Example sentences of "make [adj] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Miss Patricia Rawlings , Tory Euro-MP for Essex South-West , made light of the ideological distinctions . |
| 2 | Torrential rain greeted England 's first appearance in Wales for eight seasons , but the visitors made light of the slippery conditions . |
| 3 | He talked of the future ; he made light of the present and its difficulties until Lucy lost sight of them too . |
| 4 | Those who deal with firearms are generally aware of the attendant risks , and the days when those involved in motoring and other forms of transport could make light of the risks to life have now long passed , as various air , sea , rail , and road disasters have occurred . |
| 5 | My son , do not make light of the Lord 's discipline , and do not lose heart when he rebukes you , because the Lord disciplines those he loves , and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son . |
| 6 | Putting it this simply does not make light of the doubt but takes it very seriously . |
| 7 | would make light of the whole affair , |
| 8 | He was apprenticed 2 December 1712 to Samuel Wastell , a London goldsmith , and made free of the Goldsmiths ' Company by service on 16 June 1720 . |
| 9 | Allied spokesmen make light of the fact that so many enemy aircraft remain intact . |
| 10 | But the Bartók Quartet , whose recordings of the Beethoven Quartets have won great acclaim , make light of the considerable technical demands . |
| 11 | Chiddingfold made light of the windy conditions to gain an easy win over visitors Hale . |
| 12 | He was made free of the company in 1649 . |
| 13 | Bate was made free of the Spectaclemakers ' Company by redemption in 1814 . |
| 14 | Rundell was made free of the Drapers ' Company by redemption on 15 May 1771 . |
| 15 | ( ii ) Forwards pruning : estimates are made on-line of the possible utility of later information . |
| 16 | The First World War was the first to touch civilians as well as combatants , and , for the first time , the British authorities were made conscious of the need to raise public morale . |
| 17 | The First World War was the first to touch civilians as well as combatants , and , for the first time , the British authorities were made conscious of the need to raise public morale . |
| 18 | They had made sure of the few proprietors between there and Dunkeld ; the Duke of Atholl 's authority was weaker here ; tomorrow would be the hard day when they made a drive up to Moulin and Faskally : perhaps they should go and terrify them now while darkness made them lonely ? |
| 19 | He had made sure of the Jew this time , and the whore . |
| 20 | It 's they who must be made proud of the area they live in . ’ |
| 21 | Air Vice-Marshal A D Dick , chairman of 30 Squadron Association , in an appeal for relatives to be made aware of the memorial 's existence , recalls that Squadron Leader Edward Howell , the 33 Squadron commander , was critically wounded in the battle and nearly died . |
| 22 | British staffs were also made aware of the progress being made in the development of two mobile strategic missiles in the United States : the US Air Force 's bomber-launched Skybolt missile ; and its rival , the US Navy 's submarine-launched Polaris . |
| 23 | Often only after the transaction has been completed will the customer be made aware of the commission involved — sometimes up to 10 per cent of the amount being changed . |
| 24 | The latter , through mass media and education , are made aware of the ‘ new ’ but are unable to attain this . |
| 25 | It was only when two alert Windscale scientists found hot spots of radioactivity in their gardens that the authorities were made aware of the problem . |
| 26 | Pupils need to be made aware of the subtler uses of language , and of the appropriate uses of figures of speech . |
| 27 | 17.46 By building on the experiences of earlier key stages pupils should be made aware of the following range of functions of writing : ( a ) — primarily to communicate meaning to others : reporting , narrating , persuading , arguing , describing , instructing , explaining ; ( b ) — for thinking and learning : recollecting , organising thoughts , reconstructing , reviewing , hypothesising ; ( c ) — using language in aesthetic and imaginative ways . |
| 28 | Moreover , this sense of insecurity and consequent bias towards caution may be further reinforced by the fact that very often the sort of decisions we are discussing are made in hospitals , where doctors are made aware of the views and reactions of another interested group , the nursing staff . |
| 29 | To my mind it 's a pity you did n't take that attitude when you were first made aware of the situation , because when I returned from next door you were still yelling your head off at her and painting a vivid picture of what her life would be with an illegitimate child tacked on to her . |
| 30 | During one of Malmesbury 's two brief periods at the Foreign Office he was dramatically made aware of the state of the building , when part of the ceiling of his room fell on to his desk . |