Example sentences of "make [noun prp] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relaxed laws make Vegas the home of quickie weddings , although Jackson himself has never had a girlfriend . |
| 2 | We know that another Jewish Egyptian historian of the second century B.C. , Artapanus , made Moses the originator of the Egyptian cult of animals ( Eus . |
| 3 | The inevitable long loose mackintosh and knitted scarf were in evidence , which along with his totally bald head had long made Sammy the victim of local humour . |
| 4 | When in 1574 , Rudolf II made Prague the capital of the Holy Roman Empire , he gave the Jews yet greater security . |
| 5 | We turned down the offer of researching exactly how many men we 'd get to 3,000 feet of urinals , but allowing a couple of feet for each one , 1,500 men would make Wembley the tops for discriminating against women . |
| 6 | THE NEXT Labour government will abandon the ‘ corrupt priorities ’ of the Tories ' education policies and make Britain the brains of Europe , Jack Straw , the party 's education spokesman said yesterday . |
| 7 | It was the Quaker ironmaster Abraham Darby ( q.v. ) who first used this method successfully here in 1709 , and in so doing , he made Coalbrookdale the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and Shropshire — for a time — the centre of the industrial world , with ideal coal deposits at hand to give the area a head start in the production of pig-iron . |
| 8 | Although Cornwall was not the only county where nothing less than 40s. was reckoned as substance , the making of an independent return by each hundred resulted in five sets of officials taking different views of the native poor , the complement of which tapered off from the modest ( 15 per cent ) in the eastern parts to the negligible ( 0.4 per cent ) in the far west , balanced to some extent by aliens , who were classed as poor and accounted for one-eighth of this category , making Penwith the antithesis of East hundred , notwithstanding that many who were subsequently taxed in Kerrier hundred were passed over in 1522 . |
| 9 | A government that believes we are out of recession , but is still making Britain the Taiwan of Europe . |
| 10 | But he says : ‘ I honestly believe we are on the verge of the big breakthrough , promotion to the First Division and making London the headquarters of rugby league in this country . ’ |
| 11 | Marcellus met with opposition from conservative senators , who accused him of making Rome the object of envy , and of corrupting the populace with a taste for leisure and idle chat . |
| 12 | ‘ The Blue Angel ’ is , of course , set in Germany , while Shakespeare , rather surprisingly , made Vienna the scene of ‘ Measure for Measure ’ . |
| 13 | The fame of Peter Abelard had helped to make Paris the centre of the intellectual world of the twelfth century , the Mecca of all students . |
| 14 | Help us Lord , to live a hundred percent for you ; fill us with the Holy Spirit , and help us to make Jesus the centre of our life and work every day , wherever You have called us to be . |
| 15 | This has worked in the past : in 1990 the indignation of the world 's intelligentsia stopped the plan to make Venice the site of Expo 2000 when most Italians had resigned themselves to its being inevitable . |
| 16 | It was not until Ismail became Sultan in 1863 ( soon changed to Khedive ) that there was another major drive towards modernisation , including an attempt to make Cairo the Paris of the East . |
| 17 | When added to the innovative shows regularly staged by the Ikon Gallery and the newly-established Midlands Contemporary Art , which specialises in the work of local artists , this makes Birmingham the equal of any other provincial city in the country as a mecca for art lovers — and potentially much more besides . |