Example sentences of "[be] to make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , I regret that the effect of these changes would be to make professional cricket in England less different from the first-class game everywhere else in the world . |
| 2 | In practice , its mission will be to make sure the Contras in Honduras do not infiltrate Nicaragua , and to keep the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front ( FMLN ) guerrillas in El Salvador from seeking shelter in Honduras . |
| 3 | Your aim should be to make sure that your agreed deal addresses the questions that are most likely to arise . |
| 4 | Would not a moral lead to be to make sure that those people are paid while we come to a conclusion with the legislative committee about whether that piece of legislation was expedient ? |
| 5 | Ms Walker 's main job will be to make sure the hall 's famous Minton tiled floor is not damaged by either the cast 's or the audience 's feet . |
| 6 | ‘ We have n't got to the predicting level yet but the more familiar we are with the patterns , the better able we will be to make educated guesses . ’ |
| 7 | The thrust of government policy will be to make educational institutions more competitive in their search for pupils and students . |
| 8 | The result of Mr Kenneth Baker 's current thinking on a national curriculum , on a new negotiating structure for teachers ' pay and conditions ind on increasing the independence ind financial responsibility of individual schools would be to make local education authorities largely redundant . |
| 9 | We can not therefore , admitting that we or they did not know before , insist that we do know now , since that would be to make different claims in circumstances that show no relevant difference . |
| 10 | Blix also said that the IAEA 's effectiveness would be much increased if member countries were to make available to the agency relevant information gathered by spy satellites . |
| 11 | Finally , the ambiguous powers conceded in the donations left large areas of doubt that were to make political advancement by the popes difficult . |
| 12 | Delamont ( 1980 ) in her case-study of a comprehensive school discovered that ‘ the more teachers tried to make the lesson material relevant and immediate to the pupils , the more likely they were to make sexist assumptions and remarks ’ ( p. 54 ) . |
| 13 | For several reasons , one being to make sure our Ted hangs vertically from the carrier , it is best to pass this dropper strap through a couple of slots , in and out of the helmet . |
| 14 | But you see you only want a , a , a ladder for the time being to make sure you get up I mean you can jump |
| 15 | And that 's to make sure of our facts . |
| 16 | Blanche had summoned her to Claridge 's to make impossible suggestions about ‘ The Present and the Past ’ . |
| 17 | It had in fact been an early aim of Barthes 's to make structuralist discourse ‘ homogeneous with its object ’ ( literature ) . |
| 18 | Our challenge is to make explicit the basis for the intuitions and judgments that happen there and to make applicable the results of experimental interventions gained under more constrained conditions . |
| 19 | At the time he reached his last book , Human Knowledge , he had abandoned the claim that you could show that the world could be logically constructed out of sense experiences , and adopted a much more Kantian outlook , in which , while he erm said that all our inferences about the world must begin from sense experiences , all that the philosopher can do , is to make explicit the premises that are required in order to infer from the transitory data of my own experiences to the enduring existence of material things and the much more sophisticated kinds of existence which their minute constituents have . |
| 20 | Hewlett-Packard is to make separate announcements on the line . |
| 21 | The importance of music press writers like Paul Morley , and of disc jockeys like Peter Powell ( or John Peel ) , is to make available a public language in which private musical judgements can be legitimated . |
| 22 | A subsidiary aim of the project is to make available for discussion the methodology of making sociological inferences from such texts . |
| 23 | A common compromise is to make available to the vendor the bulk of the information but to exclude any sensitive material . |
| 24 | What we try to do is to make available to people opportunities for study in depth and over a fairly long period of time , on issues and in subjects which are part of University activity . |
| 25 | REUTERS is to make early payment of its 1992 final dividend so shareholders will not lose out from the new tax arrangements introduced in the Budget . |
| 26 | The aim is to make clustered 80486- or Pentium-based servers an attractive alternative to systems such as the Digital Equipment Corp VAXcluster . |
| 27 | One way open to the individual to beat these two traps is to make dishonest returns to the tax office , the benefit office , or both . |
| 28 | The idea is to make powerful syndicate members compete as never before ; but it also restricts non-syndicate members to selling only to small investors . |
| 29 | The next step is to make technical progress endogenous to the model . |
| 30 | ‘ The British people will say to themselves : ‘ Well here 's a government that 's got a majority of 100 , they 've been in office for 10 years , they 've had all these opportunities , and at the end of 10 years all they can think of to do is to make individual attacks on the Leader of the Opposition . ’ |