Example sentences of "to make [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he was knocking himself off , I was preparing to make my introductions to the sidewalk . |
| 2 | It will probably be understood that I wish to make my remarks in the context of the Scottish agricultural scene . |
| 3 | Well I think that it must be recognised that the current state of demand and supply is going to make it very difficult for most applicants , and we would be concerned to advise them not to panic unduly as a result of that , and to make their choices on the sort of rational criteria that would apply in any year . |
| 4 | The Chinese tended to make their kites in the outlined shapes of either fish such as the blue or red card or as birds such as the stuffed owls and vultures shown here . |
| 5 | Alan Calladine said : ‘ We are confident that this shop will be a success with its appealing range of gifts , toys and souvenirs and we hope that the people of Ripley and those shopping in Ripley will find it more convenient to make their bookings for the centre 's special services than Butterley Station . ’ |
| 6 | The best way to create jobs in the telecommunications industry is through liberalisation , our duopoly review , opening up the market , allowing the new products to come through and allowing customers to make their decisions in the marketplace . |
| 7 | Most target companies are likely to make their purchases through the market ; however , where a significant shareholder wishes to dispose of his holding , an off-market purchase may be made to prevent the shares falling into the hands of a predator . |
| 8 | I am informed that local authorities currently have to make their requests through the police . |
| 9 | ( And the western Greeks tended to make their dedications at the nearest of the Greek sanctuaries of the mainland , Olympia , rather than creating or patronizing a big cult centre of their own , ) Fifth-century Italy and Sicily did produce historians , like Hippys of Rhegion , or Antiochus and Philistus of Syracuse , the ‘ Sicilian Herodotus and the Sicilian Thucydides ’ ; even Dionysius I , tyrant of Syracuse from the late fifth century to 367 , wrote history as well as the tragedies and comedies for which he was , as we shall see , more famous . |
| 10 | Even now , when the boys responsible had become young men and gone off to make their ways in the world . |
| 11 | It is interesting to analyze why individuals choose to make their careers in the Middle East . |
| 12 | Such a condition was obviously inserted to encourage Cornishmen to make their contributions to the royal coffers , but its enforcement against individual landowners would appear to have been impracticable once disafforestment had taken place . |
| 13 | In the ninth century the monks ( who lived on the south side ) built the more southerly of the two towers which still adorn the church , and from this tower the bells summoned the faithful to attend their masses and to make their contributions to the monks ' support . |
| 14 | According to a report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Feb. 21 , these would involve a sharp reduction in Soviet aid ( to around US$110 million ) and would require Vietnam to make its purchases from the Soviet Union in hard currency at prices determined by international market rates . |
| 15 | SunSoft Inc borrowed the laid-back format of the Tonight Show and Johnny Carson — down to the band , the couch and the jokes — to make its announcements at the end of last month : it would be a shame if those well-crafted anti-Microsoft Corp anti-NT ads they ran as ersatz commercials during the breaks do n't get a wider airing , if for nothing more than their amusement value . |
| 16 | And Grainne , who had her own might-have-beens , understood , and tried to make her stories of the Bright Palace interesting and amusing , and tried to minimise the rigours and the heartaches of exile on Innisfree . |
| 17 | With Speed pushing right up and supporting the 2 forward … would enable him to make his runs into the box , also get on both flanks to cross , or get on the end of Wallace crosses … |
| 18 | Robespierre had to make his speeches in the Jacobin Club , as he was not eligible for election to the Assembly . |
| 19 | Sweet used the best figures available to make his calculations on the issue , which he said was clouded by " disinformation " . |
| 20 | But we ca n't do that because we have to make our tiles in the way that 's most . |
| 21 | Moreover the control of these emotions and their congruence with other more benign feelings , such as love and sympathy and joy in living , require the exercise of our minds , not only for the calculation of the technical means to achieve our chosen objectives , but for the formulation of the terms in which we describe the world we think we live in , and the reality within which we have to make our choices concerning the use of force . |
| 22 | We had been warned first to make our obeisances to the dead king before we even acknowledged his long-suffering queen . |
| 23 | They are beyond the visible spectrum but we do not have to make our observations with the naked eye and there are ways in which y-rays can be detected to form an image pattern . |
| 24 | Events having turned out better than we expected , we returned to make our plans for the following Sunday when we intended to open . |
| 25 | ‘ Managed to make us products of the late twentieth century somehow feel like eighteenth-century fops . |