'making the association' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of forming a connection between two ideas or concepts. For example: "By making the association between these two events, I was able to better understand the context of the situation."
This was not the case everywhere, which is why I think Holmes is naturally resistant to making the association between liberalism and social reform in any way definitional.
If I didn't, the first time someone quipped, "Luke, i am your father" would have been just as tiresome as the billionth; as it stands, I don't mind people making the association, and do nothing to dissuade them from their belief that they've coined a Wildean zinger of bon mottery.
In the presence of two orders higher concentration of ammonium ion, this effect strongly increases, making the association obvious.
The task TAs are modified for making the association to a corresponding controller resulting in the TA shown in Fig. 10 for our running example.
Inflammation increases with age, and the number of people reaching age 90 years and older is growing, making the association between inflammation and dementia increasingly relevant.
The important thing is to keep people making the association.
No multivariate analysis was performed, making the associations found subject to possible unknown confounders.
Excluding all individuals living outside the state of Minnesota or X-ray only images greatly reduced the number of analysable cases making the associations essentially null.
The limitations of this study are that no multivariate analysis was performed on the example variables, making the associations found subject to possible unknown confounders.
Female mass was not associated with gestation, which makes the association for males all the more curious, since males provide only a relatively small contribution to reproduction (sperm).
"I cannot verify that the child made the association".
