Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [conj] make " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Do n't repeat yourself ’ is an injunction placed upon us when we assemble our first stories and essays and make our first public utterances .
2 Looking for the most cost-effective approach , ERC 's highly qualified and experienced employees will make a thorough inspection of a customer 's used equipment , wellheads and valves and make repairs according to industry standards .
3 You wo n't sink into this sort of flooring but it has a neat appearance and will pull together a disparate collection of furniture and styles and make a roomful of old things look firmly set in the twentieth century .
4 Hailed as a kind of dominant world religion , science is a powerful tool some men have used to elevate themselves above other men , women , children , and the plants and animals that make up the world we live in .
5 but I can not emphasize too strongly that you should only choose furniture and furnishings that make you feel comfortable .
6 Whilst the system remains paper based , the actual certificates and bills that make up the instruments will be held in a safe custody vault at the CMO .
7 At 0300 hours on 30 June 1989 , 1st Battalion the Royal Scots found itself deployed into hides , along with the attached tanks , artillery and engineers that make up the Royal Scots battle group .
8 It is assumed that there is sufficient uniformity to facilitate the specification of situations and circumstances that make it more , or less , likely to occur .
9 Some extend in total darkness for miles and reveal displays of delicate carvings and formations that make water-action the greatest of all natural sculptors .
10 You will be semi-detached from the world around you for a wee while Wednesday and all the people and places that make up your life will take on a shadowy irrelevance until you come to terms with your own innermost thoughts and feelings .
11 This advantage stems from the fact that the companies and organisations that make up the market tend to be clustered together , for instance on a geographical basis , or by product type .
12 The scope of industrial The companies and organisations that make up goods markets industrial markets tend to be clustered together , whether by geographical region , or product ( or both ) .
13 take your love and promises and make them last .
14 So far as I knew I covered the area around my bowels , liver , one kidney and all the other bits and pieces that make up a living abdomen .
15 But if only 2½ per cent are on the land , they are supporting ( and rely on ) a vast population of industrial and commercial workers — over whom they have no control — who supply the machinery , power , feeding-stuffs , and fertilizers that make the specialization possible .
16 But there was not yet a drug invented , or ever likely to be , that could cope with all the different and complex actions and judgements that make up a round of tournament golf .
17 One was its desire to find some way not simply to get through the current hard times , but also to protect themselves from the financial ups and downs that make up every economic cycle .
18 Sex for Prince is n't ‘ communication ’ or ‘ exchange ’ but something altogether more mystical : the dissolution of the very differences and identities that make communication and sex possible .
19 Walk along a river , sit by the sea , stroll through the woods and start to analyse the components and blockages that make up your present existence .
20 ‘ First of all we will look at his numerical and mathematical ability which he has gained from reckoning areas from odd shaped bits of land and working out the number of trees they will take , and from his mother 's shopping expeditions , and we will reduce these to simple symbolic formulas and tables and make children learn a lot of them very quickly .
21 In particular , the relations of production are reflected and reproduced in the various institutions , values and beliefs that make up the superstructure .
22 If there are possible problems and conditions that make the company worried about how a partner will cope make it clear that you know what they are and that they are not problems to you .
23 By encouraging people to vote against the complex at elections it is expected that legislature will then be able to pass laws and regulations and make institutional changes which will expunge this cancerous growth from American society .
24 I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most .
25 The statements so arrived at ( I will call them observation statements ) then form the basis from which the laws and theories that make up scientific knowledge are to be derived .
26 The laws and theories that make up scientific knowledge all make general assertions of that kind , and such statements are called universal statements .
27 The mass of estuaries and inlets that make up the coastline mean an oil spill would cover a lot bigger area .
28 Meanwhile , Gordon Cullen in a popular book , The concise townscape ( 1961 ) , showed the fun and drama to be had from the way towns and cities actually looked , popularizing the word ‘ townscape ’ as the art of giving visual coherence and organization to the jumble of buildings , streets and spaces that make up the urban environment
29 But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ?
30 Pay attention to plants and flowers and make sure that you have your lighting on dimmer switches so that you can dim it right down for dining as well as drawing a veil over any kitchen clutter .
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