Example sentences of "[vb pp] to make [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Duckworth recounted how in Palestine he had met a scribe whose craftsmanship had weakened with age and so was only permitted to make copies of the ‘ writings ’ a part of the O.T .
2 Held , dismissing the appeal , that notwithstanding the wording of section 8(2) of the Finance Act 1986 W. Plc. was not a member of the self-regulating organisation Lautro for the purposes of the Act and had no right of appeal to Lautro under the provisions of Lautro 's 1988 Rules ; that Lautro had a duty to act fairly not only to its members but , in appropriate circumstances , to those appointed representatives on which , in accordance with its rules , an intervention notice was to be served ; but that , in determining whether those affected by an intervention notice should be permitted to make representations before the notice was served , Lautro had to balance their interests against the interests of investors pending a full inquiry ; and that , having decided to serve the notice as a matter of urgency , Lautro should not be burdened with the necessity to decide whether time permitted it to receive representations before it served the notice ( post , pp. 575C–G , 576A–C , 577C–D , 579E — 580A , D — 581B , 582E ) .
3 Megaliths were smashed to make gate-posts or road-stone , blown up or pushed aside to clear space for the plough .
4 A course is normally programmed to make irregularities clear in the language system .
5 Will the new agency be expected to make contracts with private sector companies for the management of what would in effect be rival penal establishments , or will this function continue to be performed by the Home Office ?
6 The estimated cost was in the region of £3,000 per inmate , though the residents would be expected to make contributions towards the overheads through sick benefit or social security payments .
7 She knew that junior deacons in their second curacies , even if they came from distinguished clerical families , were not expected to make contributions uninvited when in the presence of very senior clergy .
8 Both Sun Microsystems Inc , due to announce systems based upon Viking on May 19th , and UK Sparc-builder ICL , which has already announced its Viking intentions ( UX No 371 ) , are expected to make statements about Viking availability on the 7th .
9 BNF is currently the world 's only supplier of fuel for AGRs , and Scottish Nuclear , which is expected to make profits of around £28 million this year from supplying electricity to ScottishPower and Scottish Hydro-Electric , is considering putting up the money to build the necessary fuel production facilities if its latest move comes to anything .
10 They will be expected to make presentations to the seminar group , not only on lesson preparation but also on integrating communicative activities .
11 The goal of the group , according to Tim Newell of OSTP , is to propose specific ways to carry out the president 's technology initiative announced in February , but the group is also expected to make recommendations for programmes to be included in the budget for fiscal year 1995 that will be submitted to Congress next winter .
12 They are designed to make students aware of the personal and social development which is an intrinsic part of undertaking such a programme of activities .
13 They had been accused of deceiving the Department of Trade and Industry by claiming machine tools destined for Iraq had peaceful purposes when they were specifically designed to make fuses for shells .
14 The program , which will cost £59.95 , has been designed to make accounts easy for the non-specialist user .
15 Physical examples include equipment designed to make components that will fit into the product of only one buyer ( for example , exhausts for Rolls-Royce cars ) or dispensing machines that can handle packsizes peculiar to one supplier .
16 SOME of the longer-serving staff and graduates may remember that in the mid-1970s the University embarked on a major review of its Charter and Statutes , designed to make changes in governance which we thought desirable after ten years of operation .
17 The programme may easily be criticised as a political ploy designed to make decisions already taken look like the result of democratic process .
18 A Barclays Deposit Account is designed to make savings simple , convenient and safe .
19 Procedure before the industrial tribunal is relatively simple , being designed to make applications easy to process without legal advice , and the rules of evidence are not strictly applied by the tribunal .
20 ADT Healthquest is a serious and vital campaign designed to make individuals and industry aware of the benefits of active , healthy living . ’
21 This similarity should caution against making too firm a distinction between the three ; for example one might have sought to make distinctions in terms of being instances of either ‘ new ’ or ‘ old ’ racism , especially on the grounds that new racists , unlike old racists , will justify their position by citing non-racial general principles ( Sniderman and Tetlock , 1986a , 1986b ; see also Potter and Wetherell , 1987 , for arguments against deducing ‘ true ’ attitudes from discourse ) .
22 In that moment , the student is freed to make decisions , to make judgements about the balance of the evidence , or to opt for a particular course of action .
23 Then poor old Eddy had been a jungle of faint electric circuits connected to make thoughts and memories and aches and sleepiness , like a blackboard of chalk dust patterned to form the binomial theorem or the history of the Fourth Crusade .
24 But local authorities are generally empowered to make regulations and by-laws for the use of public places where meetings might be held ( such as parks and squares ) , and the assertion of quasi-private property rights are generally sufficient to exclude the claims of those seeking to exercise rights of freedom of speech in public .
25 Congress is not empowered to make laws for the states or to substitute them for the laws of individual states and so on .
26 The Campaign also believes local communities should be empowered to make decisions about the shape of their own local area and directly involved in the process of protection , enhancement and management .
27 But the harsh reality is that if I had n't been picked by England for the tour to India , I would have struggled to make ends meet this winter — I do n't know what I would have done .
28 He read out a statement saying : ‘ We and our families are no longer prepared to make sacrifices for those who have brought the army into disrepute .
29 It seemed that the whole country had gone mad clamouring to put money into the new transport system which was destined to make fortunes for its investors .
30 The Soviet people could only be made to make sacrifices if Stalin had the threat of capitalism .
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