Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [modal v] make [noun] " in BNC.

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1 6 Continue to monitor vital signs to detect changes in patient 's condition which would make surgery inadvisable .
2 It could , indeed , help to establish the kind of ethos which might make recourse to legal remedies unnecessary .
3 If you have been ‘ holding off ’ while making your mind up , the blade speed may have decayed to a very low level which will make things even worse .
4 However , the power of any ad which can make consumers feel warm towards utility companies is not to be denied .
5 But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor .
6 THE BMC , which at present enjoys the vague legal status of an unincorporated association , is proposing to become a limited company — a move which will make things easier for legal purposes in a number of ways .
7 The new constitution , which was based on that of the NCCL , emphasised the association 's character as a body which would make representations on the broad issues of civil liberties and would also take up individual cases of discrimination and ill-treatment .
8 The Young King 's opportunity was getting nearer , but if he were to show his hand at last , he needed an excuse , a justification for the war which would make sense in his father 's eyes and just might lead him to condone the attack on Richard .
9 Brand A is an innovative product concept which will make life very much easier for all slimmers .
10 Chinese officials expressed anger at his reform package and , according to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 5 , threatened retaliation which could make Hong Kong virtually ungovernable in the five remaining years of British rule .
11 At the current exchange rate , that is barely $1 — a price which should make Russia competitive with producers like Indonesia .
12 We have to identify the factors other than usurious interest rates and deficiency of aggregate demand which can make investment projects unattractive to enterprises .
13 While there 's no one vitamin or mineral which will make hair stronger , a balanced diet containing protein , calcium , zinc , iron , folic acid and the B vitamins is important for hair growth .
14 Self and Ernest Long , the secretary , devoted a good deal of thought to methods of budgetary control which would make decentralisation possible , but the headquarters engineers , still deeply distrustful of anything from Self , had little conception of the financial and management principles of decentralisation .
15 Just as astronomers sought for the pattern and the simple laws that must govern the movements of the stars and planets — making the world a real universe or cosmos , an ordered whole — so naturalists sought an arrangement which would make sense of all the different kinds of creatures that they found .
16 There is a need to look at more positive notions of the relationships between women and state policy which would make space for women and men to explore new options for living .
17 Resolved , That this House takes note of European Community Documents Nos. 8356/90 , relating to agricultural production methods , 7570/91 , and the Supplementary Explanatory Memorandum submitted by the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food on 13th November 1991 , relating to the development and future of the Common Agricultural Policy , and 8886/91 COR 1,8950/91 and 9136/91 , relating to amendments to the legal framework of the Common Agricultural Policy ; and supports the Government 's intention to seek reform of the Common Agricultural Policy which will make Community agriculture more market-orientated and efficient , will put more emphasis on environmental care , will reduce the cost of that Policy and will apply fairly throughout the Community .
18 Do not take a large supper which may make sleep difficult immediately afterwards .
19 He also held , dubiously , that were it not for the corruptions imposed by state and law , men would develop bonds of instinctive solidarity which would make government unnecessary .
20 This bargaining process is likely to take place in secluded agencies where the state and societal elites can work out deals , sheltered from any formalized and universally applicable legislation which might make bargains too difficult to achieve .
21 THE Government has to reform the ‘ draconian ’ legislation which can make newsagents innocent victims of the law which bans the sale of tobacco to children under 16 .
22 It has been put together by a group of younger supporters , and the first issue comes complete with a free disabled driver sticker which should make parking at away games much easier .
23 Imagine my surprise when I heard Douglas Hurd say that the only thing which would make Saddam Hssein toe the line on UN demands short of outright force was sanctions .
24 Although this represented no more than 4–5 per cent of their combined nuclear arsenals , it was nonetheless the first significant agreement of this kind between the two powers since the ABM treaty of 1972 , and was held by both sides to presage the conclusion of an agreement the following year which would make cuts of up to 50 per cent in strategic nuclear arms .
25 But they are clearly intended to form , in combination with formula funding under LMS , a system which will make schools subject to market forces in a direct and dramatic fashion .
26 Moreover , these correlations only achieved overall significance when the junctions were grouped in a way which may make sense , but was clearly post hoc .
27 In a town where the politics of two great interests clashed , it was essential to make the best possible use of any means of influence and to have a deputy functioning in the regality court in a way which would make friends for the duke 's interest rather than enemies .
28 She seems to me terribly unhappy in a way which can make people desperate , spiteful , even wicked . ’
29 A US$ 1700 million synthetic fuels plant is under construction which will make use of a new process by which natural gas is converted to methanol using a catalyst .
30 Once the topics had been set out in an order which would make sense to the recipients ( in this case of a postal questionnaire ) then the questions could be worked out .
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