Example sentences of "[be] [adv] to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman for the Department of Trade and Industry said : ‘ The changes are generally to make the advertisements clearer and easier to understand . |
| 2 | She had been downstairs to make tea . |
| 3 | ‘ I think the knobbly wheels are just to make it grip the ground better , ’ said Dorcas , his voice sounding a long way off . |
| 4 | As one top sharedealer put it , " You 're here to make yourselves money , not your clients . " |
| 5 | Nevertheless , if we are ever to make new discoveries about intonation , it will be as a result of studying what people actually say rather than inventing examples of what they might say . |
| 6 | If we are genuinely to make the services more acceptable and enhance users ' individual experiences we must take seriously the users ' views about their own personal treatment and care . |
| 7 | ‘ Coaching needs to have a much bigger presence if we are really to make a big impact . |
| 8 | ‘ My aspirations were then as they are now to make it my business to make clothes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Whether or not he felt an ounce of embarrassment ( probably not ) , it had to be enough to make him aware of waiters . |
| 11 | ‘ No , I 'm here to make a report to the governor . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm here to make a killing . |
| 13 | The mikva attendant must always be there to make sure that every hair on your head is totally immersed in the water , so when you are ready , you call her and then make your descent into the mikva . |
| 14 | It was more than Phil could bear to think that he would never again be there to make Christmas sparkle for her . |
| 15 | Wanting someone , like he wanted Kelly Connor , was no novelty to Jack — hardly a day passed when it did n't happen to him — but a quick telephone call and a Suzi or a Debra , one of his sexual Samaritans , would be there to make it feel better . |
| 16 | ‘ But he was pretty down in the dumps and I felt terrible because I could n't be there to make his Christmas complete . |
| 17 | I 'll be there to make sure things like that do n't happen . |
| 18 | And when you finally trip , I 'll be there to make sure you complete your fall . ’ |
| 19 | She watched , not pursuing in what event he might not be there to make it himself . |
| 20 | Wendy was so furious at the demand by the bank , whose motto is ‘ We are here to make life easier ’ , that she stormed out of the branch in Eastwood , Notts . |
| 21 | And that means that all these questions you are jumping in with will be answered as part of the statement I am here to make . |
| 22 | I am here to make speeches and take part in processions . |
| 23 | Others , observed one bystander , might even have been there to make sure . |
| 24 | Luckily , I am there to make sure he snaps out of it . |
| 25 | Our people are there to make an arrangement which suits you . |
| 26 | The quotation marks in the last sentence are there to make a point . |
| 27 | They are there to make your Cosmos Holiday booking easy and most of them will be directly connected to our computer via our Viewdata system and therefore have access to all the latest information , prices and holiday offers at the touch of a button . |
| 28 | Before you pack your computer back in its box and reinstate your typewriter , remember that the additional keys on the computer keyboard are there to make life easier — and they do . |
| 29 | Loose coupling relations are there to make quality assurance inspections practicable . |
| 30 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |