Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This chapter describes , with some basic facts and figures , the range of institutions that make up the United Kingdom 's education system . |
| 4 | Marx and Engels may have predicted in The Communist Manifesto that capitalism would abolish the particularities of nations and make outdated narrow national consciousness . |
| 5 | I 'll have a look , but I 've had him doing actual words , like first words er , you know erm , Ben and large and in and out and just the , the easy words and Luke and his own name , so he is already got the idea that when you write a letter you ca n't just write any letter , you 've got to make letters say something either as erm , as an alphabet or in the form of words , so of course she says to , would you all like to write me a sentence , well he 's already passed that stage , he thinks himself well I ca n't write a sentence , what he knows as a sentence consists of words that make sense , so they 're all sitting there going a N , N , N , Q , R , S , N , T , T , and they 're saying a sentence like I went to the shops with my nanny , well Alex has already passed that stage , he knows that that is n't sensible , so he must of turned to her and he said , I ca n't write like that , my mummy will shout at me |
| 6 | What principles do children rely on as they analyse the structure of words and make use of their knowledge ? |
| 7 | The internal contents-density of high-bay warehouses is increasing , restricting the use of ladders and making the problem of manipulation of all portable equipment proportionally difficult . |
| 8 | The Rattlesnake Round-up in Sweetwater , Texas , takes place every March to rid rangeland of snakes and make it safer for livestock . |
| 9 | Cars must go back to the A683 beyond Barbon and that road followed south to the next village of Casterton , which has a school founded for the daughters of clergy and made famous by its association with the Brontë sisters . |
| 10 | Rebel Males by Graham McCann ( Hamish Hamilton , £10.99 ) — Montgomery Clift , Marlon Brando and James Dean , the subjects of this literate and readable study , pioneered a new kind of rebel as screen hero : they exuded primeval , ambiguous sexuality , and were not afraid of roles that made them look vulnerable , foolish or insecure . |
| 11 | If it 's something like that erm , all will go back and check that erm the researcher in as a matter of course , a couple of months and make sure |
| 12 | Graham Greene fairly remarked of the amorphous string of sequences that made up Rembrandt that ‘ no amount of money spent on expensive sets , on careful photography , will atone for the lack of a storyline , the continuity and drive of a well-constructed plot . ’ |
| 13 | Ends of branches that make a connection directly into manholes are called gullies , and these are all fitted with ‘ U ’ or ‘ S ’ traps to form a water seal . |
| 14 | That would save an awful lot of lives and make travelling by train a great deal more attractive and competitive . |
| 15 | This feeling is only likely to be reinforced by the realisation that the underlying technology used by most players — the set of chips that makes them tick — comes from a very limited number of sources . |
| 16 | When he did talk of an independent Scotland , he talked of bankers and making a new Switzerland . |
| 17 | It is this same difference of angles that makes the current stunt kite so stable and controllable , though Don used the Conyne planform . |
| 18 | Wan na see a dirty movie with Muppet look-alikes taking drugs , dying of Aids and making blue movies ? |
| 19 | She quickly began to sketch , and at the same time tried to imprint on her mind the combination of colours that made the whole scene so eerily effective . |
| 20 | And so the game , er … exercise , continued until Mr Grovey ran out of ideas AND made his big mistake at one and the same time . |
| 21 | ‘ It is a command of idioms that makes the difference . |
| 22 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
| 23 | To place a detailed analysis in context it is necessary to look at trends in key figures over a number of years and to make comparisons with other firms in the same industry . |
| 24 | Such a split should clarify the distribution of costs and make it easier for competing train services to run on the same track . |
| 25 | Rhodes ' analysis , too , suggests a rather less dramatic set of changes and makes fewer claims to the essential democracy of local government . |
| 26 | It 's the promise of guns that makes them co-operate with Midwinter . |
| 27 | I have mentioned particular examples of qualities that make for high survival value among memes . |
| 28 | The detail of these two Appendices is indeed so full of problems as to make them rather grim reading . |
| 29 | AS YOU yawn through this week 's promo-treadmill that is Wogan and wonder why Parkinson went to Australia , imagine , if you will , an interview programme with one guest , a shot of the interviewer 's back only , no stairs and the sort of questions that make grown men break down and cry . |
| 30 | Professor Khan had been a crucial cog in the great mesh of wheels that made up the whole for the creation of an Iraqi nuclear warhead . |