Example sentences of "make some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conductors could make some money for themselves by selling lists of well-known passengers on their trains to representatives of the Associated Press . |
| 2 | And that 's hampering the whole development process because it 's high , high wages , high wages creates migration and the whole resource allocation reflects in the economies er are disrupted and because people are moving out of agriculture because they ca n't make any money from agriculture they think they can make some money in industry like agriculture itself is being starved of capital and er so it hampers the development process , I mean it 's a complicated business but er there may well be some , some sort of strands of sense that we can draw out of this , one of which may be well if the government sectors are too large in these countries essentially it does n't matter who owns these companies whether it 's , they were privately owned or government , erm if they are inefficient they are inefficient |
| 3 | Today the climate is totally different and a number of us can make some money from athletics — enough , at least , to enable us to devote all our time to it . |
| 4 | Mr Y wrote me a note , ‘ would I make some notes on her , there is a possibility of her going into the unit ’ ( withdrawal unit for disruptive pupils ) . |
| 5 | She must make some scheme for herself , the best thing to do . |
| 6 | 10 For periods of absence , the teacher should make some provision for informing the substitute teacher where lesson plans , etc are kept . |
| 7 | I accept that one can make some criticisms about Labour local authorities , but what I dislike about the Secretary of State 's usual contribution is that it is so cliche d , simplistic and grotesque . |
| 8 | Unlike the Mantuan and Ferrarese madrigalists , Marenzio composed mainly for the pleasure of the performers themselves , not for courtly audiences listening to brilliant executants , though he did make some essays in the three-upper-part style associated with the Ferrarese ladies , notably the exquisite ‘ Hor chi Clori ’ in his Sixth five-part book ( 1594 ) , and he must have reckoned on good performers to tackle the chromaticisms of ‘ O voi che sospirate ’ ( Book II , 1581 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , madam , I must make some congratulations to you . |
| 10 | We can certainly make some progress towards doing so by peeling away the gender-drama from the conflicts of ideals in which it has often figured , and trying to see those conflicts in sex-neutral terms . |
| 11 | I hope that in Committee we can make some progress on that front . |
| 12 | Digital Equipment Corp executives remark that the Open Software Foundation better make some progress in the coming months stitching up the wounds of the old Unix wars and accommodating itself to new alliances or else it 's going to have a lot of trouble getting funding from its sponsors next year . |
| 13 | They have no means of assessing the reliability of automatic control systems but they can make some assessment of a skilled individual and without knowing very much about his working procedures they will trust his actions if he seems calm , competent and mature . |
| 14 | It would make some sense for friends of the Ford camp to push the Jaguar shares upwards simply to make a link with GM more difficult . |
| 15 | This may make some sense for the bourgeois ‘ art ’ tradition ( though probably not as much as he thinks ) but when the elements of the entire musical production-consumption process become both more unified and interdependent , and more ‘ socialized ’ , it becomes less appropriate . |
| 16 | How can we make some sense of it ? |
| 17 | At most we can make some sense of small parts of the pattern . |
| 18 | But what use are visions if you ca n't transcribe them so others can make some sense of them ? |
| 19 | The task of the social scientist is to try and make some sense of any observable patterns and the motivations , whether unspoken or not , behind them . |
| 20 | This advice , suited to small craft-masters or farmers , might still make some sense in the moderately small counting houses of even quite large bankers and merchants , and remained valid in as much as instruction was an essential aspect of management in newly industrialising countries . |
| 21 | Hopefully the Unix industry will make some kind of manly showing . |
| 22 | wishing you could make some kind of gesture |
| 23 | could clearly make some kind of differentiation between a conglomerate paying V A T or some such tax whereas er the exception could be made to those people who are not clearly in a position to make er er to say that . |
| 24 | The drought in Zimbabwe , so the needs are massive , and if we can just make some kind of a major inroad into one million pounds , then we will have given an awful lot of people new hope . |
| 25 | Yet women , of my generation were the first to have the chance to refuse burdens that just could n't be borne , to understand that it was possible to refuse them without censure , to realise that if you still could n't have everything , you could at least make some choices about what you could have . |
| 26 | erm we decided from the start that erm the mums who have their kids in the creche should make some contribution towards the costs ; we 're providing them with a benefit erm but the company picks up the major part of the bill erm but in terms of the output from the additional sewing machinists that we 've got , it 's very , very cost-effective , yes . |
| 27 | The collective behaviour of all the inhabitants as well as certain idiosyncrasies and possibly even eccentricities can make some contribution to the overall design . |
| 28 | In the event , he did make some contribution to Toby and Laura 's education . |
| 29 | I find it difficult to take orders , to be a follower rather than a leader , but I would n't have accepted if I was n't confident that I could make some contribution to the station . |
| 30 | It 'll be int=sting to see whether or not they 're gon na make some changes in the second half . |