Example sentences of "[noun pl] make them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nature of the backward and forward linkages in many external development and investment programmes make them inappropriate , on their own , as a means of tackling the problems of DRAs . |
| 2 | They asked : were there really no girls in youth cultures and street gangs or had sociological accounts made them invisible ? |
| 3 | Comparing them with such stupid birds made them less alarming , somehow less powerful . |
| 4 | However , there was available to them an unlimited quantity of quality seasoned wood , excellent metals and fabrics , and sound examples of rare stone , all worked by men whose seven-year apprenticeships made them masters of their craft . |
| 5 | This addition to the maps made them more useful , especially for agricultural purposes , but it entailed resurveying ground already covered and slowed the progress of subsequent work . |
| 6 | Many birds give alarm calls to warn of danger , but it is not certain whether the acoustic properties of the alarm calls make them difficult to locate . |
| 7 | The top-rope on the first two pitches made them possible , and then we worked upwards , forcing tired bodies to perform and tired minds to keep them safe . |
| 8 | ‘ Pineapple pyramids : I always felt that the Jews made them to mourn all the slaves before them that the Egyptians had broken with building their mighty pyramids . ’ |
| 9 | Other speakers seemed to be relatively exposed to standardizing mainstream influences , in that they had contracted few personal ties which were likely to exert normative pressure on their behaviour ; but in any case the geographical spread of the ties contracted by most Braniel speakers made them difficult to investigate . |
| 10 | On the contrary peacocks do n't live long in the wild because of those enormous tails make them easy to catch for predators . |
| 11 | Those who could n't read the words made them up , and Tich , who 'd lost his glasses , settled for singing ‘ Widecombe Fair ’ instead , coughing , spluttering and relishing his last night out . |
| 12 | The main point is that even when examples could be non-sex specific , these books make them sex specific . |
| 13 | The behaviour of Violet Needham 's young characters and the patterns and manners in her books make them period pieces nowadays ; her prim , earnest , winning girls and ardent , courteous boys are as alien to our times as Marco Lorestan is . |
| 14 | The fine analysis of the DH sites upstream of the Ea gene has been hampered by the presence of repetitive/unstable sequences making them difficult to subclone , and thereby reduce the upstream regions to an absolute minimum as in the β-Globin LCR studies ( 14 ) . |
| 15 | The smoke blows in my eyes making them water and sting , so I get up , move and freeze my ass off sitting beyond the smoke in the wind up the valley . |
| 16 | Their acidic characteristics makes them particularly suitable for the dairy industry , breweries and soft drink manufacturers . |
| 17 | What makes it look all the more daft is that they will often have to wear the same number tabard all the way through , which over top hat and tails makes them look like someone wearing his vest over his dinner jacket . |
| 18 | Suppose a judge then announces , in the style of law as integrity , that the precedents do establish a right to damages because that reading of the precedents makes them in retrospect morally sounder . |
| 19 | The durability of these cars makes them a prime target for clockers and is another reason to insist on up-to-date service schedules . |
| 20 | The abundance of alkanes makes them particularly attractive starting materials for industrial processes . |
| 21 | You had to frighten kids to make them behave , but there was no need to scare them too much . |
| 22 | You can stamp on toes , feet or shins ; knee him in the thigh or groin ; grab and squeeze testicles or pinch the soft inside of thighs along the trouser seam ; elbow him or her in the ribs or stomach if the person is behind you , or knee them in the belly if in front ; grab the little finger of one of the hands that is holding you round the waist or arms , and bend it backwards , forcing him or her to let go ; bite the side of the neck or slap a cheek or ear ; bash the nose with the front or back of your head ; force the head back by pressing your fingers up nostrils or squeezing the flats of your thumbs into eyes ; or even spit into eyes to make them blink . |
| 23 | The warriors hurled themselves at the heads or horns of their animals to make them lie down . |
| 24 | Be careful that the words sound the way they do normally , because it 's very easy when you pronounce individual words to make them sound odd . |
| 25 | When object-oriented database systems become more widely available , there may be a number of application domains where their advantages make them a good choice . |
| 26 | The failure of any of the interviewers to ask the politicians about these dangerous and difficult matters made them all seem like collaborators in the politicians ' games . |
| 27 | The Stanleys were careful to place themselves at the head of local opinion rather than ride the county roughshod and their identity of opinion with local Unionists on political and religious matters made them even more powerful . |
| 28 | Personal experiences made them reject the new truism that the children of fatherless families become delinquent . |
| 29 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 30 | He clearly saw that the extended nature of Rommel 's supply lines made them extremely vulnerable to attack and that destruction of port facilities would severely limit his ability to wage war . |