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

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1 But this , as I have indicated , does not in all cases make for the construction of a more liberal society .
2 But these difficulties pale into insignificance when compared to those involved in equalising the use that different socio-economic groups make of the services .
3 To argue , therefore , that changes in newspapers — in their content , style , readership , etc. — may be undesirable ( e.g. ‘ deradicalization ’ , ‘ depoliticization ’ ) is to confuse that which one may desire ( and which may be socially desirable ) with the actual and real choices which individuals and groups make in the market-place .
4 Taking Norfolk as a case study , this project investigates the contribution which local authorities make in the area of job-creation through their provision of industrial premises .
5 the use of more sophisticated techniques to assess what listeners make of the speech .
6 Rather it studies the choices speakers make from the options available to them .
7 Slightly more personal is 60 ( ‘ Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore ’ ) , but only at the very last gasp , as it were , defeating time : ‘ And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand , /Praising thy worth , despite his cruel hand . ’
8 The Jubilee was celebrated by a District Rally held at the Guildhall in Cambridge and reflected the wide support the WEA continued to attract through speeches made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer ( R. A. Butler ) , the Provost of King 's College ( Sir John Sheppard ) , the Director of Education for Norfolk ( Dr. Lincoln Ralphs ) , the National Secretary of the WEA ( Harry Nutt ) and the former Chairman of the District ( Arthur Allen , MP for Wellingborough ) .
9 In assuming the title and arms of King of France in 1340 , he laid much stress on his God-given duty to recover his right , and in the speeches made by the Chancellor at the opening of parliament in the 1340s and 1350s the commons were asked to grant aids ‘ in pursuit of the king 's quarrel to recover his rights ’ , or in consideration of ‘ the pursuit of our right ’ .
10 The hon. Gentleman must be unaware that his party is now pledged to keep the nuclear deterrent , according to the speeches made by the hon. Member for Clackmannan ( Mr. O'Neill ) .
11 The speeches made by the representatives of member governments at the General Assembly were dominated by events in the Gulf [ see pp. 37631-41 ; 37694-97 ] .
12 Reformist ideas received further official sanction at an enlarged meeting of the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) politburo on Feb. 12 when general secretary Jiang Zemin , read out " important " speeches made by the now-retired paramount leader , Deng Xiaoping , during his recent tour of southern China [ see p. 38722 ] .
13 If you listen sometimes to speeches made by the Royal Family now , they are not necessarily to my mind and er this is this difficulty of the sort of humanity and effemininity of the Duchess of York and the Princess of Wales who tried I think , both of them , to do a phenomenal amount of public work with different levels of success and different levels of coverage .
14 Closed ranks would be USL 's pay-off for recent concessions made to the Open Software Foundation 's most important technologies .
15 Facilities It would be difficult to find a more complete package of accounting facilities than are presented in Financial Controller , but be warned , there are very few concessions made to the tyro book-keeper in terms of jargon , which is strangely at odds with the ethos of the program .
16 In terms of the concessions made by the French , the treaty can be interpreted as a success for the English , although historians have not always agreed about this .
17 This was because of the number of concessions made by the Minister , who on the whole gave a sympathetic response to many of the concerns expressed by members .
18 An axon is enlarged at the tip and this presynaptic area contains vesicles made from the same material as the cell membrane , containing the neurotransmitters that are released in the synapse .
19 Trips made under the Region 's Concessionary Travel Scheme decreased by 13% to 38 million between 1990/91 and 1991/92 .
20 The number of trips made under the Concessionary Travel Scheme will continue to be monitored and the relationship with the number of recorded casualties to elderly people studied .
21 We have also been involved in the trips made by the Prince of Wales to promote British industry abroad , most recently in Hong Kong , Korea and Mexico .
22 The nature of the formal shapes made by the dancers ' bodies and limbs as they move into and hold a picture must be evaluated .
23 Although the concessions met the demands made at the start of an unprecedented national protest campaign on June 10 , they now failed to satisfy the opposition , who responded by continuing to call for Ratsiraka 's resignation .
24 Because of the interesting , usually technical , demands made on the performers , their ballets often become testing grounds for future soloists .
25 As a result of high demands made on the soil and the lack of good fertilizer , yields are low .
26 This has underlined that the price of popularising rugby union has been the increase in pressures off the field , which can be as significant as the demands made on the players themselves .
27 A certain amount of daily exercise is essential to maintain proper body tone and function , but if you are quite unused to exercise it is necessary to build up the exercise levels gradually to allow the body to acclimatize to the increased level of activity and the increased demands made on the heart and lungs , the respiratory and skeletal muscles .
28 As the State 's military requirements increased and the number of pomeshchiks to be sustained multiplied , the demands made on the peasantry intensified .
29 The standard of service obtained by a lexicographer at a primary-use terminal is determined by various demands made on the configuration of equipment and software .
30 These reports summarise the demands made on the computer system over time , and indicate how well the system met those demands .
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