Example sentences of "[adv] make [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ports , such as Harfleur , at the mouth of the Seine , could develop ship-building facilities , and the control of the lower Seine effectively made Rouen into a sea port and a shipyard . |
| 2 | Since a large fraction of the stock market is held by pension funds and insurance companies which will eventually make payments to workers , monopoly profits may indirectly pay income to some relatively poor people . |
| 3 | You can more or less make soup from anything , though a good home-made stock adds a certain flavour . |
| 4 | Many animals that do not inhabit the especially favoured areas all the time , none the less make use of them in the course of their lives . |
| 5 | Thus one exalts facts , the other the imagination ; both conceal the extent to which they necessarily make use of the other 's procedures . |
| 6 | As chairman of this group , I obviously have financial people , accountants , treasury people , lawyers , personnel people , property people and so on who all make part of a team . |
| 7 | Readability researchers often emphasise that it is not possible to use a formula to assess difficulty at the individual sentence level ; a formula or graph can only make predictions about difficulty at a global level . |
| 8 | But do n't go around being cross or you 'll only make enemies for yourself . |
| 9 | After all , one can only make peace with one 's enemies . |
| 10 | In future Castle will only make provision for amortisation of audio copyrights for permanent diminution in value . |
| 11 | Many Foundations etc. can only make donations to non profit-making organisations , 2 . |
| 12 | What we also see is a description of this underlying God which can only make sense in personal terms . |
| 13 | Similarly we can only make inferences about the nature of learning from observing these changes . |
| 14 | She 's told him trying to get her back may only make life in Pakistan more difficult for her . |
| 15 | On fixed frames , the weaver can only make rugs in sizes smaller than the inner dimensions of the frame ; adjustable frames allow one or more of the beams to be extended so that larger items can be woven . |
| 16 | Under the current wording of the legislation , companies can only make profits from supplying electricity and building new power stations . |
| 17 | Thinking can only make use of the patterns we have acquired in the past . |
| 18 | As Bateson ( 1973 ) argues , the psychological frame appropriate in discussing play or games is more akin to a picture frame than to the logical frame of a mathematical set : what is outside the picture frame is irrelevant and one can only make judgements of comparison and contrast on matters within the frame . |
| 19 | You could feel the crowd willing it in but it did n't make it and I was beginning to feel it was slipping away , and especially when we could only make par at the 17th . |
| 20 | Oh , better make space for my money , what ! |
| 21 | If he has n't the will or the stomach to do that , he had better make way for someone who has before millions intended to help this country are thrown away . |
| 22 | We do obviously make grants to youth clubs and organizations . |
| 23 | Such policies only make sense to the corporate investors and stem from the perceived need to avoid integrating the industry in any but the core capitalist countries . |
| 24 | Among the pairs children learned , at least in my day , were items like black/white ( which only make sense as antonyms if you have studied physics ) , north/south ( ditto ) , day/night ( though in the context of fashion , the appropriate opposition is day/evening ) and long/short ( like old/ young , a continuum or pseudo-opposite ) . |
| 25 | His steady stream of speeches , interviews and policy interventions only make sense as a bid for the leadership . |
| 26 | As they are practised in the modern world , high-level teaching and research only make sense in institutions . |
| 27 | ‘ They only make love on the twenty-ninth of February , ’ said Hyacinth , ‘ and then only when it rains . ’ |
| 28 | The Minoan belief-system was extremely complex and we can , in the absence of detailed , first-hand , documentary evidence , only make inferences about it . |
| 29 | The rubrics in the 1662 Order for the Burial of the Dead only make mention of the ‘ corpse ’ or ‘ body ’ : ‘ The Priest and Clerks , meeting the Corpse at the entrance of the Church-yard … . ’ ; |
| 30 | Some colour combinations clash or make parts of the screen unreadable , so make notes of any changes you make . |