Example sentences of "[noun sg] often make " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't earn much by international standards , conditions of work are arduous , and chronic underfunding often makes them more so . |
| 2 | Their self-image was that of the chosen few for whom the spectacle provided an inexhaustible supply of objects ( and people ) to hate , and whilst the apparent ease with which they targeted and disposed of their opposition often made good copy ( the endless adventure , the scandal , etc. ) , there is a sense in which the hectoring tone of their documents became repetitive and wearisome . |
| 3 | Conditions then vary from those in which the cultural institutions and their producers are wholly subordinated to general state policy — a condition often made harsher by full or attempted monopoly of all means of cultural production — to more nuanced situations in which , while general policy direction is exercised , the practical relations are not significantly different from those in modern patronal and intermediate bodies , which of course also , in varying ways , have general policy directions in accordance with the social order in which they are working . |
| 4 | I am employed here as a nurse in the premature baby intensive care unit and I 'm certainly kept very busy , the work often made more difficult but challenging in that I work alongside people from around 30 different countries . |
| 5 | ’ Boy often made me think of that particular moment — it was the way he looked down . |
| 6 | In any event the sheer volume and variety of bodies under departmental sponsorship often makes ministerial responsibility something of a myth . |
| 7 | It is perhaps useful here to bear in mind the distinction often made in the study of pressure groups between ‘ interest ’ groups and ‘ cause ’ groups , though in the tactical struggle for influence each may seek to co-opt the support of the other . |
| 8 | Even when on top of his game the intensity of his desire often makes him appear downcast as he strides down the fairways — in direct contrast to his compatriot Seve Ballesteros , who has every emotion etched on his face . |
| 9 | After her poem drew one in reply , Ella Wrote an article in prose in the next issue in which she put a point often made in the later period ( see Chapters 5 and 7 ) by women workers , and one which is central to the debate on women 's pay generally . |
| 10 | The difficulties that many girls and boys have in talking to parents about sex and contraception often make it a subject to be mutually avoided . |
| 11 | There has been an advantage in looking first at an exercise because its very ‘ task ’ orientation often makes the structure explicit , whereas in group drama one has often to look for it . |
| 12 | There is often a thirst but during the chill cold water often makes this worse ( < ) . |
| 13 | But down in the Aldwych was the London School of Economics , where there were the first stirrings of student revolt , English-style , and to which the medical student often made his way . |
| 14 | His strong dialect and ungrammatical turns of phrase often made him unintentionally amusing , but his dark and ruddy complexion , coarse features , and shabby clothes gave him a hold over the type of working man the total abstainers sought to reach . |
| 15 | An argument often made in their briefs , against random testing in particular , is that it reverses the normal presumption of innocence : an employee is deemed guilty unless he can prove himself innocent by producing ‘ clean ’ urine . |
| 16 | She has a right to do what she chooses with her time , and interference often makes matters worse . |
| 17 | The founder often made provision for the mass-priest to teach a grammar school . |
| 18 | Stories of her private life often made the headlines … they were all kept in carefully assembled scrapbooks . |
| 19 | A slap often makes the situation worse and the child 's cries louder while parents ' shouting only increases the general noise level . |
| 20 | People requiring accommodation often make use of the reservation form which hotels include in their hotel brochure . |
| 21 | This is an assumption often made by palaeontologists , but presence of a predator species in a fossil assemblage is no proof that it was the one that accumulated the assemblage . |
| 22 | This question is a rose with not a few thorns ; women do not like the assumption often made by men ( especially poets ) that the beautiful face describes an equally beautiful soul . |
| 23 | There is another assumption often made which needs challenging . |
| 24 | That line often makes people edgy . |
| 25 | Lawnmakers of the green baize persuasion often make rude remarks about my weed infested grass , yet compared to a true meadow , mine is a tidy , close-cropped carpet of grass , speedwell , white clover , dandelion and plantain — to name the dominant species . |
| 26 | ‘ Economic and political groups in dominance often make use of majority and minority religious groups and issues for their own ends , ’ participants agreed . |
| 27 | Translation often made matters worse , since this tended to be the responsibility of people whose knowledge of English was inadequate for the task : as has already been noted , phrases or words in the original text were frequently left in English . |
| 28 | Stress and hardship often make the gambler go . |
| 29 | This sort of task is very common in process control situations where the operator often makes a preliminary three-way decision corresponding to the worldwide system of red , amber and green traffic lights . |