Example sentences of "to make [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For sure he takes pains to make Tikhon a human puzzle so that he sha n't in any obvious way speak God 's truth . |
| 2 | Nozick develops a model which enables him to make primary a principle with respect to entitlement . |
| 3 | I think this is an absolutely disgusting thing to say , to appear to make voyeurism a worse sin than the murder of my son . ’ |
| 4 | I think that that is an absolutely disgusting thing to say , to appear to make voyeurism a greater sin than the murder of my son , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I think that that is an absolutely disgusting thing to say , to appear to make voyeurism a greater sin than the murder of my son . ’ |
| 6 | Try as they might , the City 's denizens have never been as colourful and flamboyant as those who set out to make crime a career rather than just a sideline . |
| 7 | This has led some authors to make Sivapithecus a human ancestor , and others to recognize the affinities of these fossil genera with the orang-utan but provide evidence linking the orang clade with humans . |
| 8 | Whatever their private opinions , the liberals were willing to establish catholicism as the sole religion of Spain , to make heresy a crime , to allow episcopal censorship of religious works ; as Larra was to observe , it was a one-legged freedom that permitted only ‘ political ’ discussion and it shows the limitations imposed on liberalism by fear of the Church . |
| 9 | In the long run administrators try to make capitalism a positive-sum game from which all classes can gain . |
| 10 | The woman searches — though these days she does n't know it , matters of procreation being so far from anyone 's thoughts — for a good father for her young , adequate in looks , more than adequate as a provider ; the man searches for a good , kind and competent mother for his children , not such a dog as to make copulation a problem — both settle for the best he or she can do . |
| 11 | So the very feature of our own legal practice that seemed to make conventionalism a good interpretation of legal practice — the deep , constant concern judges and lawyers show about the " correct " reading of statutes and precedents in hard cases actually an embarrassment to that conception . |
| 12 | Current regulations on safety are dismissed as ‘ woefully inadequate ’ and the association calls on drivers to boycott models if manufacturers fail to make safety a priority . |
| 13 | With regard to the schools , there is a danger in the decision to make citizenship a cross-curricular theme . |
| 14 | The aim is to make AMNESTY a clearer , more accessible and informative publication . |
| 15 | The day centres are clearly part of a campaign to make probation a ‘ tougher ’ option for the courts . |
| 16 | We had a convener of the group who was energetic , out , and determined to make CHE a dynamic group . |
| 17 | This year 's production number was of particular interest and significance because the Conservative high command is planning to make leadership a key issue at the next general election , only two years away . |
| 18 | But to sit still and watch while the ships proceeded on their lawful business , to know every class , every rig and every cargo , is to make inactivity a virtue , and Willis from Dreadnought and from points along the shore as far as the Cat and Lobster at Gravesend had honourably conducted the profession of looking on . |
| 19 | Total Quality Management ( TQM ) and BS5750 initiatives are formal expressions of a desire to make quality a priority which may also be expressed in a more informal way . |
| 20 | Particularly in the early period , moreover , the number of usages one comes across is so low as to make definition a hazardous business . |
| 21 | Range of Services Available ( to make choice a reality ) |
| 22 | Jill wanted to get Bill a birthday present , so she went and found her piggy-bank ; she shook it , but there was no noise ; she would have to make Bill a present This example comes from work in artificial intelligence ( Charniak , 1972 ) which is concerned with the attempt to translate the significance of ordinary utterances into an explicit representation that might be used by a computer to produce " intelligent " responses . |
| 23 | He added that the answer was enforcement , the most effective method of which would be for The Stock Exchange to make compliance a listing condition . |
| 24 | It tends to make life a bit dull at work and we 've tried to come to terms with that . |
| 25 | Next day they were off again , leaving the wounded and rejected to make life a misery for their womenfolk . |
| 26 | It would seem nowadays that we are trying to make life a pleasure trip . |
| 27 | In this article I will try to give you a few tips to make life a little easier . |
| 28 | Mercifully , the Windows shell offers you tick boxes instead of command line switches to make life a little easier . |
| 29 | But just to make life a lot easier — and that helps when you only have a 30 second commercial in which to get your philosophy and bargain offer across — advertising agencies have edited out death . |
| 30 | However er during the course of our er dialogues with the management , er and I must say this that er they did introduce er whenever asked , new equipment , new tools , they did everything possible to make life a bit easier for our members er in that respect . |