Example sentences of "make [prep] " in BNC.

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1 No statement which you make during the interview may be given in evidence against you unless : ( a ) you are prosecuted for making a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular ; or ( b ) you are prosecuted for some other offence and when giving evidence , you make a statement which is inconsistent with a statement made during the interview .
2 The difference between the two poets corresponds ( not quite exactly , because the nature and history of French verse differs so greatly from English ) to the distinction that the French make between vers libre and vers libéré ; between , we may say , free verse and freed verse .
3 This lends further significance to the distinction Easton 's section police make between ‘ big ’ and ‘ little ’ crime .
4 The correlation which Morgan and Engels make between very simple agriculture and herding and the gentile constitution is a rare example of a proposition of this kind which has held up fairly well in the light of recent research .
5 The distinction we make between past , present , and future refer to the transitional nature of time .
6 Because of the odd separations we make between qualitative and quantitative aspects of planning , enrolments tend to be regarded as the purview of the educational administrator .
7 It follows that ‘ those sensations must be all that we can , at bottom , mean by their attributes ; and the distinction which we verbally make between the properties of things and the sensations we receive from them , must originate in the convenience of discourse rather than in the nature of what is signified by the terms ’ .
8 It ignores the obvious discriminations which we make between similar treatment of different species within the animal kingdom .
9 Strawson is surely right to emphasise the distinction we currently make between what we regard as non-intentional and intentional behaviour , and to remind us that we react to these categories in very different ways .
10 The distinction which each of these writers make between forms of the state provide the normativist with a justification for viewing the positive state as a degenerate form .
11 They are , in brief , of the form If A , even if X , then still B. ( 1.4 ) Certain facts stated by the latter conditionals , together with effects being taken as later in time , are all that is needed to explain the difference we find or make between causal circumstances and causes on the one hand , and , on the other , their effects .
12 The implicit recognition of this in their work is obscured by the distinction they make between ‘ direct experience ’ and more ‘ abstract ’ ‘ underlying ’ causes which can not be grasped at the level of immediate experience .
13 It matters a great deal , and I want in this chapter to sketch out some of the implications of this inviolable link which the New Testament writers make between Jesus and the Spirit .
14 Peavey currently make between 150,000 and 160,000 amplifiers a year .
15 I shall answer his question directly : we do not believe that the information should be denied to parents , but we believe that crude performance tables should not be used to distort the choices that parents make between different schools in Scotland , as would be the case if the Bill were implemented .
16 Peavey currently make between 150,000 and 160,000 amplifiers a year .
17 The first paragraph , for example , comes from p. 10 and the second from p. 13 ; and all the connections Leech and Short make between these pages have been lost , with the result that it is not clear how the first paragraph leads to the second paragraph .
18 The ‘ endless way of the last lines extends the travelling into a metaphor for the journey we make through life ( compare The Pilgrim 's Progress ) .
19 If the pharmaceutical industry is really concerned about the economics of health care they would be better to curb the profits that they make through drugs sold to the NHS for which the charges are not infrequently excessive .
20 And the cost savings that result — which come on top of the remarkable savings you make through buying director from CompuAdd .
21 It follows that behind every statement we make about the historical Jesus there has to be a tacit qualification : ‘ We are told this by such-and-such an evangelist , writing in a particular literary mode , far a particular audience , in a particular place at a particular period of history . ’
22 Mistakes which they make about factors which determine the limits of their jurisdiction render their decisions void .
23 Therefore , whatever ‘ calculations ’ the parasite genes make about optimal policy , in any department of life , will converge on exactly , or nearly exactly , the same optimal policy as similar ‘ calculations ’ made by host genes .
24 Write down the claims the manufacturers make about their products .
25 Think about the comments you make about people you know — both people you particularly like , and those who cause you stress and heartache .
26 The princess could receive income from the Duchy of Cornwall which make about Pounds 3 million a year for Prince Charles , who voluntarily surrenders 25 per cent in tax .
27 While societies do themselves construct devices for specialising and separating out levels of meaning , this does not mean that they ever achieve in reality the claims that they make about such discourse .
28 No one fully understands the workings of these interlocking systems and we may forgive ourselves for having a sensation of something slipping through our fingers when we try to grasp them — but one thing is certain : the choices we make about the order of the information in discourse reveal our own assumptions about the world and about the people we are trying to communicate with .
29 The ‘ facts ’ of a pollution , like other forms of deviance , do not exist independently of the interpretative judgments which enforcement agents make about them .
30 But the immediate problem confronting him , of course , is how to explain the assumption that we normally make about the causal link between experiences and bodily states .
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