Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] make [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ‘ Money Bill ’ for this purpose is any Commons Bill which the Speaker certifies to be such , and the Parliament Acts make it abundantly clear that his certification is final and conclusive and beyond challenge in any other forum . |
| 2 | Stringent targets relating to carbon dioxide , sulphur dioxide and nox emissions make it difficult for coal to compete with other fuels , especially in power generation . |
| 3 | ‘ In fact , it was only after some debate that the organisers decided to carry on with the event , and some changes had to be made to the canoe course to make it easier for the rescue boats to assist competitors . |
| 4 | ( If the computer terminology makes you reel uncomfortable , remember that it is not suggested that we are computers . |
| 5 | John wound up the toy car to make it go . |
| 6 | In the questions task , both age groups showed a strong preference for expressing intentional explanations by means of the infinitive construction ( e.g. , John wound up the toy car to make it go ) . |
| 7 | Indeed , Roberts herself makes the point that , for example , Anderson 's reliance upon census data made it difficult for him to see the extent of exchanges across households . |
| 8 | SIR — Gordon Taylor 's pleadings for his pampered First Division pets make me very angry . |
| 9 | CONSOLES STREETFIGHTER 2 ( SNES , £64.99 ) : The celebrated Capcom coin-op makes it on to the SNES with more head-to-head action than Lennox Lewis could handle . |
| 10 | The straight forward design and short wheel base made it ideal for negotiating the sharp curves of the Welshpool line . |
| 11 | The reversal of the conventional speech/writing hierarchy which is implied in the term archi-écriture makes it impossible to see any use of language , written or spoken , as being determined by presence , intention or representation . |
| 12 | The use of the term legatarius makes it much harder to rely on the explanation that legare has a broad sense ; there was after all an accepted term , fideicommissarius , for the beneficiary of a trust . |
| 13 | Since 1892 , we at Bob Martin have been developing , improving , refining and perfecting our Flea Treatments , Wormers and Condition Tablets to make them the best you can get your paws on . |
| 14 | She thinks that being a crime writer makes me a detective as well . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Although the team had been instructed by the Scottish team doctor to avoid taking any medicinal substances which might be banned by the laws of the game , Johnson frequently took either smelling salts or the mild psycho-motor drug Reactivin at club level to make him more alert when he went out to play . |
| 17 | The walk is linear so you 'll need a friendly car driver to make it that little bit easier . |
| 18 | The close connection between politics and revenue patronage made it difficult for superiors to discipline officers who stepped out of line , and even when an officer was actually dismissed he could , and did , fight to secure his reinstatement by pulling political strings . |
| 19 | The magico-religious content of many of the seal images makes it likely that their owners treated them as amulets as well . |
| 20 | Car headlights made it difficult to see , in the way that an usherette 's torch can temporarily blind . |
| 21 | The brandy scrolls will keep in an airtight container for up to two weeks , but should n't be filled more than 30min before serving as the gooseberry fool makes them go soft . |
| 22 | This action plan makes it evident that many of the organisational improvements recommended are in fact features synonymous with an ‘ openly run ’ school with an ‘ open ’ form of decision-making . |
| 23 | Here , on demanding mountain roads , the yawning gaps between gear ratios made it difficult to keep the engine spinning above the ideal 4000rpm . |
| 24 | For example , if we have strings of four 6-bit characters : Show how the above translate instruction could process this result string to make it a digit-by.digit sum to a non-binary base . |
| 25 | The warm spring climate makes it possible to produce early market garden crops before those in other parts of Britain . |
| 26 | John Steele brought Midlands back to life with a splendid 36th-minute drop goal and just before half-time Liley made it 9–10 . |
| 27 | The above research on car parking makes it appear that memory in such situations is remarkably similar to memory in more traditional laboratory paradigms . |
| 28 | Our experience of MCI Communications Corp 's MCI Mail service makes us feel that it has a quite impressively user friendly interface , whereas we find it difficult to believe that British Telecommunications Plc 's Dialcom — or good ol' Telecom Gold — is really quite as user-hostile as it appears , so having hit a snag in MCI and keyed ‘ help ’ at the prompt , and got a couple of screens of useful information ending with two phone numbers and a further option to key at the prompt , we wondered what Gold came up with if you keyed ‘ help ’ — here is the answer — Top-level directory not found or inaccessible . |
| 29 | Engines and transmissions are usually made by car firms themselves , but with larger production runs than for cars , so the small scale of overseas car output makes it still sensible to import most of these things from Japan . |
| 30 | Administration sources made it clear yesterday that Mr Clinton was ready to go to Moscow for the 3-4 April meeting , whose present venue is Vancouver . |