Example sentences of "to make [pron] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a broad , vocationally-biased course which is designed to develop problem-solving skills , to give students a knowledge of relevant mathematical and statistical models , and to make them proficient users of appropriate computer software . |
| 2 | Their personal responsibility for decision-making seemed to elevate them above the social struggle , to make them neutral arbiters between the competing interests of nobles , townsmen , and peasants . |
| 3 | A contrary view is that ‘ Marx united Romantic and working-class protest with the Jewish Messianic tradition to make them powerful elements in his ‘ scientific ’ socialism' . |
| 4 | Before long I was posted and had sadly to make my reluctant goodbyes to Yolande . |
| 5 | Then I decided I was going to make my own choices from now on . |
| 6 | With time , and the development of physical and mental abilities , babies are able to make their first moves towards independence . |
| 7 | The research design distinguishes between teachers ' perceptions of their formal obligations and constraints , both within the institution and more broadly within the education system , their self-imposed ‘ moral ’ responsibility and the extent to which they feel free to make their own decisions as autonomous professionals . |
| 8 | People could be left to make their own decisions with no greater subsidy than is available to farming in general . |
| 9 | 17.58 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 9 should be encouraged to make their own decisions about the appropriate length for a piece of work and to recognise that there can be merit in brevity . |
| 10 | It is much more satisfactory , as the Annan Committee on the Future of Television pointed out , for the IBA to leave television stations to make their own decisions about transmission , and to criticise them subsequently if their decisions are mistaken . |
| 11 | We have been asked to boycott 16 frozen fish lines but we believe customers have the right to make their own decisions about the products they buy . |
| 12 | The law might be seen to seek a balance between paternalism and liberation , accepting that whilst advancement of the autonomy interests of children to make their own decisions in respect of their own lives is an appropriate aim of the law , some restrictions are necessary to enable children to progress safely to maturity . |
| 13 | And students are expected to make their own responses to what is put in their way . |
| 14 | that people can make their o , they have a balanced education which allows them then to make their own choices about , that things are n't over , I mean if we 've lived in a patriarchal society in which men are in power and that kin , and male sexuality maybe has come through more in sex education , those have been the issues that have been co , ha have been given more importance and female issues have maybe been neglected a little bit and now erm , with Aids as a problem we do n't want to turn out and suddenly become really homo homophobic or really , you know , right condoms , condoms , it has to be you know , you need to kind of keep the balance so that people are given the information and then have the freedom to make the choice themselves . |
| 15 | Offsetting this cost is the possibility for some to make their own developments off the back of previous transfers of knowledge . |
| 16 | AMNESTY International is organising its second national children 's art competition in the autumn , in which young people will be asked to make their own Postcards For Freedom . |
| 17 | For people to make their own connections to the |
| 18 | Secondly , students have to make their own connections in understanding what they experience on their programme of studies . |
| 19 | To this extent the gifts were tokens , and this basic concept remained , although under Rome , it was possible for individuals to make their own approaches with votive offerings . |
| 20 | Enterprise managers would be free to make their own deals with suppliers , but there would be no change in the basic concept of state ownership of industry . |
| 21 | Most travellers had to make their own arrangements with coach , railway or shipping companies . |
| 22 | Partnerships and education authorities will of course wish to make their own arrangements for monitoring . |
| 23 | Individual MNPs with offices outside England and Wales have to make their own arrangements for appropriate insurance cover . |
| 24 | His widow Martha and seven surviving children must have had to make their own ways in the world , unless they received help from their in-laws , the Temple family , after whom one of his sons was named . |
| 25 | Flexible working is an added opportunity to provide even more refinement by allowing staff at the sharp end to make their own judgements about staffing levels on a day-to-day basis . |
| 26 | Delivering the keynote address at the Windows World annex to Comdex yesterday , Bill Gates announced that NT source code will be given to some US research institutions , including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Washington , Stanford University , Browns University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and they will be free to make their own enhancements to the Microsoft Corp operating system : Unix System Laboratories Inc has been less encouraging of the university fraternity in recent years , and the move is intended to unsettle the Unix community ; Gates also claimed NT 's Posix interface made it as easy ‘ to move applications here as to any of the versions of Unix out there . ’ |
| 27 | Delivering the keynote address at the Windows World annex to Comdex last week , Bill Gates announced that NT source code will be given to some US research institutions , including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Washington , Stanford University , Browns University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and they will be free to make their own enhancements to the Microsoft Corp operating system . |
| 28 | ‘ if it is thought desirable that debentures in their popular meaning may be made irredeemable , it would seem to be both absurd and inconsistent to forbid a company to make its ordinary mortgages of land also irredeemable . ’ |
| 29 | The first way is for each department to make its own plans without much regard to the others . |
| 30 | Secondly , she stipulated that she should continue to receive total financial support from the prince for herself and her children — with the right to make her own decisions on how her portion of the allowance should be spent . |