Example sentences of "to make [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fundholders are uncertain about their ability to make savings year after year , particularly in an increasingly cost contained environment . |
| 2 | • Beleaguered Porsche is considering a plan by engineering chief Ulrich Bez to downgrade future equipment levels to make cars lighter — and faster . |
| 3 | The pressure to make cars lighter , and so more fuel-efficient , has pushed up the proportion of plastic in a typical car , from around 2% of the weight in 1960 to 12% today ( see chart 5 on previous page ) . |
| 4 | When Germany was attacking our vital Atlantic life-line in December 1940 , Wolverton Works were asked by the Admiralty to make Domes S.L. , part of the famous ( ASDIC ) device for detecting the presence of submarines . |
| 5 | ‘ The next point I wish to make concerns services and deals with the position of employees of organisations , bodies , or firms which provide services , where the employee is in receipt of those services free or at a reduced rate . |
| 6 | Bill Beeby , of Boeing Aircraft Co in the United States , in his description of their search for an integrated manufacturing system , claims that they were nearest that goal when the firm was first set up to make sports planes for their wealthy owner . |
| 7 | A gift from Woolworths is guaranteed to make Grandparents Day a day to remember . |
| 8 | It will be reluctant to propose a law to make banks £500m richer at the expense of local taxpayers . |
| 9 | Dr Ger Van Vliet , scientific director of the Botanical Gardens in Lieden , said his tasks in the next three years would be to make customs officials more aware of endangered plants , reducing the illegal trade , and help countries supplying wild plants to sell correctly propagated specimens . |
| 10 | In both England and France the need to make armies mobile was perhaps one of the major developments of the period , and shows how important versatility was coming to be regarded by the leaders of the day . |
| 11 | OD1 proved itself much more like the classic Marshall sound , with enough dirt to make things ballsy , but not so much that backing off the guitar did n't clean up the tone for real blues rhythm playing and crunchy Bryan Adams-type chords . |
| 12 | Seiko Epson has begun using the new technology to make 4″ displays , aiming to grow output to 1.5m a year . |
| 13 | In particular , the USA wanted the Bank to make loans conditional on adherence to policy reforms , especially private-sector development , and to end co-financing with commercial banks . |
| 14 | An international team of distinguished academics reported recently in the journal Minerv'a that ‘ We were particularly amazed to discover that the autonomy of German universities to make admissions policies and admissions has been substantially curtailed by the establishment of a single central admission procedure , the ZVS , located in Dortmund and utilising a programmed computer ’ . |
| 15 | Manufacturers have been oiling the wheels of technology to make fryers slicker with the help of computerisation . |
| 16 | It 's becoming the fashion among big clients to make lawyers pitch for their custom . |
| 17 | There are reserve powers in the Bill to make pensions orders if satisfactory pensions arrangements are not provided by any of the privatised companies . |
| 18 | Should a company , after privatisation , fail to establish satisfactory pension arrangements , we would consider using the reserve powers in clause 12 to make pensions orders . |
| 19 | Using this technology SunSelect intends to make Windows emulation available for Solaris 2.1 in the second quarter of next year and will eventually deliver the stuff on multiple platforms . |
| 20 | Voicetype Control For Windows sounds like it may be a deliberate attempt to make Windows users unpopular with their colleagues — it enables them to replace various keyboard and mouse commands with the spoken word . |
| 21 | The justification was to make police patrols more unpredictable to potential malefactors . |
| 22 | A reformed Press Council , by these lights , tugs in the wrong , conformist direction ( and , see its proferred code , is a sight too deferential to great and good bodies , like itself , who want to make papers toe the line ) . |
| 23 | A reformed Press Council , by these lights , tugs in the wrong , conformist direction ( and , see its proferred code , is a sight too deferential to great and good bodies , like itself , who want to make papers toe the line ) . |
| 24 | It has been loosely referred to as any mode of policing other than the rapid-response crime control type ; an alternative which specifically seeks to make constables part of the community by making them responsible for a geographical area , known as ‘ permanent ’ or ‘ home ’ beats ; a means of developing communication between the police and the local community ; and a process by which responsibility for crime control and prevention is shared with the community , both also known as ‘ community relations ’ ( Weatheritt 1983 : 4–5 ) . |
| 25 | We will transform the Careers Service to make careers advice available to everyone , young or old , employed or unemployed . |