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

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1 On face , arms , body , brow , wherever dark hair needs paling Jolen makes it barely visible .
2 On the one hand , I want fatherhood to make me a better person because I believe that , once I have the responsibility of looking after a child , giving up smoking and drinking and spending money on the motorbike will be a doddle .
3 Simply to smell Coca-Cola made her , she said , violently sick .
4 You had to frighten kids to make them behave , but there was no need to scare them too much .
5 If you find deep gravel paths in your local park , write to your local parks department and ask that the paths instead be covered with firmly rolled gravel to make them suitable for use by wheelchair users .
6 A group of families living beside one of the region 's busiest commuter routes are facing a five-mile detour to get home , because they 've been marooned by roadworks.They say it 's making their lives a misery , and want engineers to make them a special short cut to improve things .
7 Poisoning of waterways is hideous enough ; but the ability of many organisms to concentrate toxins makes it even more so .
8 At the office during the week he found circumstances made it necessary for him to ring most of his influential friends and acquaintances — Sims , the paper 's tame lawyer ; Sir William Paice ; Brent-Williamson , the Literary Editor ; Huysmanns at the French Embassy .
9 After they had eaten , her mother let Caro make them both a cup of tea .
10 The hormone progestogen taken regularly every day at the same time causes changes making it difficult for sperm to enter the womb or for the womb to accept a fertilised egg .
11 But shortage of teachers and timetabling problems make it very difficult for schools to work any great breadth into the system .
12 Whatever the structure , an organisation needs people to make it work and hence the need to take into account the roles of individuals , their beliefs , values , motivations and how they interact with each other and with groups .
13 At night , even though the baby has woken , the quiet , dark , unstimulating environment makes him more likely to go back to sleep .
14 As a fire needs air to make it burn , so a poem needs to be fuelled by each one of these .
15 Does Badgers Bill make them over-protected ?
16 I do n't need men to make me feel secure , to be a mother , to frame my morals , to pay my bills , to organize my life , to give me self-esteem .
17 A sharp distinction between soma and germ line makes it possible to prevent acquired characters from being transmitted .
18 The fixation shift results make it clear that orienting behaviour can be evoked by stimuli that can not have been processed by any contralateral cortical structures .
19 Frequently , purveyors of delicate doodlings are n't much cop live , tiresome mumble 'n' fumble trappings making you wish you 'd stuck to the vinyl .
20 Look again later — has evaporation made them smaller or has more rain made them bigger ?
21 True — but only recently has technology made it possible to destroy life faster than it can be replaced .
22 The Payment of Wages Act allows employers to make it a condition of employment that new employees should be paid through a bank , but prohibits them from doing this with existing employees ( though of course individual existing employees can agree voluntarily to accept bank-account payment ) .
23 Human Designed Systems Inc this week will try to simplify X-terminals to make them as easy as serial terminal with a new version of its ViewStation FX server software dubbed HDSware 2.0 .
24 The financial consequences to the parties of ordering or refusing rectification make it difficult to weigh the ‘ equities . ’
25 And benefit changes make it easier for more families — including single parents — to combine work and family responsibilities .
26 This is no ordinary Museum — Not another Military Museum — Not a glass show case — it is a series of reconstructed scenes using movement , sound , lighting , smells , even smoke generators to make you feel you are actually there taking part .
27 ‘ I challenge Benn to make it happen , to give the British public what they want .
28 Schussler attempted , with his salts , to simplify homoeopathy to make it easier to practise , but his concept of deficiency disease has not been validated and his ideas are not in line with classical homoeopathic principles .
29 As I hinted in the first paper , traditional design understanding has tried , in effect , to simplify design to make it conform to an already existent model of what a ( scientific , technological , artistic ) activity should look like .
30 The visitors were Arsenal and , while it still seems unfair to single out teams in this way , the intensity of attiude recorded by the referee 's hidden microphone made it easier to understand what happened last Saturday .
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