Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outstanding among those contributions are his Math Vab Mathonwy ( 1928 ) and Rhiannon ( 1953 ) which , in spite of some evident shortcomings , particularly a failure on the author 's part to make sufficient use of the comparative method , testify to Gruffydd 's originality of mind , his general perceptiveness , and his clarity of exposition . |
| 2 | The woman 's sister made an appointment for both to go to a birth control clinic , but in the end neither attended . |
| 3 | John was silent , perhaps because of this rather daunting information , the proximity of Ianthe 's aunt 's sister making his room on Campden Hill seem rather less likely . |
| 4 | Does dismissal of God 's existence make for greater openness and enquiry , or does it have the effect of closing the door on trying to understand what is strange or threatening to itself which might be , for example , the claims of other religions ? |
| 5 | She dragged her eyes from the paper to the bed and the deathly whiteness of Lizzy 's skin made her spring into action . |
| 6 | There was also evidence that clerks took part in the tribunal 's decision making ( Lister , 1975 ) . |
| 7 | This did not fit with the idea of ‘ collaborative activities ’ which we had set out with because we had formulated our questions in terms of the teacher 's decision making . |
| 8 | But , up in the , there the migrant 's decision making process will be , is this area here right , is that area there , greater than that area there . |
| 9 | Moreover , the government 's decision to make SEMS responsible for developing minicomputers added to the problems of Cii-Honeywell Bull . |
| 10 | In his review for Vanity Fair Pare Lorentz argued that all the minor characters in I am a Fugitive were caricatures and that the film had been spoilt by the director 's decision to make the fugitive a hero and to tell the story through him rather than making the actual prison system the central focus of the film . |
| 11 | Students in London have suffered particularly badly because of the Government 's decision to make students ineligible for housing benefit . |
| 12 | It is therefore quite wrong for Maurice Cowling , whose account of the crisis is by far the best , to write of ‘ The King 's decision to make Baldwin stay in office . ’ |
| 13 | An appeal may be made against a court 's decision to make or refuse to make an order pending appeal . |
| 14 | With limited narrative it shows Iris 's inability to make sense of the world , whether at work , at home or socially . |
| 15 | Labour 's inability to make progress in London as a whole compared with 1986 disguised sharp differences between the boroughs . |
| 16 | One 's inability to make better speed on a scrambling descent seems as paradoxical as it is frustrating . |
| 17 | Despite this tension , there is also a refusal to examine curricula or practices : student failure , therefore , is the fault of the student 's inability to make the necessary sympathetic adjustment to the requirements of literary judgement ; not the failure of the departments in setting those requirements . |
| 18 | Examples are La Male Honte , noted already , and Les deux Anglois et l'anel , " The two Englishmen and the anel " , which turns around a joke based on an Englishman 's inability to make a[g]nel ( lamb ) distinct from a[s]niel ( young ass ) in his attempt to speak French . |
| 19 | The two men 's inability to make common cause illustrated one of the main reasons why the government had less to fear from oppositionists than the radical manifestos of 1861 – 2 appeared to suggest . |
| 20 | McClair survived a dismal autumn — dropped by Scotland , dropped by Ferguson and then everybody 's favourite to make way for Cantona . |
| 21 | The 18-year-old 's enthusiasm made the first and third chances for Hendrie after 51 and 66 minutes . |
| 22 | Richardson 's enthusiasm made his visits great fun , but he could be brusque . |
| 23 | Sara 's story made sense ; it made sense in the context of Alfred 's bizarre existence . |
| 24 | He adds that the Greek government 's assessment makes no allowance for evaporation and calculates the reduction in the amount of water reaching the wetlands on the basis of the present total flow rather than on the present volume reaching Missolonghi . |
| 25 | Inside , the palace 's splendour made Ranulf catch his breath . |
| 26 | ( The concessions related to the defendant 's entitlement to make use of any recollection they might have of the names and addresses of the plaintiff 's customers as well as the most convenient routes by which the premises of such customers could be reached . |
| 27 | Perhaps she could have a little porch built over the side door and a bit could be cut off Lizzie 's kitchen to make a small hall . |
| 28 | Then cosmologists began to revise their estimates of the percentage of the Universe 's mass made up by ‘ dark matter ’ which could not be directly observed — including black holes and pulsars . |
| 29 | Harry 's accent makes him think of Vienna , and Vienna of E. H. Gombrich . |
| 30 | Christmas in an hotel room is n't everyone 's idea of bliss , but Kenneth 's presence makes it home , and we spend the morning sitting in bed listening to a carol service on the radio , watching Walt Disney and nibbling on an assortment of Marks and Spencer goodies before the heat of the room rendered them inedible . |