Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] they [vb mod] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the purpose of this book , I should like to think of a smallholding as any parcel of agricultural land of up to ( say ) 100 acres , organized to be worked by one or two people , without paid labour , and through which they can make part or the whole of their living . |
| 2 | But more appetizing food , e.g. lettuce or carrots , for which they will make an expedition or rob a garden , is flayrah . ) |
| 3 | This might help them to see his lack of social responsiveness as a symptom of his illness and something for which they should make allowances rather than as an unfriendly act or a personal slight on their company . |
| 4 | There is clearly force in this ‘ equal treatment ’ argument , which was later deployed in defence of the Schlunk decision by the United States delegation at a Special Commission of the Hague Conference held in April 1989 ; but as between the United Sates and the German Federal Republic it is German plaintiffs who emerge at a disadvantage , for German law has no doctrine similar to that of involuntary agency of which they could make use . |
| 5 | Most of the living cephalopods also have an ink sac which injects a smoky fluid into the water when the animal is threatened , under cover of which they can make their own jet-propelled escape . |
| 6 | Women have a natural link between the psyche and the physical , of which they can make valuable use . |
| 7 | Their only tools from the outside world were the " parang " , the broad-bladed machete of the East , and a hand-drill resembling an oversized corkscrew , with which they could make all the other tools they required to produce these spectacular Noah 's Arks . |
| 8 | First , there were the blue-blooded man-about-town types who had perhaps not — generally speaking — enjoyed the greatest success in their commercial and professional careers , who were restless , and saw executive search as an institutionalised old-boy network , in which they could make the most of their old contacts and make money without the need for major capital investment , and who misguidedly thought that it would be an easy living . |
| 9 | They had employment merely for one year and no chance of employment in which they could make long-term plans for buying a house , for retiring and so on . |
| 10 | The researcher conducting this case ( Wobbe-Ohlenburg 1982 ) comments that much of the publicity about using robots in factories emphasises the way in which they can make life more pleasant for humans by taking over the dirty , dangerous , or monotonously repetitive jobs . |
| 11 | I think that the mass of the people , as far as I can see , want the state where they can er well economic climate in which they can make money for themselves and get on top . |
| 12 | In a new pool they often die because the water has not matured and there is insufficient debris on the pool floor in which they can make their home . |
| 13 | If objectives from the higher categories of Bloom 's taxonomy are included , where students are asked to make judgements , to criticise and evaluate ; and if students are given a range of objectives from which they may make their own choices and even , at the later stages of training , are encouraged to write their own , then this will go a long way to meeting this criticism . |
| 14 | Predictably , they took the parts from which they could make money . |
| 15 | They are only interested in what they can make out of it . ’ |
| 16 | Aberconwy Borough Council said the damage figure passed the point at which they could make requests for financial help to the Government . |