Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] make [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Edwards also detects caution in employers who are recruiting : ‘ They hire people for a specific period , maybe one or two years , so that at the end of that time they can decide whether or not to renew their contract or make them redundant .
2 None of the new features take away control from the user or make it harder or more complex to use , a strategy which some other vendors would do well to emulate .
3 You work lightly so as not to draw in the knitting or make it lumpy and you could also undo lightly worked stitches more easily .
4 You can freeze these buns or make them the day before and keep in an airtight container .
5 You also need to be inventive and prepared to look to untried and untested ways to earn money or to make it work for you .
6 Causton plans to alter the ends of the polymers to make them stick better to specific surfaces or make them attractive to only a particular protein .
7 I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath .
8 He had done so four years before , and nothing had happened in the meantime either to abate his ambition or to make him less qualified — in the latter case very much the reverse .
9 However , this only happens if your debtor wants to defend the action or makes you an offer which you can and do refuse .
10 But Christianity is the only religion that makes it clear that only one god exists .
11 Rosen eked out a conversation with her and without Leon Kennedy , who was sewn into an isolation that made him more powerfully present .
12 She flashed me a glance that made it clear there was some backbone in there , it was just the training that made her act like a dipstick .
13 He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle .
14 ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’
15 Steven continues : ‘ There 's a complete balancing out of all the different musical influences which enables us to write songs that make us sound like no-one else .
16 Their new LP ( their best since their first , Psychocandy ) is good for different reasons : because it has the sort of rumbling guitars and invigorating , climbing , bittersweet songs that make you jump out of bed and open up the curtains in the morning .
17 They nearly all contain the extraordinary adrenalin tug that marks pop off from everything apart from the madder bits of techno — songs that make you feel like you are on speed are harder to write than ones that make you cry — FACT .
18 but it cracked , cracked me up is these fucking songs that make you take and he keeps hiding behind the oil can
19 It was an association that made him an appropriate keeper at Loseley of Montague 's imprisoned son-in-law Henry Wriothesley , second Earl of Southampton [ q.v. ] in 1570 .
20 The muddled thinking that makes us claim at least some vague idea of what God is leads us disastrously to thinking that if we say God can not be one kind of thing we must be saying he is the other .
21 He despises the human race and the combinations that make it tick ; the human race in its present state , he 'd qualify — he 'd like to send us all back to nursery school — so he has to behave as unlike his fellow beings as he can . ’
22 His anger reached out with a deadly force that made her flinch back from him .
23 Just remember that the invisible spiritual force that makes them work is evil and harmful , so leave them all well alone .
24 Well there must be another force that makes them see them things must n't there ?
25 It is because no institution or individual is proof against the third essential ingredient that makes us what we are — the Zeitgeist , the spirit of the times .
26 Brittain is always up with the lark and it was a nice piece of work that Needle Gun did under Roberts on the Side Hill woodchip gallops early on Tuesday that makes me select him for the Laburnum Stakes .
27 I provided the calm , the cleanliness , the order and nourish-ment that made it possible for him to work .
28 She withdrew , and Claudia opened the door , steeling herself to greet Roman without a trace of the emotion that made her want to run out of the flat , away from the two people she loved most and who were causing her so much pain that she wanted to die .
29 But there was something about them , maybe their mohair suits , maybe the hard men they imported from Glasgow or maybe their bonding as brothers that made them seem glamorous .
30 That was the obsession that made me write this . ’
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