Example sentences of "make the [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In practice the demands of the administration made the latter appointment impractical .
2 Ahmed : At the meeting , what made the most impact was the situation in which we found ourselves .
3 But the one who made the most impact and will probably pay dearly for his injudicious comments during the week was Colin Montgomerie .
4 In any case , he made feeble efforts to help me get him to his left foot , and with my almost total support he made the few hops to reach the boat , though I could see it hurt him sorely .
5 100 years ago a legion of artists and craftsmen made the same journey .
6 Again , the TUC General Council made the same accusation when it met the Beveridge Committee seventeen years later : F.H .
7 Leonard Aldous used the same tools and made the same type of harness as his predecessors did in medieval times .
8 Other European socialist thinkers made the same judgement , but some argued for diverse proletarian strategies , including reliance on trade union action and the strike weapon , or the creation of working-class communes outside capitalist relations , where a new civilization could be constructed piecemeal .
9 He made the same promise nine years ago , during the siege of the Grand Mosque at Mecca .
10 What with those tutors , hers is English English , her friends ’ English ; she did the same things and made the same jokes and had the qualities they admired — the post-Edwardians , the young new Georgians of her set , her sets — dash , courage , brilliance , intellectual freedom .
11 HEALEY : Even Mr Pym made the same wobble , yes .
12 Fat Man and Little Boy ) , made the same year and released at the cinema .
13 Everything had changed and , when he gave two readings at Columbia University and the University of Texas , on both occasions he made the same disclaimer — that he had almost lost contact with the young man who had written the earlier poetry .
14 My story is similar to Annie 's in that I made the same mistake and thought of my granddaughter as a substitute child .
15 The headlines , this time ‘ I Should Be So Scruffy ’ , ensured she never made the same mistake again .
16 I made the same mistake that I make , year after year .
17 Stupidly , the English followed us and made the same mistake .
18 I made the same mistake .
19 Ray made the same argument for Scarborough , because
20 Chola reached up to the arch above the doorway add seven times made the same imprint with the pad of her thumb on to seven discs of semi-dried cow-dung .
21 At Eger , in 1213 , Frederick made the same promises to respect the Papal State as Otto had done .
22 Interestingly enough , Bayezid II made the same stipulation in regard to the medrese attached to his mosque in Istanbul ( the medrese built probably in 912–13/1506–8 ) , namely that the Mufti of Istanbul should be the muderris .
23 So , for example , in the England of the seventeenth century , Anglicans , Puritans , Presbyterians and others all made the same appeal to the Bible ; but their different convictions about what the Bible was chiefly saying often seemed more prominent than their shared allegiance to it .
24 To all complaints about his conduct he made the same answer : he was bound by the decree of 1099 , which obliged him to withdraw from the communion of all who had taken part in ceremonies of investiture or homage .
25 A pair of ‘ Boulle ’ marquetry meubles à hauteur d'appui of around 1780 attributed to Etienne Levasseur of Phillip-Claude Montigny made the same amount against an estimate of $250,000–350,000 .
26 Malcolm Smith , who runs the noted Jencra herd at Stoke on Trent , paid 7,500gn for Jim Goldie 's 17-month-old Epatant son , Goldie 's Globetrotter , while the suitably named Goldie 's Goldmine , another by the same sire , made the same amount when it sold in a private deal to David Dick of Mains of Throsk , Stirling , and Archie McGregor , Allanfauld , Kilsyth , after being turned out of the ring unsold at 7,200gn .
27 That is to say , if one made the same measurement on a large number of similar systems , each of which started off in the same way , one would find that the result of the measurement would be A in a certain number of cases , B in a different number , and so on .
28 The parents ' lawyers made the same points .
29 Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier .
30 Sensibly , but with some sensitivity , her boss made the same points to Muriel as he had made in his reference , asking her at the same time if these conflicts had ever arisen out of the office with family friends or neighbours .
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