Example sentences of "make [adv] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Marius Steen made over his three houses and about 75 per cent of his other assets to his son some years ago .
2 Sharemarket also operates a unit trust discount service for investors who have made up their own minds .
3 Jane Bywaters , who has been responsible for much of the exhibition , said : ‘ We need to give people information so that they can make up their own minds about food and not be dictated to by the media and media events . ’
4 I explained that the meeting could elect anything it wished so long as it understood that the ‘ original organisers , … would make up their own minds what status , if any , to accord those elected .
5 Business units can make up their own minds about the implications of economic factors on their own operations ; the corporate planning departments are more interested in determining how vulnerable each business unit is to different economic environments .
6 His view is that consumers should be told the whole truth : ‘ If the public wants fish fingers made up of minced fish that 's OK , so long as they are told and can make up their own minds .
7 ‘ But we 've come to the conclusion that since not everybody 's ready for it , we 'd better start packaging some of our most popular strings both ways — individually in sixes , and collectively in one packet — and let players make up their own minds .
8 Even young people have ideas and can make up their own minds , and he did n't want to tell us what he thought we should do because it was our lives and he realised that . ’
9 A big issue has been made out of the racism allegations , which I think people will make up their own minds about , but no-one 's made a big issue out of the fact that a lot of people are getting ripped off here . ’
10 But this shows only that International Relations has become an American dominated discipline , and readers should firmly make up their own minds about the best way to understand and explain the international scene .
11 McIntyre says that ‘ the books ’ one and only aim is to help people make up their own minds about war and society based on a neglected primary source ’ , and in this he succeeds brilliantly .
12 There is little to see , and users must make up their own minds on whether it covers their needs , rather than relying on the opinions of others .
13 Chairman , it 's always been this Committee 's policy over the twenty years , the twenty odd years that I 've been here , back here ru runner , that erm , so far as the food side is concerned , er , we should be , our policy should be based on the information , the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth , and letting people make up their own minds .
14 So , as far as the , the erm , erm , report is concerned er , if I 've got to make a recommendation , because obviously people have got different views on this one , it would be in fact that we go for total er , information so that people can make up their own minds , and if , and it might be wrong , but they can exercise their own prejudices .
15 I think people can do as they please and they can make up their own minds but I just do n't think that all , everyone else should be like advertising the fact
16 ‘ I can make up your undoubted losses ! ’
17 Why do the powers that be refuse to supply dental dams on the same basis as condoms are supplied , so that we can make up our own minds as to the suitability or otherwise of the dams ?
18 Do n't let them stampede us into anything , we 'll make up our own minds .
19 Seven others made up their own minds , but the remaining 11 simply voted as their parents instructed , or their parents voted for them .
20 So I said they could look at it as long as they made up their own minds and I was n't involved .
21 Real gravitons make up what classical physicists would call gravitational waves , which are very weak-and so difficult to detect that they have never yet been observed .
22 They can then absorb the literature in their own time and make up their own minds .
23 In some Companies , Guides make up their own names for Patrols and then embroider their own Patrol emblems .
24 In your mob you make up your own rules , you ca n't deny that ! ’
25 Make up your own movements .
26 Well there you are make up your own minds .
27 The brothers ' room was dim and shadowed ; she made out their two shapes with difficulty .
28 His denunciations and his shouting made even his staunchest admirers wonder sometimes whether it might not be better to change their allegiance to the calmer Dr McNab .
29 She had a fistful of tiny flowers , and made me wait patiently while she described them all , making up her own names when she forgot or had never learned the real ones .
30 The only difficulty is that thespians are not , on the whole , accustomed to making up their own lines .
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