Example sentences of "be [noun sg] [prep] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | A solicitor may not accept instructions in a matter in which to his knowledge another solicitor has been retained without the consent of that other solicitor , nor should a solicitor instructed in a particular matter communicate directly with anyone who has retained a solicitor on the other side , though a direct approach may be justified if there has been difficulty in making contact with that solicitor . |
| 2 | There had long been resistance to making him a saint due to his open contempt for Christian domestic morality ( he had lived with concubines after the death of his last wife ) . |
| 3 | The Belfast Action Teams ( BATs ) , for example , which are part of Making Belfast Work , say they exist to fund innovation ; however , a lot of people are suspicious of this claim . |
| 4 | With the exception of the computer industry , little effort seems to have been made to develop new industries ; instead there has been concentration on making our existing industries more efficient and competitive . |
| 5 | However if you say erm oh well you know erm boys will be boys that 's natural , tha that sounds as if you 're kind of making excuses for them and condoning them , so I think you 've got to be very careful about how you use the word natural and clearly it raises the whole question of how far you can , you can push erm cultural ideals against natural constraints an and what really is the issue . |
| 6 | But it is unjust that the individual 's right of access to the courts should be restricted solely on the ground that there has been delay in making the application . |
| 7 | The cost saving in the preventative work , er , fall falls later on in the system , and that might not even accrue back to local government , and that 's the problem and I think if there was some specific erm , government grants that enabled local authorities to really get to grips with the preventative elements and could should that , that reduced overall government spending on the other end , on the impact end , I mean , I think we would be , we would be sort of making very much headway , but there does n't seem to be that specific initiative at this particular stage . |
| 8 | You should never be party to making anyone else do anything they do n't want to . |
| 9 | It is part of making sure your whole body is fit . |
| 10 | This is part of making sense of the world and of our experience in it . |
| 11 | So he 's kind of making a joke about it but there is a serious point there as well . |
| 12 | We also need one person in each group who 's crap at making paper aeroplanes . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's my problem , ’ Hari said firmly , ‘ what I want from you is help in making the shoes , perhaps you could work a few evenings for me ? ’ |
| 14 | It would n't be so bad , er she 's not a nervous type normally and it 's the only person that 's sort of made her go completely nervous . |
| 15 | Well a ponch er it 's sort of made of wood , and got a got a handle crosswise which you held in one half of it in each hand , it had a stem , and on the on the ponch itself was a sort of er piece of wood that had been er cut out to have about four , I think it was four , legs on this , you see and you used to stand over the ponch and |
| 16 | And of course , when this all happened , and I 'm listening to what people are saying tonight , it 's it 's sort of making me feel a bit sick what they 're saying . |
| 17 | Erm , obviously one needs to change peoples ideas or change the way we do things or whatever , erm two relevant position that 's sort of making them believe in what they 're trying to erm , propose , and getting commitment at the end . |
| 18 | It was not a conscious avoidance of the Debtors Prison but the more positive , good-humoured attitude which was part of Making Your Bed and Lying On It . |
| 19 | The very anonymity of everybody else in their entourage was part of making clear who was in charge . |
| 20 | As captain of Surrey for a dozen seasons , Fender was expert at making bricks without straw or , to be more precise , winning matches without bowlers on perfect Oval pitches . |
| 21 | One person whose eye he did catch was Patrick McGoohan , who recommended him for the role of cabin boy John Drake in Sir Francis Drake , a twenty-six-part adventure series made by ITC , whose boss , Lew Grade , was expert at making programmes that would sell to America ; one of them was Danger Man , starring McGoohan . |