Example sentences of "[adv] to make the " in BNC.

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1 I do not accept either the Right-wing proposition that we need only to make the country better off as a whole without making any special effort in the inner cities . ’
2 By the time of Jesus , those Jews who lived a good distance from Jerusalem were required only to make the pilgrimage at Passover .
3 We heard this sort of thing before , when Pontypool ruled the roost in the Seventies and Eighties , and the fact that there was more than an element of truth in it , that the complaints of others could be justified , served only to make the accused — Neath , just like Pontypool before them — become more introverted and less receptive .
4 The big creatures stand quite high from the background , but this depth of cutting is only to make the contours clear ; the surface is a flat plane , details lightly modelled or engraved on it .
5 Nor had Ivor ; but the circumstances of his death gave him a posthumous popularity , if only to make the crime of which Georgina was accused seem fouler .
6 She had only to make the decision .
7 It is important not only to make the training interesting , stimulating and exciting , but also for the Territorial Army to provide the best possible club in any area .
8 I wish only to make the point that I think it wrong that Opposition Members should seek to criticise my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford , who has fairly raised a matter that carries with it considerable concern in all strata of society .
9 Great thanks are due to the Dyfed Wildlife Trust for organising the trip and being such good hosts , and especially to Jane Asher for taking the time not only to make the visit but also to meet the very short deadline required for the article .
10 In fact , however , their very rarity served only to make the procedure arbitrary in the extreme and , indeed , may have added to the reluctance of owners to offer land for development at all .
11 If they do recommend an envoy , and if President Clinton were to appoint someone like former President Jimmy Carter , the effect would be only to make the problem worse .
12 Lastly to make the picture more realistic , some crew are placed on board , and on the floating pontoons .
13 What is the point of bathing together in the beaches when in fact we can not sit together to make the laws of our country ?
14 Which came first is anybody 's guess , but the two are now working together to make the patient even more ill .
15 This is great to knit as you go , but you can also sew rouleaux together to make the scalloped lace if you do n't want to use your machine — it takes longer , but you can do it anywhere .
16 Anything that would grab the eye was jammed together to make the page frantically busy .
17 Government policy and commercial development thus came together to make the Tokugawa period an era of rapid urbanization ; estimates suggest that in the early 1800s around 15 per cent of the population could be considered as dwelling in urban areas .
18 They go together the chlorine and sodium go together to make the sodium chloride and the H and the O H go together and make the water .
19 Shake together to make the dressing .
20 A special casting factory was built at Wolff Road in the harbour estate to make the concrete box units which link together to make the carriageway .
21 His wife April just scrapes enough money together to make the hundred and fifty mile round trip to see him twice a week
22 The earlier ships had high stems to breast the waves and low sterns : the keel projected from the stern , apparently to make the ship run straighter , although this feature was dispensed with later .
23 Having created the basic shape , I used some Anemone japonica flowers , but positioned them upside down to make the most of their silvery appearance , plus some Alchemilla alpina leaves , also upside down .
24 It is available in large and small sheets , which will need to be cut down to make the strips and panels you require .
25 at the county ground … it was hard going … we 've slowed the action down to make the most of Swindon 's best chance against fellow strugglers Sheffield United in a goaless draw …
26 The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation .
27 The faded youth only exists within the realm of the poem , his or her traces have otherwise vanished , necessarily so to make the verses ' truth actually true .
28 You also have to put enough detail in to make the people real , but do n't dally with subsidiary characters .
29 The maydes came in to make the bed , and hearing a thing in a case cry Tick , Tick , Tick , presently concluded that it was his Devill , and took it by the string with the tongues , and threw it out of the windowe into the mote ( to drown the Devill ) .
30 ‘ On the new album I went to extremes , and for each song I had two or three complete lead breaks worked out for every solo , prior to actually going in to make the album .
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