 | The deputy judge , granting the application , rejected the claim by the Treasury Solicitor on behalf of the Crown that section 9(4) of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975excluded the court 's jurisdiction to make the order sought . |
| 30 | The degree of the animal 's impulsion made the movement appear to be both fast and slow at the same time . |