Example sentences of "make [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A student who is told to " make notes on the diplomatic arrangement that followed the Napoleonic Wars " may use these simple techniques to create the following structure : |
| 2 | Companies responsible for its prospects have gone out of business seven times , discovering that while they could make money on the big promotions , the building and park were too expensive to run on a tickover basis ( nowadays the park alone costs £650,000 a year to maintain ) , and in an earlier era of six-day working weeks , the public had not much leisure time to spend there anyway . |
| 3 | A Swedish newspaper gave 10,000 kronor ( £830 ) to five stock exchange experts and a chimpanzee with a brief to go away and make money on the market , AP reported . |
| 4 | Well that 's where , I mean , you can make money on the food sometimes ca n't you ? |
| 5 | The Nez Perce made camp on the Clearwater , which Howard dared not cross , then struck their lodges the following morning and headed for Weippe Prairie and the Lolo trail east . |
| 6 | The track gradually dropped to the rippling waters of the Hongu Khola , where we made camp on the banks of the river amidst azaleas and fragrang scrub juniper between the enclosing mountains . |
| 7 | Eleanor made notes on the differences between English and American workplaces and unions . |
| 8 | Her wet boots made footprints on the dusty floor and she still wore an apron over her black skirt , but she had a fine air about her . |
| 9 | Theodora really does make attempts on the Christian life , Julia thought . |
| 10 | ‘ Everyone made money on the immigrant worker — from the big-time capitalist to the slum landlord — from exploiting his colour , his customs , his culture . |
| 11 | His line would be something like this : " You made money on the Rolls Royce , sir . |
| 12 | Make notes on the spots along the riverbank , or the edges of fishing ponds , where they choose to sit down . |
| 13 | Remembering your list of good advice , make notes on the good and bad points in your partner 's reading . |
| 14 | The second factor associated , in particular , with the applications from the former Eastern Bloc countries is that of the EEC 's trade and tariff policies , which make existence on the doorstep of a protectionist bloc increasingly painful . |
| 15 | The range should include some works that make demands on the reader in terms of content or length or organisation or language . |
| 16 | The range should include some works that make demands on the reader in terms of content or length or organisation or language . |
| 17 | The range should include some works that make demands on the reader in terms of content or length or organisation or language . |
| 18 | Naturally enough , they make demands on the National Health Service . |
| 19 | Workers have their own organisations which can bring pressure to bear on governments and make demands on the state . |
| 20 | They sang songs like the birds and made shapes on the walls ; and though these could help them not at all , yet they passed the time and enabled them to tell themselves that they were splendid fellows , the very flower of Rabbitry , cleverer than magpies . |
| 21 | Moreover , the cross-curricular Working Party which is looking at a variety of themes including Economic Awareness , will also make demands on the support of the local business community . |
| 22 | It had entailed much the same fuss and anger as the now-and-then Sunday dinners : Rachaela recruited to peel vegetables , make crosses on the thousands of sprouts . |
| 23 | And make verges on the roads . |
| 24 | I also made documentaries on the battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz , with both of which , as the reader may recall , I had had distant brushes , and the battlecruiser or fast battleship Scharnhorst which had sunk my father 's Rawalpindi . |
| 25 | Television may have made inroads on the number of live spectators but , if anything , it has encouraged a greater degree of participation in a far wider range of activities . |
| 26 | On the other hand , it is argued ( E. R. Dew , 56 Lqw Society 's Gazette 365 ) that the most likely ‘ other reason ’ for which an agreement might be void or unenforceable , apart from containing a provision against application to the court , would be precisely the want of consideration if the agreement be not under seal ; the legislature , it is urged on this view , would not have made inroads on the fundamental requirement of valuable consideration in a contract not under seal , by a provision purporting to deal with the maintenance rights of a wife . |
| 27 | We have made proposals on the break-up of British Gas and British Telecom that are designed to promote competition , which the Government have not begun to do . |
| 28 | An order requiring the contravener to repay the purchase price of the shares would not be capable of restoring the parties to their respective former positions unless the obligation to repay were made conditional on the tender of the share certificates . |
| 29 | The agreement to lift the IMF 's quotas , effectively the membership fees payable by its 152 members , from 90,000 million to 135,000 million special drawing rights ( SDR1=US$1.32757 as at May 11 , 1990 ) , was made conditional on the adoption of a tougher policy against countries in arrears . |
| 30 | FoE pollution campaigner Karen McVeigh says that such allowances should be made conditional on the bus operators including a requirement for low-sulphur diesel in their fuel specifications . |