Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | To rectify this and to make sure the Concert Halls can promote themselves as a fully-fledged venue , the board has decided to embark on the final refurbishment step . |
| 2 | But in her case the technique employed is a great deal less attractive — it is to blame everyone but herself when things are going wrong and to make scapegoats out of able colleagues . |
| 3 | It is very easy to read him wrong and to make mistakes , and there are , of course , occasions when he does offer a brutal simplicity , which it would be ridiculous to try and develop . |
| 4 | By holding a long contract for delivery at T 1 and a short contract for delivery at T 2 , it would be possible to take delivery at T 1 for P f 1 and keep the asset for making delivery at T 2 for P f 2 and to make a sure profit . |
| 5 | Without access to property , the freedom of the parties to associate with one another and to make agreements would be of little practical significance in this context . |
| 6 | As has been pointed out " the purpose of many opposition amendments is not to make the Bill more generally acceptable but to make the Government less generally acceptable . " |
| 7 | While for analytical ( and polemical ) purposes these ideal types serve a useful purpose , it is arguable that states and processes are so conceptually and practically interdependent as to make naive any description or explanation of education exclusively in terms of one rather than the other . |
| 8 | The result has been that in some cases the insurance premiums which manufacturers have to pay to protect themselves are so high as to make it no longer profitable for them to remain in business . |
| 9 | For Gauntlett 's product is that most impeccably British of all motor-cars ( not automobiles ) , the Aston Martin : a car so devastatingly English as to make Rolls-Bentleys seem like Hondas . |
| 10 | Even if we make the comparison with the earlier part of the twentieth century when people were beginning to live longer , the economic conditions of family life were so different as to make a decision to take an old person into one 's home , if they could not maintain themselves , a very different decision from its equivalent today . |
| 11 | Carve out a larger , shallower , window at the front for the driver , taking care not to weaken the cake too much or to make the edges too thin . |
| 12 | It can not be the cheap medals and worthless trophies they hope to accumulate and the chances of making big money are so tiny as to make it untenable as a career . |
| 13 | To suggest that such a blank-filling exercise constitutes communicative behaviour is to generalize the concept so much as to make it almost meaningless . |
| 14 | The nationality requirement , along with the domicile and residence requirements , was so restrictive as to make ineligible for consideration as ‘ qualified companies ’ many publicly quoted companies or banks on the International Stock Exchange in London . |
| 15 | On 17 July 1559 , the answer was a scolding letter from her husband the king of France to lord James , marvelling that he , who ‘ has the honour to be so near the Queen 's Grace , my wife … should be so forgetful as to make yourself the head … of the tumults and seditions ’ ; only six days later did the queen get round to sending a similarly plaintive message herself . |
| 16 | Child benefit is the only benefit which is in fact available to women , even then the government tried a few years ago to change that and to make it paid to the man . |
| 17 | Well you do know th th that you 're saying that they want to make a particular point strongly and er that that might involve erm an elephant in of bad taste in order to make it striking and to make people look at it and think about it . |
| 18 | Now life 's full of challenges , the business person on this world , is challenge to work hard and to make wealth . |
| 19 | Now my feeling is that in doing an evaluation one ought to try and develop each of these different viewpoints , then leave it to the people concerned that have to make the decisions to pick up each of these and to make the decisions , but at least the evaluation itself is not sort of ruling out of court any of the viewpoints that could be important in that situation , so any person who 's involved , even if they 're in a minority of one , at least feels that his views are there in the evaluation somewhere and they 're made legitimate by it . |
| 20 | If that sounds confusing , it can be illustrated simply ; the singular number of the English noun is unmarked with respect to the plural , since the singular form is basic and to make the plural you have to add a suffix . |
| 21 | Cash limits are expected to encourage cost-cutting and to make managers think about the quality and the quantity of the service they provide . |
| 22 | The class must consist of persons whose rights are not so dissimilar as to make it impossible for them to consult together with a view to their common interest ( Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dunn [ 1892 ] 2 QB 573 ) . |
| 23 | That is not to say it is the recommended method , once you have started the latch tool method of working ribs it becomes so fast as to make you wonder why you did n't try it before . |
| 24 | A complete range of enquiry services is available to personal callers — the variety is so large as to make description impossible . |
| 25 | The use of prose for mockery in Much Ado about Nothing is so widespread as to make illustration superfluous . |
| 26 | He knew everyone worth knowing and liked nothing better than to make connections . |
| 27 | All the political parties have accepted the fact that social security has got to change we 're spending over a third of public spending on social security and each political party is reviewing it to find way of making it more effective and to make saving . |
| 28 | Now that was true until the late sixties early seventies and of course er you find there the election to the o to the White House of one Richard Milhous Nixon , conservative Republican er a man who was not above hiring gangsters and burglars to do his work for him , and this produced a reaction and if you read the , the presidential literature of the nineteen seventies you will find the opposite , you will find er political scientists , all American , er demanding reforms of the American system , not to make the president more powerful but to make the president less powerful . |
| 29 | ‘ His memory seemed to me to be so defective and selective as to make his evidence worthless . ’ |
| 30 | Now , it may or not me noticeable if it 's a minor alteration in the surface geometry then it may be so slight as to make no difference in the way it performs so if , for example , it 's an enzyme it may not affect it at all . |