Example sentences of "to make [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point we want to make for immediate purposes has to do with the way in which methodological problems arise from particular conceptions of the " order of things " . |
| 2 | The reason they recruit , or try to recruit , black policemen like you is that it 's supposed to make for better relationships between the black community and the police . |
| 3 | I have a bid to make for additional assistance , and I suggest that there are three means by which we could help people without work more than has been possible in the past . |
| 4 | What , then , were seen as the essential elements of the British party model , and how do these elements add up so as to make for responsible party government and the popular control of public policy ? |
| 5 | More trouble appeared in the shape of an ill-judged television film , which Charles and Diana agreed to make for Independent Television News in 1985 : seemingly innocuous , with a bland , not to say sycophantic , interviewer in the shape of Sir Alastair Burnet . |
| 6 | Against this wage trend , the rising prices of the latter part of the century were bound to make for severe reductions in living standards . |
| 7 | Even when only historic costs are being recognized there are still subjective judgements which have to be made to produce balance sheets and income statements : how much depreciation to charge ; how to calculate the closing stock figure ; what provision to make for doubtful debts , etc . |
| 8 | So he ordered to be brought to him the finest silk cloth and brilliant threads , and made for pleasure what he had once needed to make for harsh necessity . |
| 9 | Such a situation was likely to make for untold complications . |
| 10 | However , there are two points to make about recent developments . |
| 11 | And er we used to make about six trips with a two wheeled trolley from Station to his house , two boys 'd do this job because it was very heavy work you know . |
| 12 | Well , I mean the point to make about this budget is I 've just told you about two million pounds worth of minuses , let me tell you about two million pounds of pluses that are going in . |
| 13 | The last point I would wish to make about this sonnet is one of rhythm and structure . |
| 14 | If anyone should be angry it is I. That was a most insulting assumption to make about any gentleman . ’ |
| 15 | I believe that each of us has what I term a spirit ( but which I am quite happy for others to call the soul , the higher self , the inner self — or any of dozens of different names ) and that it is this spirit which has a journey to make through several lifetimes . |
| 16 | This may seem like a fairly trivial point to make as all behaviours have a beginning and end — even sitting still doing nothing . |
| 17 | Erm , in the Customer Services area once we 've seen what changes Customer Service wish to make during this year that they myself and Roger and gon na find that out , hopefully , tomorrow , erm , then we 'll be more specific about the areas that we have to address on th , the first and second floor . |
| 18 | What an admission to make after 12 years of Conservative government that our economy is uniquely incapable of being signed up for participation in a single currency . |
| 19 | But what happens now will depend not on a strategy cooked up in Westminster , but on what Irish politicians from north and south of the border choose to make of each other . |
| 20 | Then what are we to make of current events at Whitby and Scarborough ? |
| 21 | Yet if the density of her father 's silence spoke true , then Madcap Agnew had used this place to make of that mystery something vile indeed . |
| 22 | Kuhn 's answer is that the thinking of a scientific community takes place within a ‘ paradigm ’ which governs what scientists are to make of recalcitrant experience . |
| 23 | I did not know what to make of these people until , years later , I read the novels of François Mauriac . |
| 24 | What is one to make of Party-military relations in this period , and what do they imply for the present ? |
| 25 | I do n't know what to make of this story . |
| 26 | What is one to make of this nonsense ? |
| 27 | If a child did not know what to make of this question Piaget would prompt him : ‘ When you walk , you walk with feet ; well then , when you think , what do you think with ? ’ |
| 28 | What are we to make of this movement ? |
| 29 | Many sociologists feel that their body of knowledge has a central contribution to make towards such reconstruction . |
| 30 | Political decisions emerge from the interaction of groups who have conflicting objectives as well as mutually advantageous bargains to make with each other . |