Example sentences of "make the [det] [noun sg] " 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 .
4 100 years ago a legion of artists and craftsmen made the same journey .
5 Again , the TUC General Council made the same accusation when it met the Beveridge Committee seventeen years later : F.H .
6 Leonard Aldous used the same tools and made the same type of harness as his predecessors did in medieval times .
7 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 .
8 He made the same promise nine years ago , during the siege of the Grand Mosque at Mecca .
9 HEALEY : Even Mr Pym made the same wobble , yes .
10 Fat Man and Little Boy ) , made the same year and released at the cinema .
11 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 .
12 My story is similar to Annie 's in that I made the same mistake and thought of my granddaughter as a substitute child .
13 The headlines , this time ‘ I Should Be So Scruffy ’ , ensured she never made the same mistake again .
14 I made the same mistake that I make , year after year .
15 Stupidly , the English followed us and made the same mistake .
16 I made the same mistake .
17 Ray made the same argument for Scarborough , because
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 A young Arsenal fan made the same point after having listened rather contemptuously to a discussion by academics about working-class ‘ resistance ’ to increasing middle-class infiltration of football .
26 Repton made the same point in his Sketches and Hints of 1794 : ‘ To improve the scenery of country and to display its native beauties with advantage is an art which originated in England . ’
27 In an article in the Guardian in 1986 J. Matthew made the same point : ‘ This is little different from the GCE/CSE dual system , except that the segregation will be hidden , all certificates being headed GCSE . ’
28 Another Member , Mr Kasambala , made the same point , adding : One backbencher disagreed ; Mr Tunze said that he wanted
29 Nye ( 1984 ) made the same point when he observed that the agenda for examining the power of US firms in the 1980s was little different from that of the early 1970s , despite the relative loss of US power .
30 The resistance of Ulster was also linked to its business roots with such slogans as " Industrial Ulster is united " or " They mean business " , and Law made the same point when he described in Norwich a recent meeting that he had addressed in the Ulster Hall :
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