Example sentences of "make of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , then , can one make of the various explanations for the growth of government' ? |
| 2 | What can we make of the corporatist perspective on British politics , and just how stable is the pattern of politics which is suggested by those who point to close collaborative arrangements between particular interests and the state in pursuit of ever more state intervention ? |
| 3 | Contact with famous name international firms undoubtedly encourages local manufacturers , impressed by the demonstration effect of the success of prestigious foreign firms , to consider seriously the uses they could make of the new technologies . |
| 4 | The only criticism one might make of the Labour party 's proposal is that it is not large enough . |
| 5 | How confident he is , or affects to be , about their disinterestedness , their alertness , the range of their sympathies , the use that they will make of the gentlest hint or nudge ! |
| 6 | I think that one of the outstanding erm criticisms that I would make of the whole programme , in research with animals , is the fact that only two licences have been revoked I think you said |
| 7 | Re-reading them today one is reminded of what nonsense these individuals make of the bitter squabbles between Snow and F. R. Leavis nearly a century later . |
| 8 | How the House is televised is important ; far more important is how the House is broadcast — the use the broadcasters make of the clean feed they are given . |
| 9 | The greatest criticism which reviewers made of the early drafts of the book was that it lacked cohesiveness . |
| 10 | Whilst I would commend you to study the German Staff Paper in its entirety , I would also draw your attention to its personal citation of AVM Bennett , and note the dateline March — 1944 : " This 35-year-old Australian — known as one of the most resourceful officers in the RAF — had distinguished himself as long ago as 1938 by a record long-range flight to South Africa … an example of his personal operational capabilities … may be cited in the attack which he made of the German Fleet base at Trondheim . " |
| 11 | One of the ways in which Upper Palaeolithic man differed from his predecessors lay in the use he made of the skeletal structures of his food animals . |
| 12 | It seems that they are not gods exactly , but made of the same stuff as gods . |
| 13 | But to sit here , like one of the effeminate fools smirking over there or , worse still , like Antonini and Ferrante and the others he 'd spotted , who boasted of the conquests they made of the long-legged girls who dreamed of jewels and furs and sold themselves so easily — to sit here , to even be in the same room with such men , made him feel filthy . |
| 14 | A search will reveal : ( a ) Whether the property is in an area of compulsory registration ( question 18 made of the local authority will also give you this information ) ; ( b ) whether the freehold or leasehold title is registered ; ( c ) if the title is unregistered , whether any cautions against first registration or priority notice is registered . |
| 15 | Application is made on Form 96 and costs £6. ( d ) Action on receipt of reply As when considering the answer to question 18 made of the local authority , consider whether any unregistered disposition of the property for value has been made since registration of title became compulsory . |
| 16 | This is a figure you 're likely to achieve quite often if liberal use is made of the fifth gear which comes as standard . |
| 17 | The use that will be made of the online information retrieval systems depends in part on the education of users about the availability and functioning of this method of information retrieval . |
| 18 | A quick survey was made of the various functions in the 1992–93 calendar of events and some allocated to different members of committee . |
| 19 | A quick survey was made of the various functions in the 1993 -93 calendar of events and some allocated to different members of committee . |
| 20 | This allowed an evaluation to be made of the possible effect pre-entry study on performance . |
| 21 | A major problem with early computers was the question of reliability ; pessimistic forecasts were made of the mean time to failure of assemblies of several thousand valves , and a prime consideration in designing a computer was to make it as simple as possible . |
| 22 | Above all , use was made of the great lake in front of the palace , the famous Étang des Carpes , where some of the fish were reputed to have been swimming since the days of Francis I. All sorts of pleasure boats were at the disposal of the guests , ranging from a Venetian gondola to a miniature frigate of the French navy — the latter the pride and joy of the Prince Imperial . |
| 23 | The principles of electromagnetism had been established by the late eighteenth century , but it was not until the mid-nineteenth century that any sort of measurements could be made of the small currents produced by living tissue . |
| 24 | The magnetic field generated in the Moon by the action of the solar wind enables the electrical currents flowing in the Moon to be deduced , and this enables rough estimates to be made of the internal temperatures , the higher the temperatures the greater the currents for a given solar wind field . |
| 25 | Much has been made of the disciplinary power of the market for managerial services . |
| 26 | Scarcity value apart , the Stag is made of the right stuff by classic yardsticks . |
| 27 | He might drive for Italians , but he could n't be made of the right stuff . |
| 28 | Subalterns posted to the Indian Army were expected to kill a tiger in order to prove that they were made of the right stuff . |
| 29 | Keeping your head above water is half the secret in sport and young Karen Rake seems to be made of the right stuff . |
| 30 | or how about Ray Wilkins … still playing of course in the premier league but he 's surely made of the right stuff to be a manager … |