Example sentences of "the [noun pl] make [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He filled out all the forms making her older than she was and as uninteresting as possible . |
| 2 | The crowds made it painfully obvious who was the new star of the show the Princess of Wales . |
| 3 | I do n't know how they 've done it but the typography on the signs makes me want to pronounce the word Edin-burg , and I live in the place , for God 's sake . |
| 4 | The courts make their calculations on the basis of the current provisions and do not speculate on future changes . |
| 5 | The courts made it very clear that they equated the interests of the state with the interests of the government then in power . |
| 6 | The following afternoon — i.e. the day the Germans made their most menacing gains — he telephoned that the attack had ‘ slowed down and it looked as though we would be able to hold out and even make a counter-attack ’ . |
| 7 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 8 | ‘ The scripts make me sound very smart and I like that , ’ he said . |
| 9 | This addition to the maps made them more useful , especially for agricultural purposes , but it entailed resurveying ground already covered and slowed the progress of subsequent work . |
| 10 | The many tracks through the woods make it easy to get lost — but that 's never bothered me . |
| 11 | But although ‘ In Place of Strife ’ was in accord with majority public opinion , it was certainly not in accord with Labour Party and union opinion , and although that in itself has not always blocked the parliamentary leadership , this time it became obvious that sufficient Labour MPs would reject the proposals to make it impossible to establish them as law . |
| 12 | This was not well received , and in fact Blackett 's sympathy with the Russians made it impossible for him to get a visa to visit the US during the McCarthy years . |
| 13 | The Times made its strongest attack , one of the strongest ever made by that paper on a government department , in an editorial in February 1971 : |
| 14 | My letter to The Times makes my own position clear . |
| 15 | The Crues make their UEFA Cup debut against Swiss side Servette Geneva at Seaview on Tuesday with no fewer than five of their regulars classed as ‘ foreigners ’ . |
| 16 | The evening air had its accustomed November nip , but the groups making their way from Celtic Crescent were impervious to it . |
| 17 | Only when it became clear that the rules made it impossible for them to shake the landowners ' grip on the zemstvos did interest decline so that the last pre-war zemstvo elections were marked by peasant apathy . |
| 18 | The rules make it clear that an individual who can show that his or her claim is distinguishable from the rest of the group must have it heard and he or she will be treated individually . |
| 19 | It has been roundly criticised because of the risk of cervical spinal cord injury , and there has been a plea for changes in the rules to make it safer ( Burry & Calcinai , 1988 ) . |
| 20 | It then , in October , expressed its concern that a high proportion of courses in subjects other than business studies were being turned down , and it suggested that one of the reasons making it difficult for such courses to be approved might be that ‘ the Council 's present structure of honours and ordinary degrees was not so appropriate for courses in those fields ’ as in science and technology . |
| 21 | The smell of bread and baigels freshly from the ovens made me hungry . |
| 22 | Soon afterwards we were able to use real rifles , for the authorities made us members of the ‘ Universal Training ’ organization , our criminal past being deliberately overlooked . |
| 23 | ‘ But the authorities make it quite clear … that before the constable is in a position to choose between a specimen of blood or a specimen of urine on the defendant 's claim that one or other specimens should be substituted for the specimen of breath , the defendant must be made aware not merely that he can have the breath specimen substituted by some other specimen in general terms , but that the alternative specimen can be one either of blood or of urine , although in the last resort , subject to the proviso to subsection ( 4 ) as to medical practitioners , the choice is that of the police officer . |
| 24 | Reports from Zimbabwe suggest that poachers are killing black rhinos even though they have been dehorned by the authorities to make them unattractive to hunters . |
| 25 | Finance ministers and officials taking part in the meetings made it clear that the whole package of financial aid was conditional on the former Soviet republics pressing ahead to establish market economies and taking prescribed measures for stabilization . |
| 26 | The letter to the Hebrews makes it clear that the Old Testament sacrifice was at best an incomplete answer to the problem of sin . |
| 27 | And she gave me an indulgent look and she said , ‘ I 'm really sorry , the pictures made me feel tender feelings for you , but they just really did not arouse me . ’ |
| 28 | You 've lo lost all the opportunities to make yourself a bit more money which is what we 're talking about here . |
| 29 | So it looks awfully fresh the wretches made me almost squashed it . |
| 30 | write to him as well disgusting , as if you do n't , you do n't need that sort of aggravation from a teacher stirring up trouble like that making the kids making him a laughing stock , he does not need that , its just not on is it ? , and as he says I 'm sure she does it on purpose . |