Example sentences of "to make [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not going to make my usual complaint about words not in my dictionary , for this novel seems to demand ‘ hard ’ words . |
| 2 | ‘ Tomorrow morning , ’ he said , ‘ I have to make my closing speech in defence of a man who is on a murder charge , and whom I know for certain to be innocent . |
| 3 | Before long I was posted and had sadly to make my reluctant goodbyes to Yolande . |
| 4 | ‘ From now on I want to make my own way in the world , be independent . ’ |
| 5 | The principles on which recovery and success have been based are those which , like so many others , I first began to understand for myself when I was growing up and trying to make my own way in the world . |
| 6 | Then I decided I was going to make my own choices from now on . |
| 7 | But I 'd eluded them before and I could again , I told myself , almost jauntily , as I ambled into the bar that I decided to make my last stop for the night . |
| 8 | With time , and the development of physical and mental abilities , babies are able to make their first moves towards independence . |
| 9 | ‘ If anyone decided to make their political statement by shooting at an English cricketer , after Gower at the toss , I was the next Englishman to be involved on the field . |
| 10 | Then we waited , as the ships ahead of us lifted off one at a time to make their laborious way through the Valve 's exit security process . |
| 11 | Meridian fell apart on the penalties and Woodmill went through to make their fourth appearance in the final . |
| 12 | According to the government , clearly agreed local arrangements should enable individual general practitioners to make their full contribution to the new system of community care without getting involved in extra bureaucracy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | People could be left to make their own decisions with no greater subsidy than is available to farming in general . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | With the border opening looking increasingly doubtful in the week preceding Aug. 13 , members of several South Korean dissident groups attempted to make their own way to Panmunjom but were turned back at police roadblocks . |
| 20 | Both students , they had been well equipped and managed to make their own way off the mountain . |
| 21 | Two hundred to make their own way in the world . |
| 22 | The money from the sale of the products is put into a trust fund , so that when the youngsters leave at the age of sixteen to make their own way in the world they have the means to purchase a flock of sheep or a horse and cart , giving them a vital start in whatever activity they take up . |
| 23 | The anti-hunt lobby , likening the pastime to murder … the pro-hunt supporters demanding the freedom to deal with vermin … and tenant farmers who rent their land from the council and want to make their own decision about any ban . |
| 24 | And students are expected to make their own responses to what is put in their way . |
| 25 | This problem of balance can be alleviated if students are left to make their own choice of what to take from orientation , by giving them access to self-instructional media like self-guided tours , self-instructional tape-slides and audio-tapes etc . |
| 26 | There is such a variety of good literature available for inclusion in syllabuses that we want teachers to have the freedom to make their own choice of suitable books within our broad guidelines . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The demands of the unemployed workers ' movement of the 1930s had an unexpected radicalism , not because people then were more " political " , but because the unemployed were able to make their own measure of an income . |
| 29 | Offsetting this cost is the possibility for some to make their own developments off the back of previous transfers of knowledge . |
| 30 | 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 . |