Example sentences of "make [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel I must reply to some of the points Mr , Findlay made during the course of the conversation ( I was told that these were not just his views , ie. he had discussed the matter with you ) . |
| 2 | Defeated election candidate Paul Rayner has honoured a pledge he made during the campaign to members of Middlesbrough 's Muslim community by writing to the new Home Secretary with details of long delays experienced by would-be immigrants . |
| 3 | Perhaps even more destructively , the Philharmonic Hall acoustic does not make for the clarity of diction experienced in the average theatre . |
| 4 | I am pleased to tell my hon. Friend that the latest estimate we can make for the spend on computerisation this year will not be £20 million but £25 million . |
| 5 | What a coil do I make for the loss of my punk |
| 6 | When official conservation often does not work , part of the problem may lie in the assumptions which the conservationist , government servant or politician may make about the cause of failure . |
| 7 | What we can glean , though , and what Goody appears to take at face value , is some insight into how they represented themselves , such as in the statements they made about the reliability of their own accounts . |
| 8 | The comments I made about the narrowness of Nicolson Street at the Community Centre was based on observations from Highways to the effect that it would not be possible to fit in a northbound bus lane unless there were only a single southbound lane and no bus stop . |
| 9 | Now the assumption that erm Napoleon made about the future of Europe was Europe with France as the leader and this is an assumption which challenged directly the political integrity of all the other European states . |
| 10 | It 's erm coming back to a point which Mr Curtis made about the amount of land identified in the Greater York study area , which is allocated but does n't have a planning permission . |
| 11 | Er , I think it would be far better to have a streamlined regulatory system which would make the much cheaper and more efficient and I 'm glad that the honourable gentleman seems to be agreeing and perhaps he could try and persuade his honourable mefem member on the front bench that legislation , primary legislation is needed , I 'm glad to hear he 's working on it erm on on the second on the second point he made about the number of regulations , I 'm not sure I would agree with him that the best way of resolving this problem is to have less regulations er er though I would agree with the general er thrust of what he might be saying and that is that if the regulatory system was to concentrate on promoting higher professional standards and have less emphasis on rules and regulations then I think that would help . |
| 12 | ULSTER Unionist MP John Taylor today refused to apologise for controversial remarks he made about the murder of Roman Catholics by loyalists . |
| 13 | No one fully understands the workings of these interlocking systems and we may forgive ourselves for having a sensation of something slipping through our fingers when we try to grasp them — but one thing is certain : the choices we make about the order of the information in discourse reveal our own assumptions about the world and about the people we are trying to communicate with . |
| 14 | Then , ignoring her indignant gasp , he made for the chest of drawers with the clear intention of searching that also . |
| 15 | A snow-covered hedge loomed up ahead of him and he made for the shelter of it . |
| 16 | Signalling the sighting to the Home Fleet in Scapa Flow , he turned his vessel and made for the shelter of a fog bank . |
| 17 | He turned and made for the stern of the boat , and disappeared below . |
| 18 | He also made for the grotto at Stourhead in Wiltshire the figure of a river god which , painted white to resemble marble , glows splendidly in the cavernous gloom . |
| 19 | In recent times gilt has been widely used to create the effect of gold , but during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a fashion in Europe for silver thrones , like that made for the coronation of the Queen of Denmark in 1731 . |
| 20 | He had no sense of give and take ; no idea of the concessions one made for the sake of social comfort . |
| 21 | Given the claims that many alternative therapies make for the treatment of ‘ incurable ’ conditions , many of which are suffered mainly by older people , it is perhaps time for those responsible for the care of older people to investigate the potential of such treatments as homoeopathy , acupuncture , chiropractic , osteopathy , herbalism and many others . |
| 22 | But this , as I have indicated , does not in all cases make for the construction of a more liberal society . |
| 23 | I saw Yet drag himself up , eyes charged with fear , and make for the door to the lower regions . |
| 24 | He watched him move quickly across the alley , and make for the patch of deep shadow under the iron stairs . |
| 25 | ‘ Roads , park , dispensary , institute , and so on — a hundred and twenty thousand pounds ; repairs and upkeep , recurring , four thousand … ’ and so on through all the elements that make for the running of a town , ending with the caution that it was ‘ all very round-figurey . ’ |
| 26 | What can be added , however , is that structural aspects of the world capitalist economy make for the dependency of developing on developed countries — a fact which tends to perpetuate inequalities . |
| 27 | They make for the stairwell with Crilly firmly in hand , blasting upwards like stiff navy rockets . |
| 28 | Of particular importance is the mention of transverse flutes : the inventories of the workshop of Nicolas Hotteterre , Martin 's cousin ( one in 1708 made after the death of his wife and the other in 1727 after his own death ) , do not specify them ; the first reads ‘ hautbois , flutes [ recorders ] , and other imperfect instruments valued together for the sum of 88 livres ’ and the second lists ‘ two dozen of which are fluttes [ sic ] as well as hautbois priced 24 livres ’ . |
| 29 | The German escapement action Stein employed in all the pianos that he made after the piano in the vis-á-vis instrument can be seen as a transformation of the Cristofori-Silbermann piano action . |
| 30 | What will the law make of the output of expert systems when it comes to deciding the authorship and ownership of that output ? |