Example sentences of "to make the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be careful not to break the sentence in unnatural places , but let the language helper suggest where to make the breaks . |
| 2 | The Lords had initially upheld the interlocutory injunctions although the House subsequently refused to make the injunctions permanent . |
| 3 | part of the telephone box used to make the threats was dismantled and taken away for forensic examinations |
| 4 | The only leverage I have to make the users act rationally is to show them the effect these price hikes have on my book fund , about which they are just a tad sensitive . |
| 5 | Under the Newman system , each Producer would be allocated a Story ( Script ) Editor to free him from writing overheads , and a pool of ( mostly staff ) Directors actually to make the programmes . |
| 6 | In return BBC Scotland received £27 million to make the programmes screened during the periods it opted out of the national network , and £14.5m towards the cost of making programmes in Scotland for the network . |
| 7 | Spectacular cures for iron deficiency are possible with iron sulphate , but the safest way to use it is as a very weak solution — no more that can be heaped on a 1p coin in a full gallon of water — mist-sprayed on just enough to make the leaves glisten , not drench and drip . |
| 8 | Compared with the billions being spent out of the road fund in England to make the motorways even wider , the cost would be chicken-feed . |
| 9 | Whenever aircraft returned from raids the first persons to be allowed on board were the squadron armourers , whose job it was to make the bombs safe before anything else could be done , and this could be a highly tricky and dangerous undertaking , especially where incendiary bombs or those with time delay devices were concerned . |
| 10 | The first priority would be for the ground crews to make the bombs safe , then put out the fires and get the injured off , and everything done at top speed in case the whole lot went up . |
| 11 | I have actually developed techniques to overcome this , the major one being to make the parents join in . |
| 12 | This can be either broad , with the full expression of human feeling common only to the Labour movement , or it may be narrow , niggardly and mean with only the objective of shirking responsibility , and never carrying out in the spirit of those laws work which could be applied to make the conditions of the working people easier , and the lives of their children brighter and better . |
| 13 | The acquirer may not have the time or be willing to make the inspections and will not want to accept the risk that some information may have been given to one of its employees or advisers who was unable at the time to appreciate its significance in relation to the transaction , or indeed may have been forgotten . |
| 14 | You put that short one over the long ones to make the skirts stand out . ’ |
| 15 | The president still has to make a host of key decisions : how generous to make the benefits ; how to pay for the changes ; how much freedom to give the states and , above all , how to sell the package . |
| 16 | Helped by eminent scientists , Bate worked continually to improve the hydrometers and his skills were acknowledged when he was asked to make the models for the new standard weights and measures of capacity enacted by Parliament in 1825 to replace existing ancient local measures . |
| 17 | He says ; When we are flying we are trying to make the models look as light as possible . |
| 18 | The words used to make the feelings communicable to others from different cultures and sub-cultures are not attempts to turn emotions into intellectual propositions and to make them comprehensible in that sense . |
| 19 | ‘ After ascertaining that the reproductions had not been printed by the artist herself ’ , he writes , ‘ [ The Copyright Office ] ruled that the printer 's contribution added enough originality to the process to make the reproductions derivative works … and that the copyrights of the reproductions were therefore owned by the printers . |
| 20 | The Kremlin Armoury and the Hermitage sent their trucks to pick up the shipments at customs , and to make the rounds in their respective cities . |
| 21 | Sec. to make the alterations and resubmit the minutes . |
| 22 | We 've made a concerted effort in recent years to make the articles in our association magazine , Business Credit , relevant to the day-to-day problems credit and financial managers face , and to present the latest techniques and applications . |
| 23 | Purchased machinery to make the chairs at a cost of £4,000 paid for immediately . |
| 24 | We have to make the floods less damaging . ’ |
| 25 | Unless the offer is recommended and a shut-out ( see para 8.2 below ) is possible ( so that the offeror knows in advance that its offer will be successful ) , the offeror will normally wish to make the rights issue conditional on the offer becoming or being declared wholly unconditional . |
| 26 | If after our Booking Allocation has been issued , you wish to change to another of our holidays or alter your booking in any way ( e.g. by changing your departure date or accommodation ) we will do our utmost to make the changes , provided written notification is received at our offices from the person who signed the Booking Form , or your Travel Agent , at least six weeks before your departure date . |
| 27 | In order to make the changes that climatologists say we need , scientists and technologists will need to talk and listen to economists , social and political scientists . |
| 28 | It is , indeed , quite a common occurrence for a government to have second thoughts about a Bill during or after its progress through the Commons and to use its supporters in the House of Lords to make the changes in a Bill then seen to be desirable . |
| 29 | The workers would rather stick to the status quo but know that an industrial tribunal would rule that the employer was forced to make the changes for supposedly sound economic reasons , and moreover had sought to agree financial compensation . |
| 30 | Severn Trent is being forced to make the changes at the Netheridge Sewage Works near Gloucester at a cost of more than thirty million pounds … a cost that 'll be shouldered by the customer . |