Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a standard opening — the kind of play that made no real difference to the final outcome — yet somehow the boy made it seem a challenge . |
| 2 | The manager 's task was to remain up to date with the changes , to encourage a confident understanding of the purpose and methods of assessment and to make sense of the ambiguity which surrounded questions of parental and governors ' access to the assessments . |
| 3 | The court can give directions relating to medical or psychiatric examination or any other kind of assessment when making an interim order or at any time while an order is in force ( s38(6) ) . |
| 4 | Zitney fixed her with the kind of look that made her feel electric all over . |
| 5 | Or , rather , a lion — there was something about those gold-brown eyes and swept-back mane of hair that made her think of the King of Beasts , dressed up in the trappings of civilisation . |
| 6 | ‘ I wish I knew , ’ Peter answered with a lack of tact that made Sarella cringe . |
| 7 | that it may entail a level of expertise that makes lay scrutiny difficult ; |
| 8 | The syndrome of imperfections that make up " maternal depletion " coupled usually with lower educational level and larger family size evidently account for the lower survival chances of infants and young children whose mothers were beyond age 39 at the birth . |
| 9 | They scatter during the day to feed , but reassemble every night in a vast , noisy crowd , blanketing whole sections of woodland and making the trees almost invisible under their cloak of bodies . |
| 10 | They are likely to run from the sort of fight that makes good corporate governance stick . |
| 11 | The Art Gallery had a nice exhibition about slices of NZ history done on a ‘ time-travel ’ theme ; a teenage girl travels back to visit Abel Tasman 's ship , Joseph Banks ’ study etc and sends aerograms ‘ home ’ , full of description but made realistic with 20th century NZ teenage jargon . |
| 12 | Briefly summarised , these are first , that photosynthesis may be ‘ switched ’ on and off reversibly : and second , that its behaviour is highly modular in that the complex series of reactions that make up photosynthesis can be reviewed as going on inside a number of ‘ boxes ’ , each fairly distinct and separable from each other — the light-harvesting mechanisms , the conversion of the light energy to ATP , the use of ATP to make carbohydrates and so on . |
| 13 | Other procedures Each of the Houses has charge of its own privileges and has a Committee of Privileges to consider alleged breaches of privilege and make recommendations . |
| 14 | ‘ Any other scheme could lead to great difficulties of inequality and make it harder to recruit from those groups we need to reach . ’ |
| 15 | In 1800 the artist and sculptor George Garrard carefully measured contemporary cattle for the Board of Agriculture and made engravings to scale . |
| 16 | The humbucker carries a clean sound well , although there 's a hint of midrange that made me go for the coil-tap to keep things sounding sweet . |
| 17 | The woman was slim , dark , and well made , with an air of reserve that made one take her seriously . |
| 18 | It also introduces the concept of parental responsibility , amends the law of guardianship and makes provision for welfare reports in proceedings under the Act . |
| 19 | ‘ She never stopped chattering through the entire performance and of course that made everybody look at her . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I came down from Manchester two days ago , to meet my fellow archdeacons , and the Bishop told me of your husband 's application and of course that made me wish to meet him , and to meet you . |
| 21 | It was n't new of course but made of a very good material . |
| 22 | APPEAL ( No. 6 of 1991 ) with leave of the Court of Appeal of Bermuda by the plaintiff , Horace Brenton Kelly , from the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Bermuda ( Blair-Kerr P. , Roberts and Henry JJ.A. ) given on 30 November 1989 allowing an appeal by the defendants , Margot Cooper and Helen Cooper ( trading as Cooper Associates , a firm ) from the judgment of Hull J. delivered on 14 November 1988 in the Supreme Court of Bermuda ( Civil Jurisdiction ) , whereby he awarded the plaintiff $200,000 damages for breach of contract and made a declaration that the defendants were not entitled to commission on the sale of the plaintiff 's property , and the defendants ' counterclaim for commission was dismissed . |
| 23 | " And how often did you get good roast beef like this down at Sir Gregory 's , Miss Jennifer ? " he asked , helping himself to a generous dollop of honey and making patterns with it as it streamed down onto the slab of red meat on his plate . |
| 24 | And it is doubtless the strategic codification of these points of resistance that makes a revolution possible , somewhat similar to the way in which the state relies on the institutional integration of power relationships . |
| 25 | The whole variety of experience that makes up our worship life . |
| 26 | This chapter describes , with some basic facts and figures , the range of institutions that make up the United Kingdom 's education system . |
| 27 | A share is not a sum of money … but is an interest measured by a sum of money and made up of various rights contained in the contract , including the right to a sum of money of a more or less amount . ’ |
| 28 | Both highly desirable , the one on the left especially ; both looked as if they would n't get on their backs for anything less than Edouard de Chavigny himself ; both had the kind of accent that made his toes curl , and made him wish he 'd opted for the more costly tailor . |
| 29 | For that reason , however inadequate some people may regard it , I was a firmly convinced supporter of Biafra and made various futile efforts during the war to persuade Harold Wilson to a like view . |
| 30 | But the important quality about Dick Crossman , which made him unique among Members of Parliament and made his testament to the understanding of British Government unique , is that he was the pure , 100 per cent archetypal don , a don through and through , albeit a don whose special subject was politics in practice . |