Example sentences of "of make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would the flight from the towns to the countryside in the early thirties of made any difference ? |
| 2 | Electrolytic production of alkalis and improved methods of making sulphuric acid soon followed . |
| 3 | That ‘ Mr Lavoisier had found a method of making inflammable air ( hydrogen ) for a halfpenny per cubic foot ’ , a fifth of the usual price , attracted Priestley 's attention . |
| 4 | For Harriet Finlay Johnson , knowledge of the objective world was of prime importance and she developed a dramatic process of making factual knowledge more interesting . |
| 5 | It accuses 22 companies — most of them in Taiwan — of making counterfeit Apple computers . |
| 6 | Some part-timers regard Koi dealing as a way of making easy money . |
| 7 | Many commentators would now agree that the marginal costs of making fuller use of existing facilities outweigh the economies of scale to be obtained from their concentration . |
| 8 | The case submitted by the DoE was that ‘ the purpose of making fuller use of SDOs would not be to make any general relaxation in development control but to stimulate planned development in acceptable locations , and speed up the planning process ’ . |
| 9 | The grant of Alemannia , where none of Charles 's half-brothers had a prime interest , was the least provocative way of making reasonable provision for Charles 's future . |
| 10 | Realistically , there may be little prospect of making better progress than this so long as the systems themselves remain largely no more than promises rather than commercially available products . |
| 11 | Developing the food side of the business was a way of making better use of the Cadbury brand . |
| 12 | My right hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the dangers which lie within the social charter of making European industry uncompetitive in relation to Japanese industry and to others . |
| 13 | If the DH is 500 ft , then at 700 ft/min it would be reached in approximately 2 minutes which would give you a reasonable chance of making visual contact . |
| 14 | Judge Geoffrey Grigson rebuked Lady Dawn Kennedy , 32 , after David Waters , prosecuting her on three charges of making bogus rape allegations , pointed out her conduct . |
| 15 | Sue Cale demonstrated the art of making hot cross buns using fast action dried yeast . |
| 16 | To confer legitimacy as a matter of course on all interests , even conflicting ones , is to run the risk of making democratic politics synonymous with a static paralysis in policy , or with what Thomas Carlyle called " self-cancelling Donothingism " ( Chartism , 1839 ) . |
| 17 | There has been a continuing move in the direction of making economic theory mathematically and logically more rigorous and developing statistical methods to test and measure theory using what data is available . |
| 18 | Drawing a line between different types of variable is extremely difficult , largely because of a more general problem of making much sense of the intuitively plausible notion of phonological naturalness ( see Lass 1984 ) . |
| 19 | She fell into the way of sitting with him at supper , liking the custom that the Beastline creatures had of making each evening a little ceremony in its own right . |
| 20 | He had the enviable but potentially inconvenient gift of making each visitor feel that he was the person Montini had been waiting all his life to talk to . |
| 21 | U'S BOSS Roy McDonough has quit as a player , kissing goodbye to his dream of making 500 League appearances and scoring 100 goals . |
| 22 | The Catholic Church has long insisted on its right of making due provision for the full range of the educational needs of its community and has invested heavily in making such provision . |
| 23 | There was ‘ enough sentiment ’ , he admitted , ‘ enough fire … to lead people to put their lives and their families on the line for the cause ’ , but the cause was a mess ; too many different groups , no means of making political capital out of them , and ‘ guys running around in the hills … illiterate , ignorant campesinos ’ . |
| 24 | It will consider how the law achieves its stated purpose of making financial provision for illegitimate children , and the issues raised by custody and access applications . |
| 25 | ( d ) Pensions and insurances Now that payments for goodwill to outgoing partners are fast disappearing , partners must address themselves to the question of making financial provision for themselves in retirement and their families in the event of their death . |
| 26 | Charges in the NHS have the effect of making private health care relatively more attractive . |
| 27 | The funds thus obtained , which would be repayable over a five-year period , represented only about 15 per cent of the estimated cost of making good damage to infrastructure [ see p. 38362 ] ; most reconstruction funding was expected to come from oil revenues . |
| 28 | Having proved the possibility of making good paper from such materials , Koops set up a company , the Straw Paper Manufactory , raised over £70,000 by issue of shares , and in 1801 erected a paper-making mill at Millbank in Westminster . |
| 29 | This is specifically provided for in s1(1) of CPA 1987 which states : ( 1 ) This Part shall have effect for the purpose of making such provision as is necessary in order to comply with the product liability Directive and shall be construed accordingly . |
| 30 | There are growling bass reinforcements and the principal melody shouts its triumph at one point an octave higher than written , through it has to be said that Cortot had a way of making such licence irresistible . |