Example sentences of "make [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not make specific demands of the growing medium , and will even grow on just fine gravel . |
| 2 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 3 | The repository would make extensive use of cement and concrete as ‘ engineered ’ barriers . |
| 4 | The objective of the course provision is to produce office professionals who can make extensive use of technology but who are able to accept responsibility and operate heuristically as well as technically within organisational systems . |
| 5 | Patten also announced that he would make extensive use of enhanced capping powers in 1991 . |
| 6 | It was anticipated , however , that at least during the first stage Gorbachev would make extensive use of emergency powers , granted to him in September , to introduce reforms by presidential decree . |
| 7 | ‘ Mother did n't make that kind of mistake . ’ |
| 8 | And it 's really to provide , according to Derek , it 's to provide the Secretary of State with some ideas of costings of , if she decides the new careers services to run careers conventions , she would make that part of the specification and she would know how much that that was likely to cost her . |
| 9 | ‘ Maybe one day , if things keep going well for me , I might make that sort of money . |
| 10 | I can reassure my hon. Friend that nothing in the Bill will make that sort of rationalisation necessary . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think we should make that sort of speculation without any evidence , ’ she snapped . |
| 12 | The undue power of committee chairmen in relation to their colleagues was more of a problem in the House than in the Senate , but in the latter a system of legislative norms or folkways made possible dominance of the proceedings by leading members of the Senate inner club or establishment . |
| 13 | Britain 's industrial revolution made ample use of child labour . |
| 14 | The treaty , cc-ordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) , will make strange bedfellows of a number of enemies . |
| 15 | In the same period last year , the company made interim profits of £17.2 million . |
| 16 | It 's quite funny watching them make complete fools of themselves . |
| 17 | He made that sign of two fingers laid across two fingers . |
| 18 | For better or worse , he also was instrumental in promoting the blockbuster exhibition , notably the infamous ‘ Treasures of Tutankhamun ’ extravaganza of 1978 that attracted the public in droves but made tranquil enjoyment of a work of art an impossibility ( those who believe that the age of the rib-crushing blockbusters has ended , thanks in part to increased insurance costs , are herewith directed to the Museum of Modern Art 's current Matisse show — provided you have a ticket ) . |
| 19 | The use of both was greatest in both declining and growing ( as opposed to stable ) firms , and this was taken as evidence for the view that it is firms facing fluctuating demand for output that make greatest use of temporary workers . |
| 20 | Lowell , holding her , made little sense of what she was saying . |
| 21 | WHILE the European Commission refused to give any public reaction to the Tories ’ victory , senior Brussels bureaucrats made little secret of the fact that they would have preferred a more pliable Labour government . |
| 22 | The Turks made little secret of their pleasure that the majority of the Central Asian delegations spoke in Turkish at the summit . |
| 23 | In England the codes of the Anglo-Saxon kings , although they covered only a fraction of the area covered by custom , and although they contained numerous traditional items , involved some new legislation and made little pretence of not doing so . |
| 24 | They made little use of the youth clubs and other leisure facilities , other than as places to meet their mates . |
| 25 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 26 | Indeed , after 1322 Edward made little use of parliament . |
| 27 | The taste for sweet and highly spiced food , which made little use of the plants which grew easily in our temperate Northern climate , may well have been brought back from the Holy Land by returning Crusaders . |
| 28 | The final communiqué , however , made little mention of economic assistance to eastern Europe . |
| 29 | Many of our studies and our own commentaries have in fact made little mention of children … |
| 30 | Now we have to be careful with the word ‘ redemptive ’ because in a final way only Christ 's sufferings can be deemed truly redemptive ; but I feel that we can make guarded use of the term . |