Example sentences of "to make end [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the theatre now under financial siege , these are the only shows now possible to make ends meet . |
| 2 | It was the time of their lives when they found it hardest to make ends meet . |
| 3 | She is forced to buy things from charity shops to make ends meet . |
| 4 | Prove to your husband that you are not extravagant but point out that it is impossible to make ends meet on a pittance . |
| 5 | In the fight to make ends meet , she was obliged to surround herself with people . |
| 6 | The Cabernet Sauvignon from Languedoc is made by a company that was struggling to make ends meet by blending plonk until a few years ago . |
| 7 | In Appalachia , as in other areas of the world which we are increasingly becoming aware of , there has been a growing pressure for small-scale hill farmers to diversify their income with non-agricultural work , or else to sell out and move due to the increasing financial burden of trying to make ends meet . |
| 8 | Of course you are still bound to make ends meet , but you no longer have to make all your decisions in terms of money profit as the first requirement . |
| 9 | Many of their pees are much less visible because they are cares trapped at home or are struggling to make ends meet . |
| 10 | Many also have second or third jobs to make ends meet . |
| 11 | Some of the smaller stations already find it difficult to make ends meet — and the arrival of a national commercial channel , which would take most of the country-wide advertising , could put them out of business . |
| 12 | Her life was a ceaseless round of hard work , of struggling to make ends meet , of keeping up appearances and yet her lion-like spirit showed through . |
| 13 | Most of the rainforests belong to developing countries which have to resort to milking their most precious resource to make ends meet , and to pay back money lent to them by Western countries . |
| 14 | Farmers normally convert their farm bit by bit , in order to make ends meet until the conversion is complete . |
| 15 | How he disciplined himself to make ends meet in that difficult time he explained in his book What To Do When Someone Has Debt Problems , A Practical Survival Guide ( 1985 ) , in the Introduction to which he wrote : |
| 16 | The eldorado lifestyle may look like a whirl of sun , sea and sangria — but what of the real-life ex-pats , struggling to make ends meet on Spain 's recession-hit Costa del Sol ? |
| 17 | It was a dismal prospect , what with the strikes and inflation , the endless chores , the daily boredom and the uphill struggle to make ends meet ; the whole effort was of doubtful benefit and hardly worth the candle . |
| 18 | She is unemployed and depends upon benefits to make ends meet . |
| 19 | Dr Spink said : ‘ He ought to be defending those who are finding it difficult to make ends meet here . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So , early this century , the regulatory position might be briefly summarised as protecting the minority of people driven into debt to make ends meet ; on the assumption that they faced not only hardship in itself but also particular risk of exploitation by unscrupulous lenders . |
| 22 | Then , credit is seen as a necessity ( Appendix II ; section 1 ) : ‘ You buy on credit to make ends meet … . ’ , ‘ none of us would have things if it was n't for catalogues ’ , ‘ … when you want to replace anything you are forced to use HP because you do n't have the cash ’ . |
| 23 | In any income range , people can find it difficult to make ends meet — especially with steep inflation . |
| 24 | What is clear is that when people do resort to credit to make ends meet , their anxieties increase . |
| 25 | My brother Charlie 's left 'ome an' sister Mary 's married an' Mum 'as to go out cleaning the fish an' chip shop to make ends meet . ’ |
| 26 | Father had given up tobacco and alcohol to send me £2 15s ( Pounds 2.75 ) a week to make ends meet . |
| 27 | Many were forced to take part-time jobs or handouts from parents to make ends meet . |
| 28 | Using terms like the ‘ primary stage of socialism ’ , and the ‘ socialist commodity economy ’ , did little to placate students and other low-income groups who were struggling to make ends meet . |
| 29 | They were finding it hard to make ends meet and life had become very miserable . |
| 30 | The level of the basic retirement pension is such that those who rely on it must either live a frugal existence ( Holman , 1986 ) , take part time jobs for as long as possible to make ends meet or claim income support . |