Example sentences of "make the [det] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Again , the TUC General Council made the same accusation when it met the Beveridge Committee seventeen years later : F.H .
2 Malcolm Smith , who runs the noted Jencra herd at Stoke on Trent , paid 7,500gn for Jim Goldie 's 17-month-old Epatant son , Goldie 's Globetrotter , while the suitably named Goldie 's Goldmine , another by the same sire , made the same amount when it sold in a private deal to David Dick of Mains of Throsk , Stirling , and Archie McGregor , Allanfauld , Kilsyth , after being turned out of the ring unsold at 7,200gn .
3 One who did made the same point as many arts students :
4 Nye ( 1984 ) made the same point when he observed that the agenda for examining the power of US firms in the 1980s was little different from that of the early 1970s , despite the relative loss of US power .
5 The resistance of Ulster was also linked to its business roots with such slogans as " Industrial Ulster is united " or " They mean business " , and Law made the same point when he described in Norwich a recent meeting that he had addressed in the Ulster Hall :
6 So he knows — we know — we thought we knew , though of course we may be wrong — that you should n't make the same mistake as he did , going into acting . ’
7 I like to think I 've been helpful to somebody else , so that they do n't make the same mistake as I made , or so that they know the responsibilities they 're taking on if they do have the baby .
8 Can I make the same point as well please ?
9 That is , he will not make the same judgements as he would make if he were viewing the scene itself .
10 The right hon. Member for Hertsmere blew the whistle on his colleagues when he disarmingly said that , when he privatised electricity , he would not make the same cock-up as they had done with British Telecom and British Gas .
11 Now , with sales of around 2,600 cars a year , we could actually make the same profits as we did in 1990 with 3,300 sales . ’
12 Walter Luff did not make the same mistakes as his predecessor , and paralleled the extensive improvements on the tramway by a redevelopment office of the bus system , including the sacrifice of two heavily-trafficked tram routes to bus operation .
13 I know I 've made a lot of mistakes and there are probably a lot of things I should be sorry about but I would n't change my life , I would make the same mistakes because they 've taught me so much .
14 The nearest human equivalent to purring is smiling , and we also make the same mistake when we say that a smiling man is a happy man .
15 In the end , they make the same decision as most others and decide to go ahead and have children , and to try to reconcile this with their material aspirations .
16 She realized that she might have made the same mistake as Joan Durbeyfield .
17 I 've been I 've been advised chair that I 've made the same mistake as you did so .
18 Subject to the letter , from the Crown Prosecution Service of 23 October , to which I shall hereafter refer , I would ( subject also to my procedural misgivings ) have made the same order as Wright J. made and the Court of Appeal affirmed and I would have sympathised with the observation of Neill L.J .
19 ‘ In a subsequent editorial the newspaper fiercely attacked the CPS decision … and questioned whether the CPS would have made the same decision if the woman had been a black girl caught in exactly the same way on Broadwater Farm .
20 So perhaps they would have made the same mistakes as well. , He believes his most serious mistake was wanting to get things done in a hurry .
21 As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang , but neither has made the same impact as yet .
22 By trying to reform finance without simultaneously considering local government 's powers , boundaries and responsibilities we are making the same mistake as we made then .
23 Mr Knapp said he hoped British Rail would recognise the anger among its 130,000 workers , but added : ‘ The board is in danger of making the same mistake as in 1989 of underestimating the mood of its workforce . ’
24 Still staring up at him , she tried to discover if he was making the same connections as herself , but his face gave absolutely nothing away , and yet , when he 'd first opened the door , she 'd thought he 'd looked disappointed .
25 One believes they are making the same mistakes as the oil companies made — ‘ giving away the product in the hope of buying customers ’ .
26 Shakespeare is making the same point as Donne — ‘ Love 's not so pure , and abstract , as they use/To say , which have no mistress but their muse ’ — as he has done obliquely in Venus and Adonis with the picture of the horse exuding desire ( 259–324 ) .
27 Not that I have to make the same choices as someone I acknowledge to be more discriminating , since my differently constituted palate may react differently , but my own choice will be better informed if I heed nuances which I would have missed if he had not pointed them out .
28 As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year .
29 SIR — As a convicted British tribalist , Scottish branch , may I urge the new Government of Great Britain not to make the same mistake as the British tribalists , English branch , who failed for so long to find a use for County Hall in London after Livingstone et al.
30 I was n't going to make the same mistake as my parents , forever denying themselves what they wanted now so that they could look forward to their retirement with complete peace of mind .
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