Example sentences of "of [det] [noun pl] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | It depends upon the precise accuracy of some observations made in 1715 under the direction of Sir Edmond Halley , later Astronomer Royal and known to this day for the comet that bears his name . |
| 2 | Likewise , the floating vote might be indicative of some electors making up their own minds on the issues of the day ; it might equally reflect pressure brought to bear " from above " , perhaps by those attached to the Court who wanted a change in the complexion of the House of Commons , to " persuade " those electors to change their allegiances . |
| 3 | However , having made the above comment , it must be stated that in the early 1980s the external debt situation of some LDCs made banks more cautious in their dealings with smaller and less well known banks and financial centres . |
| 4 | Looking at all the brightest and best on display in Birmingham , I was reminded of some comments made in the early '80s by the late Gordon Brown , then head of design for GM 's European passenger cars . |
| 5 | Even now , the National Curriculum notwithstanding , it still provides the basic framework for much professional discussion , and the culture of some schools makes the entertaining of alternatives difficult . |
| 6 | The presence of such oases made human travel and nomadic existence possible in arid lands . |
| 7 | The relatively small proportion ( 5% ) of such theses made it difficult to come to any statistically valid conclusions about the differences in use between Ph D and M Sc theses . |
| 8 | Their bleedings and leakages , their lumps and growths , their peculiarly painful-sounding surgical operations — scraping of wombs , stripping of veins , amputation of breasts — the mere mention of such things makes him wince and cringe , and lately the menopause has added new items to the repertory : the hot flush , flooding , and something sinister called a bloat . |
| 9 | With both the motive for the murder and the brave rescue Crime and Punishment sets the pattern for later Dostoevsky ; his post-Siberian notebooks swarm with admonitions like ‘ Decide the matter definitely one way or the other ’ , and with the X marks the spot of ‘ Here a podvig is achieved ’ ; and in the other novels , as in Crime and Punishment , the actual outcome of such promptings makes an interesting study . |
| 10 | The flexibility of such printers makes desk top publishing possible , and can also internationalise computer printout with non Latin fonts , such as Japanese characters . |
| 11 | A group of such households makes up a village and between such groups there is usually hostility from simple avoidance of one another to open warfare . |
| 12 | The regular salaries attached to the more important posts in the customs and excise administration , for example , were in themselves attractive to many voters in Scottish constituencies , and were the objects of a great deal of political negotiation , for this kind of appointment was the normal currency of management for the politician able to procure it , and the links between parliamentary politics and the disposal of such offices made the nominal right of appointment possessed by the boards of commissioners in Edinburgh somewhat illusory . |
| 13 | Extensive remains of the foundations of such temples make it relatively easy to establish their plan , but reconstruction of the superstructure is more speculative as almost all the walls and trabeation have disappeared . |
| 14 | Mr Brown 's respectful reception of these corkers made me wonder what he looks like . |
| 15 | The first of these enzymes makes an unusual series of oligonucleotide molecules with the general name of 2',5'-oligoadenylate . |
| 16 | On the basis of the government 's own estimates , all of these changes made 1.9 million pensioners aged 60–79 and 350,000 of those aged 80 and over worse off , the vast majority of them being women ( DHSS , 1985b ) . |
| 17 | 1990 was such a year , when successive waves of these birds made their appearance from late July until well through September . |
| 18 | The differing quality aspects of these zones make it impossible to specify a particular style of wine for Hautvillers . |
| 19 | Indeed , as the study of the law emerging from the application of these laws makes clear , it was the formalisation of war , bringing a set of rules to apply to its conduct , which men were trying to achieve . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A collection of these tags makes up a style sheet and , together with the skeleton document , are saved as a template . |
| 22 | As hardly any women smoke cigars of pipes , the inclusion of these products made no difference to the overall proportion of women smokers — 31% [ 1 ] . |
| 23 | This is because the exercise of these functions makes others dependent on their good faith and conscientiousness , and particularly vulnerable to exploitation by them . |
| 24 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 25 | Knowledge of these findings made a similar study , but with a focus solely upon mentally frail elderly people , an interesting proposition . |
| 26 | The chairmen of these committees made up a Board of Ministers . |
| 27 | This greatly aids management and the nature of these systems makes them very easy to tie into computer control . |
| 28 | This had went on and on and there was practically every blacksmith 's shop in Scotland would have one of these machines made by us . |
| 29 | Alan Holmer , head of the United States delegation , said that the adoption of these principles made it " more likely that current trends towards market economies and political pluralism will continue " , and was a signal to the West that Eastern Europe was now " open for business " . |
| 30 | But some of these substances make their way upstream , says Greenpeace , and mix with pesticides which have leached into the water from farmland , and other chemicals from firms legally allowed to discharge into the sewage system . |