Example sentences of "making [pron] [adj] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This disease has devastated cocoa plantations in several countries ; it is caused by a fungus which produces broom-like clusters of deformed shoots on the branches , and also infects the pods , making them worthless to the farmer .
2 But , in the case of the latter it has been recognised that as regards the obligation , now in section 242 , to deliver accounts and reports to the Registrar ( thus making them available to the public ) they ( like partnerships ) are entitled to exemption .
3 In this instance , by establishing a relationship of immediacy with our unconscious , one object is able to control the nature of our consciousness , making it appropriate to the context within which that object is working .
4 Once again , we are making it clear to the Minister and putting it firmly on record that , in its present form , the Bill does nothing to make it likely that the Government 's words , which have been employed to make the Bill more politically acceptable in Scotland , will be translated into reality .
5 But in February 1681 many witnesses began to see more advantage in making themselves acceptable to the government than to the Whigs , and in stating that attempts had been made to suborn them to give evidence .
6 The kind of society we live in — broadly the industrial capitalism which is being embraced by more and more of the world — is making us prone to the alienation and isolation on which madness feeds .
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