Example sentences of "[noun] [be] make [noun] " in BNC.

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1 STREET TERROR : Muggers are making £13 million
2 Although your tenancy agreement may be with the agent many courts are making landlords pick up the debt .
3 At the time of writing solicitors are making hay with a flood of complaints about homes found to contain undisclosed faults after the buyer has moved in .
4 It is Ottmann 's thesis that these artists are making work which is more personal and less ostentatious than was the character of new painting a decade ago .
5 The aims of the course are to make trainees familiar with established knowledge in the main areas of clinical psychiatry and in the biological and behavioural sciences relevant to psychiatry , and to provide an understanding of the scientific method and the nature of scientific hypotheses , and to encourage trainees to put these principles into practice by conducting research under supervision .
6 In addition to a comparison of the Soviet Union/Russia and Britain , the researchers are making contact with other research groups in Europe — particularly in France , Austria , Germany , Poland and Bulgaria .
7 I personally feel it 's a shame that certain manufacturers are making amps to please thrash metallers only ; I 've tried several recently which an average guitarist could n't use without the treble and presence rolled completely off .
8 Windproofing is n't a quality associated with fleece clothing , but manufacturers are making moves to remedy the situation .
9 The Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) has warned that traders are making use of fake export permits in an effort to circumvent CITES bans .
10 He went on to propose that sources of party financing should in future be made public , that limits should be placed on electoral expenses and that procedures should be agreed to guarantee the impartiality of the media .
11 The solicitor said the newly formed Solicitors Criminal Bar Association were making representations to the Lord Chancellor 's office to scrap the legal aid changes and would specifically complain about last week 's hearing .
12 Earlier this week , when other parts of the tape were made public , Camilla 's husband Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles described the allegations as ‘ fiction ’ .
13 She found herself wondering idly whether , if she and Johnny were to make love now , here beneath the apple tree , Ben would be able to see them from his garden , or Mrs Draper from her bedroom window .
14 A fifth , mid-century , scribe wrote the calendar , the verses and the Chronicle entries down to 490 , and a sixth the annals probably to the end of 1048 ; those to 1044 seem to have been written at one time , while changes in the appearance of the script suggest that subsequent entries were made year by year .
15 The only way to ensure randomness is to make sample selections independent of human judgement .
16 The true art of good football is making things look easy .
17 A pub that 's been painted pink is making villagers see red .
18 A pub that 's been painted pink is making villagers see red .
19 I 've been dragged in by the Old Bill twice and your pet grizzly bear Nevil is making life very uncomfortable for people I know .
20 David is making chances every game .
21 Having bought it under expectations of strong profits , TVS has since discovered MTM is making losses of £20million .
22 Having bought it under expectations of strong profits , TVS has since discovered MTM is making losses of £20million .
23 ‘ But my intention is to make money and I 'm doing that rather well with the WBO . ’
24 Any handbook on assertiveness techniques will tell you that the first rule is to make eye contact with your interviewers .
25 While UTV is making inroads with its viewing figures in the South , the absence of cable TV in Northern Ireland , particularly in Belfast , is hampering RTE 's expansion there .
26 The injunctions set the standards that we ought to live up to , and their effect is to make people 's self-esteem contingent on living up to them .
27 In a nearby workshop a goldsmith is making earrings of long , dull-faceted Afghan lapis lazuli and old Indian gold beads .
28 A car enthusiast has found a new way of making money out of Minis … he 's turning them into furniture.He 's making sofas which he calls driving seats … and they 're selling all over the world.Richard Barnett reports :
29 First : the purpose of the blood is to make atonement .
30 Derry 's October Fest is making plans to bring Co-Motion Theatre Company back to the North with Pat McCabe 's too-fab-for-words ‘ Frank Pig Says Hello ’ .
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