Example sentences of "and [noun] [conj] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't repeat yourself ’ is an injunction placed upon us when we assemble our first stories and essays and make our first public utterances . |
| 2 | The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demand for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity : it affords protection to all beings , offering shade even to the axeman who destroys it . |
| 3 | For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style . |
| 4 | It is such considerations of equity and judgement that make the course-work component in examinations suspect , however much its assessment may be regulated by published sets of criteria . |
| 5 | The thing with protest songs is that pop 's always been about the immediate , spontaneous and puerile , it has n't the patience to slog through sub-committees and lobbying and making orderly demands through the proper channels . |
| 6 | We had to find a way of reducing those change-over times by between 75 and 90% and to make the change stick . |
| 7 | Our main purpose in life is to make people aware of the problem , to make them think of their own vulnerability and responsibility and make them act in a safe and sensible way . |
| 8 | She rubbed bread and herbs and made stuffing . |
| 9 | But now in every case justices have to give findings and reasons when making the order they do . |
| 10 | Did you not yourself say that our love must be holy ? ’ or when she pointed out that his ‘ lovely poems ’ would have been less lovely if she had not pro vided ‘ the unrest and storm that made them possible ’ : ‘ Beloved I will pray with my whole strength that suffering and temptation may be taken from you as they have been taken from me and that we may gain spiritual union stronger than earthly union could ever be . ’ |
| 11 | He loved scandal and intrigue and made his contribution in low , conspiratorial tones . |
| 12 | Looking for the most cost-effective approach , ERC 's highly qualified and experienced employees will make a thorough inspection of a customer 's used equipment , wellheads and valves and make repairs according to industry standards . |
| 13 | I think it is this link between knowledge and innocence that makes both books thoroughly enjoyable to read . |
| 14 | In modern times the Spanish aristocracy has given little cultural leadership : in the late eighteenth century the few esprit forts who corresponded with Voltaire or Rousseau were swamped by the traditional formality and tedium that made Madrid society a nightmare for intelligent ambassadors . |
| 15 | Talbot thanked him , rose , washed the sleep from his face and eyes and made his way to the admiral 's quarters . |
| 16 | In the middle of the final these scum who had bought the tickets start scrapping with our boys and fighting and making a nuisance . |
| 17 | I provided the calm , the cleanliness , the order and nourish-ment that made it possible for him to work . |
| 18 | ‘ She has no airs and graces and makes us all so proud . ’ |
| 19 | Maybe , it is argued , the Creator does not control the day-to-day succession of evolutionary events ; maybe he did not frame the tiger and the lamb , maybe he did not make a tree , but he did set up the original machinery of replication and replicator power , the original machinery of DNA and protein that made cumulative selection , and hence all of evolution , possible . |
| 20 | Among the more sophisticated proposals are those put forward by Barnes and Barr that make provision for tied bursaries to protect shortage subjects and for positive discrimination by means of ‘ bonuses ’ on top of the standard bursary for particularly disadvantaged students . |
| 21 | He rushed in , then , with many words , many more words about awfulness and pills , and if onlys and sadness ; words that were curses and words that made the issue opaque and words that sounded trivial because he was so angry . |
| 22 | Jokes and laughter can be a wonderful way of bringing people together but Gowie 's so-called jokes are the sort that cause only anger and unhappiness and make everyone despise him . |
| 23 | You wo n't sink into this sort of flooring but it has a neat appearance and will pull together a disparate collection of furniture and styles and make a roomful of old things look firmly set in the twentieth century . |
| 24 | He begins to doubt himself , lowering his self-confidence and self-esteem and making the next approach to a girl more difficult . |
| 25 | This is country style with a grace and lightness that makes a welcome change from the usual heavy stripped pine . |
| 26 | If elected I would work within the council to eliminate the waste and extravagance that makes the current level of local taxation , in whatever form , an unacceptable burden on local residents . |
| 27 | Hailed as a kind of dominant world religion , science is a powerful tool some men have used to elevate themselves above other men , women , children , and the plants and animals that make up the world we live in . |
| 28 | Eventually , the young officer weighed up the pros and contras and made the correct decision , for him and for yours truly , by delivering us to our front door . |
| 29 | but I can not emphasize too strongly that you should only choose furniture and furnishings that make you feel comfortable . |
| 30 | She explains their shifts and duties and makes sure they understand what the home stands for and how the residents should be treated . |