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

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1 In answer to questions the Home Secretary at this time had stated that this was an issue for individual courts to make requests of the press , not a matter for legislation .
2 Duckworth recounted how in Palestine he had met a scribe whose craftsmanship had weakened with age and so was only permitted to make copies of the ‘ writings ’ a part of the O.T .
3 Although Peter Handford had intended to return to the Bath side of the tunnel at night to make recordings of the several trains which at that time ran from the north towards Bournemouth in the early hours of Saturday morning , he did not do so , partly because he was reluctant to visit the place in darkness and also because each time he visited Winsor Hill tunnel to make recordings he experienced problems and misfortunes of one sort or another .
4 These proprietors retain the potential to exercise political power : indeed , they have used their ownership to chart the political direction of their newspapers , but they have stopped well short of using their newspapers to make demands of the political system in the manner of the press barons of the 1930s .
5 Before the Minister starts to make criticisms of the cost to the taxpayer of buying back the grid company , may I remind him what happened when his right hon. Friend sold it ?
6 He inherited this Bill a and it is not always easy er to make changes of the radical nature which he has proposed .
7 In order to determine the yield on such bonds , it is necessary to make forecasts of the relevant index .
8 In 1769 Dixon sailed to Norway with William Bayly [ q.v. ] in the Emerald to make observations of the transit of Venus on 3 June on the Royal Society 's behalf .
9 Indeed , it can draw the line in such a way as to make synonyms of the terms form and content .
10 Slum clearance was no answer , since the indigent were simply displaced from the centre of cities to make slums of the suburbs ; it was useless , and moreover dangerous , to destroy the housing of the poor without replacing it , as Godwin again remarked , with his eye on Paris .
11 A word-grammar is used to make decisions of the form :
12 Table 11.2 Good and bad times for exposure to natural light in the first two to three days after a time-zone transition Meals and drinks • Try to make meals of the ‘ correct ’ type ( breakfast , lunch , etc. ) at your adjusted times .
13 Parliament granted taxes in return for the king 's promise to grant the ‘ requests of the Commons ’ for the observance of the Charters and the Ordinances , and the appointment of commissioners to make perambulations of the forests .
14 Inside the bacterium the D N A of the erm C of the T four bacteria then starts hijacks the cellulum material , like the you saw before , in the cell , and instead of making the things that the cell wants to make , it starts to make bits of the of the T four bacteria .
15 This is even more true if we wish to make generalisations of the kind I examined above with regard to the relative logic , objectivity and neutrality of whole systems .
16 Please do not hesitate to make enquiries of the Home Care Staff based in these offices :
17 He knew how things worked in London , where to go to obtain what he wanted or needed , had contacts with the underworld , was smart enough and experienced enough not to make mistakes of the kind that draw a visitor to the attention of the authorities .
18 Using the shear-lag theory we have ( Equation 4.23 ) the tensile stress in the proposed fibril given by It is therefore possible to make estimates of the distribution of stress using this theory although it is not justifiable to place too much weight on such estimates .
19 Thus it was that a young cosmochelonian of the Steady Gait faction , testing a new telescope with which he hoped to make measurements of the precise albedo of Great A'Tuin 's right eye , was on this eventful evening the first outsider to see the smoke rise hubward from the burning of the oldest city in the world .
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