Example sentences of "of [noun sg] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Disabled people 's main aim may be just to create art , but for many the current scale of discrimination makes that goal unreachable . |
2 | New ways of printing make unforeseen demands upon an old face , while at the same time giving the typographer scope to design problems away . |
3 | By the 1660s all the islands were committed to sugar and the white planters were taking drastic steps to prevent their white employees from leaving the islands and tilting the population balance still further towards the black slaves , but this of course made white employees all the more determined to avoid going to the West Indies . |
4 | A third party may of course make diplomatic representations or bring pressure to bear upon a State to perform what it perceives to be that State 's treaty obligations with another State , although such action is likely to be resented as unwarranted interference in external affairs . |
5 | We must of course make full allowance for the disappearance of the most important historical sources of the third century B.C. Hieronymus of Cardia is likely to have given a precise account of the Celtic events of 280–275 B.C. Later Phylarchus continued the story . |
6 | The merger has been on the cards for some time and of course makes perfect sense . |
7 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
8 | The low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure . |
9 | The incredibly low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure . |
10 | That the Board of Review made this assumption appears also from the reference in their first determination to the profits accruing to the taxpayer from the fees derived from the sub-licencing being sourced in the countries to which the sub-licences related . |
11 | If such statutory clauses were ever intended to reflect the common law ( and this is not clear ) , the dichotomy drawn within them between the two heads of review makes little sense in light of the expansion of non-statutory review . |
12 | The whole process of review makes considerable demands ( Bell 1988:231 ) : the aim is to produce internal school development rather than to provide a mechanism for external accountability . |
13 | The Immigration Acts with their strict control of entry made frequent trips to and from Britain impossible . |
14 | Moreover , as counsel for the respondent pointed out , in my view correctly , the law of defamation makes adequate provision by the principle adopted in respect of fair comment to protect those who make legitimate critical comments on matters of public interest . |
15 | Different patterns of work made different demands on the family . |
16 | Local builders looked for a cheap and plentiful source of sand to make concrete blocks after Portland cement came into use , and the excavation tips were close at hand . |
17 | However this time , whether or not a change of ownership makes any difference to that permission , I intend to lodge an official complaint . |
18 | Hope for the return of rain to make Ethiopian grain lands fertile . |
19 | Most naturalists of my age just enjoyed wildlife of every kind and did not see the need for conservation until after the war when modern methods of farming made enormous changes in the countryside . |
20 | This sort of militarism made professional sense to many medics because of its connection with their own reformulated medical discourse . |
21 | New and simple techniques of rehydration make most deaths — except of the very young and old — preventable . |
22 | Ian Cocking just about manages to persuade the council that the ramp is worth keeping so the ramp is fixed up but a botch job on one piece of coping makes any trick other then just plain rock 'n' rolls virtually impossible . |
23 | The use of propaganda to make this behaviour unfashionable again has been suggested ( Stanley 1969 ) , but no health education programme has ever been put forward to this purpose and it is difficult to know whether such an approach would be feasible . |
24 | Public ignorance , inhibition and ambiguity of feeling make sexual mountains from molehills and a titillatory Press is only too eager to make salacious copy out of any suspected deviation from " standard " morality . |
25 | The thousands of tons of steel made real communication impossible . |
26 | Ace appeared to have gone to a great deal of trouble to make this place so pretty and welcoming . |
27 | These social movements express new forms of social struggle , which have arisen out of the relative failure of other sectors of society to make significant changes and out of changing socio-economic conditions . |
28 | This is a course of man made permanent jumps and they are spread out and not in a ring . |
29 | Has the Secretary of State made any advance in redressing the ridiculous situation of the Scottish soldiers in the territorial units who served in the Gulf for 51 days and who were constantly under attack by Scud missiles ? |
30 | The fact that the Council 's Structure Plan , in which their planning policy is enshrined , has not yet been accepted by the Secretary of State makes these changes in direction all the easier . |