Example sentences of "we [vb mod] make [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Whatever the truth , it is to be allowed that in speaking of them as effects in the ordinary way , to the extent we do , we may make use of a conception other than the one we have been examining .
2 Erm , my fourth one was the effect on the medical centre , bearing in mind , but I did n't say that at the time , that there 's to be no longer sheltered , and there could be young families , remember , more rowdy an element , and maybe we should make details of that .
3 Since we know that the periodicity of some variables is longer than the monitoring already carried out by human beings , we must make use of surrogate or proxy variables to extend our range of knowledge ( such as via tree rings , palynology , oxygen isotope ratios from ice cores and geomorphological evidence of environmental change ) ;
4 We must make use of microelectronic technology .
5 To explain this type of unemployment more fully , we must make use of a model of the economy within which the level of DD unemployment is determined .
6 I am writing to ask you whether we might make use of an item broadcast by ITN on 22 March 1989 .
7 To combat the opposite extreme of jerry-building , we would make membership of the Housebuilders ' Registration Council 's register compulsory upon all contractors for local authority houses , with a view to rendering the building industry eventually an industry subject throughout to publicly-approved standards .
8 I do not think either that we can make sense of the Devil in the language of contemporary philosophy or science ; on the other hand neither do I believe that we should try and invent a modern mythology that makes the Devil more credible and accessible .
9 What we can do is attempt to get hold of the rules of the game so that we can make sense of a game as it is played .
10 Radcliffe-Brown , however , elegantly shows us how we can make sense of all this without invoking the tenuous spectre of an earlier ‘ matriarchal ’ stage which he points out would actually have quite the opposite influence .
11 It is in virtue of such rules that we can make sense of the idea that we are objectively correct to call the new sensation a pain .
12 She might have agreed with my friend Roger Hinks — who , after his unmerited disgrace over the too energetic cleaning of the Elgin Marbles , left the British Museum to work for years for the British Council — that the compensation for having acquaintances is that we can make game of them with our friends .
13 You see we can not always help who our brothers and sisters are but we can make alliances of people on issues of liberation and freedom that goes beyond that narrow family relationship and develops into a very solid alliance that helps to change situations .
14 These are things that we can measure ; we can make measurements of the welfare of an animal ; the term ‘ welfare ’ refers to its state , and its state in particular in respect of its attempts to cope with its environment .
15 There is a range of behavioural methods which animals use to try to cope with the conditions , and again we can make measurements of how much they are having to use these .
16 We can make use of regular solution theory to obtain an expression for ΔH M where this change in energy is assumed to arise from the formation of new solvent-polymer ( 1–2 ) contacts on mixing which replace some of the ( 1–1 ) and ( 2–2 ) contacts present in the pure solvent , and the pure polymer components respectively .
17 Another er important point is that now we can make use of text books that were not available in the past , we got a lot of help from er West German publishing houses , because they provided East German English teachers with er text books , with cassettes and other teaching material , er and that will help to improve the whole teaching situation in that part of Germany .
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