Example sentences of "make of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever we may make of this , it is interesting to observe that Professor Hartman of New York has established a link between those who suffer from this nocturnal disposition and a high level of creativity . |
| 2 | Whatever we may make of its influences , Leonard is clear that he ‘ never recovered ’ from its dénouements ; its ‘ illumination of human behaviour ’ ; its horror ( which he termed ‘ metaphorical ’ ) . |
| 3 | Whatever we may make of Leonard 's Judaism , he is a man seized by its traditions , its scriptures and their imagery . |
| 4 | Their rejection did not make of them ‘ social outcasts ’ ( save to the unseeing ) but raised their mark intensely : they were closest to God . |
| 5 | ‘ What did you make of Pollux ? |
| 6 | That they should make of one body a site where the variousness of all other bodies is in some way received . |
| 7 | How confident he is , or affects to be , about their disinterestedness , their alertness , the range of their sympathies , the use that they will make of the gentlest hint or nudge ! |
| 8 | What did Mr Wheeler make of that ? |
| 9 | I wonder what Johnson might make of this press release from the British architects RMJM ? |
| 10 | I never felt : ‘ Oh , so old Dignam 's playing Claudius ’ ( or whomever ) ; always : ‘ I wonder what Dignam will make of Claudius ? ’ |
| 11 | Yet what do we then make of a Gallup finding ( 21 — 6 May 1987 ) that , when asked to choose between inflation and unemployment as the greater threat to them and their families , 49 per cent chose inflation and only 43 per cent unemployment ? |
| 12 | Similarly , for all the huge majorities claiming to prefer more government spending , even if this involves paying more taxes , what does one make of the finding that voters , when asked which mattered more to themselves and their families , ‘ more public spending or tax cuts ? ’ , a majority preferred the tax cuts ( Marplan , March 1987 ) . |
| 13 | WHAT would a visiting foreigner make of this production of Macbeth by The Raving Beauties ? |
| 14 | To say , as Mr Hibbert did , that statisticians can not publicly dispute any misleading use politicians may make of official information is a weaselly argument . |
| 15 | See what you can make of me . ’ |
| 16 | See what you can make of me . |
| 17 | What do you make of it , Peregrine ? ’ |
| 18 | What Abraham receives instead is a command , ‘ Go from your country and your kindred and your father 's house to the land that I will show you ’ , and promises : ‘ And I will make of you a great nation , and I will bless you , and make your name great , so that you will be a blessing . |
| 19 | I will strike them with pestilence and disinherit them , and I will make of you ’ ( that is Moses ) ‘ a nation greater and mightier than they . ’ |
| 20 | What South American readers will make of his repeated references to the former enemy as ‘ Argies ’ or of the punchy foreword by Mrs Thatcher is hard to predict . |
| 21 | Given that this is so , what sense can we make of the way in which God , as opposed to John or Jane Smith , is personal ? |
| 22 | Pigs had piglets , Trent thought and called up , ‘ What do you make of the weather ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ So what do you make of this weather ? ’ |
| 24 | And God knows what sort of a mishmash they 'll make of it . |
| 25 | Now , what do you make of the pencil entries at the start of the new year ? ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps the child or the grandchild will invent a nostalgia , a personal explanation of current unhappiness , which will make of special significance the origin of the parent or grandparent . |
| 27 | ‘ Well — what did you make of it ? ’ |
| 28 | all that godliness , honour and love could make of a knight was combined in Don Rodrigo … |
| 29 | hero-narrator of Great Expectations , known as ‘ Pip ’ because , as he explains , ‘ my father 's family name being Pirrip , and my Christian name Philip , my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll hang myself , ’ I used to mutter over and over again , or for a change I would stare at my shotgun and wonder at the sort of mess I could make of myself . |