Example sentences of "make [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The investment they make goes into a fund combining equities , fixed interest and cash . |
| 2 | When they got out they were taken inside a building and made to sit on a stone floor that was gritty and unswept . |
| 3 | Tobie made to sit in a chair and then desisted , because it was inlaid and foreign and breakable . |
| 4 | Many people make do with a cup of coffee which , although it may taste good , does little to support you until lunchtime . |
| 5 | This chapter leaves crucial questions unasked , such as : What sense does it make to talk of a God who is both ‘ in ’ and ‘ out ’ of the world ? |
| 6 | It was raining slightly on the day of inspection , but Willis , who had not been able to lay hands on his waterproof " tile " , but made do with a deep-crowned felt hat , stood on duty under the gap in the weather-boards , while an unsuspecting clerk from the agency showed the rest of the boat . |
| 7 | Instead she made do with a holiday in Cornwall with the kids . |
| 8 | Constanza shelved it by promising to take him to Rome after the war for some slap-up ceremony ; meanwhile they made do before a registrar . |
| 9 | A few days later , on 8 June , the scheme was approved on two conditions : no unit was to be diverted from the essential defence of the British Isles ; and the new force must make do with a minimum of arms . |
| 10 | Later it was even specified that should there be for any reason no foreskin to sever , blood must still be made to flow for a rite to be effected and for the individual to enter the covenant . |
| 11 | If the decision is made to continue with a circuit , use a well-banked turn and monitor the airspeed every few seconds . |
| 12 | Eat natural foods : The human body was made to cope with a diet of nuts , cereals , meat and raw vegetables , not a mixture of cakes , pastries and potato crisps . |
| 13 | If you got into trouble you were made to sit on a chair and look at a wall for twenty-four hours a day . |
| 14 | If a decision is made to proceed with a purchase , then the sequence of events could follow these lines : |
| 15 | This is spectulative but not entirely fictional ; if it can be made to work by a combination of genetic and cellular engineering , it has amazing potential in gastroenterology . |
| 16 | Section 60(2) , for example , has to be made to work in a case where the person entitled to be paid compensation is a beneficiary under a bare trust and not the person who made the deposit . |
| 17 | New recruits of one futures selling bucket shop were made to listen to a tape recording of a " model " sales presentation . |
| 18 | Furthermore a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dress was not made according to a man 's stereotype of how a woman should look , although Laura believed that the covered-up , ‘ floaty ’ look was what men liked . |
| 19 | ‘ Payments will be made according to a formula — even if the parties involved have come to their own amicable agreement . |
| 20 | animal feedstuff to be made according to a specification supplied by the buyer ( see Ashington Piggeries v. Hill ( 1971 H.L. ) ) ; |
| 21 | But in the two decades since this mindless butchery no one has been made to answer for a crime which sent shockwaves far beyond the shores of Ulster . |
| 22 | By applying judgements to the curriculum itself , evaluation by the users of that curriculum can be brought into the classroom , evaluation can be made to serve as a basis for new directions in the process of teaching and learning … it can shape and guide learning and guide decisions within the curriculum process . |
| 23 | ‘ I read somewhere that even if every atom in the universe could be made to function as a flipflop switch in a binary computer , it still would n't be big enough to follow all the possible routes that the universe could create . ’ |
| 24 | He marched back in with his shoes duly laced up , before telling the court : ‘ I have been made to look like a child in a legal institution and take it very badly . ’ |
| 25 | Then again , it is always possible they tokenised the ban a ) because they felt they could get away with it ; b ) because the stars involved are too big to lose ( especially the photogenic Krabbe ) from the firmament of German sport ; c ) because if it could all be made to look like a mistake , world athletics might look that much cleaner ; d ) because they feared a backlash from the disenfranchised trio , in the form of wholesale revelations about the extent of drug use in athletics , both in Germany and all over the world ; and e ) arising perhaps out of D , they do n't feel like visiting a heavy punishment on their own girls , when there are many others the world over who are equally deserving of banishment . |
| 26 | ‘ The funniest request I have had so far is for a birthday cake which is made to look like a plate of steak and chips with cutlery on a tabletop setting . ’ |
| 27 | James Baker , the Chief of Staff , was a natural compro-miser happy to settle for half a loaf as long as it could be made to look like a victory for the president . |
| 28 | At the very least , the assailant may be made to pause for a moment before attacking , and this may be just enough to allow the prey to escape . |
| 29 | However , she could be made to leave with a month 's notice if another licensee agreed to take on a 20-year lease there . |
| 30 | This solves the common law problem where a particular purpose is made known by a consumer to a dealer who may not have had ostensible or actual authority to receive such communication on the part of the financing institution . |