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

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1 In spite of a keen desire to reach greater heights , progress is hindered by poor practice methods which make improvement slow and frustrating .
2 Methods which make use of a combination of sensory inputs are likely to be more effective than those which relay on a single channel of communication .
3 Nevertheless teaching methods which make use of a combination of sensory inputs are likely to be more effective than those which rely on a single channel of communication .
4 Savour the culinary delights of the Orient , Mexico , Italy and France from the quayside restaurants which make Port Solent a gourmet 's paradise .
5 Once damp has affected walls it deposits hygroscopic salts on the surface , leaving white salty tidemarks which make detection all the easier .
6 Er and it is that minority of unscrupulous traders who make life very difficult for you and of course make life very difficult for Trading Standards .
7 There was treachery even in the executive branch of William 's government : as Paul Hopkins has shown , Jacobites received constant information from the secretaries ' clerks on warrants and charges against them , and the messengers who made arrests and detained prisoners were often not reliable .
8 Clients who make money with licensed dealers , by accident or design , imagine this is what usually happens .
9 From boys ' own beauty to designers who make scents — all for you
10 Our National President , Steve Gauld , closed the Convention and we offered our thanks and gratitude to all those who had made the weekend such a success , to Tim Cain who kept all the sessions to time ; to the exhibitors who supported us so well ; to all the members and outside speakers who made presentations ; to the staff of Keele University who served us so well in all areas ; and to Joe Bennett who organised the whole thing , sorted out the speakers , took our bookings and generally made sure it all went well .
11 Table 1 gives some more detail , in this we exclude all subjects who made losses in excess of £10 .
12 Evans ' caution , however , is understandable , and until the effectiveness or otherwise of more elaborate organizations could be tested in a variety of settings it made sense to list more modest requirements for supportive bases to innovative and resource-based work .
13 Chapter 7 described some of the reasons which made Aplysia a strategic choice for researching the neurobiology of certain basic forms of memory formation .
14 In 1789 there were a dozen different States which made use of Swiss units ; and probably one Swiss in every twelve of military age was serving in a foreign army in time of peace .
15 An underside view of the extended hand of a bat showing the webbed fingers which make flight possible .
16 One example is a course on building and construction skills which makes use of ‘ in-fill places ’ but is run on an outreach basis by the College using Braunstone Training Workshops as a base .
17 Further down the street was Young 's Timber Yard having a narrow entrance under the bedrooms of adjoining houses which made deliveries difficult .
18 The timber and stone houses which made towns like Brunswick , Nuremberg , Frankfurt and Hildesheim so attractive have nearly all disappeared .
19 Children often play with them as representational toys ( despite their different scales which make comparisons difficult ) .
20 The substance to be odorous must have a measure of volatility , so that it constantly loses molecules which make contact with the olfactory sensitive region of the nose .
21 This brings us inevitably to international law : the rules which make agreements between states binding ; the rules which seek to limit from the outside the kinds of actions which states may take in relation to each other and provide a framework within which they may negotiate .
22 Then , for more than 300 years until the legions left , the Romans ruled Britain , bringing their talent for organisation to the country , building roads which made travel easier , and all the time controlling the province through the administration of Roman law — backed up by the powerful legions of the Roman army .
23 Even so there is still some dragging of feet which makes things like the implementation of standards which could be used across , not only C&P , but ICI as a whole , something that still belongs to the future .
24 Using the intervallic interchange exercise from last month 's article — Gmaj7 to Ebmaj7th — I have written out four short melodic phrases which make use of chromatic approach notes as a means of connecting this single chord change .
25 He had been most concerned with the inequality of provision between rural and urban areas which made tests of attainment a massive handicap for rural or impoverished urban children .
26 The exhibition describes the architectural development of Edinburgh and how this was influenced by Europe , with illustrations and explanations of the many buildings and areas which make Edinburgh a truly European capital city — particularly Holyrood Palace , Edinburgh Castle , the Old Town , New Town , Royal Mile and the port of Leith .
27 In recent years a number of economists have developed models which make price stickiness and the ensuing failure of markets to clear central to their analysis .
28 ‘ It is your duty , girls , to make your new colleagues feel at home here , ’ ' Portia suddenly said in stentorian tones which made Marie-Hélène burst out in giggles .
29 I regularly argue with the Table Office that we can table amendments to Bills which make provision for orders that are amendable because of the census legislation .
30 The plaintiff , a local authority , brought an action for damages for libel against the defendants in respect of certain newspaper articles which made allegations in relation to share dealings involving the investment of moneys from the local authority 's superannuation fund , sometimes by a complex series of deals , in companies connected with or controlled by a businessman .
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