Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] to make the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The researchers hope to make the new material more like elephant tusk by streaking it and roughening the texture . |
| 2 | Such responses help to make the important point that just because mass media were good at spreading news and information , those were not the only purposes they served . |
| 3 | This omission , together with a lack of any technical details on how it actually works combine to make the Light Rifle somewhat less of a genuine alternative to a joystick and more of a gimmick . |
| 4 | In each lexical domain , children appear to make the same assumption : newly acquired words contrast with those already known . |
| 5 | Four factors combine to make the British countryside what it is today : the geology of the earth 's crust , the climatic history of the glacial and post-glacial ages , the present-day climate ( particularly rainfall ) , and the influence of man . |
| 6 | Networks operating on this principle perform an operation that is likely to be extremely important for the neocortex , and it was actually the search for a mechanism that would do this that led us to the suggested modification rule : the modifiable interconnections tend to make the representative elements become uncorrelated , and thus to signal independently of each other . |
| 7 | Some expert clauses seek to make the appointing authority ( or its president ) responsible for ensuring the expert has suitable qualifications . |
| 8 | As long as those who use the concept of structured dependency continue to make the automatic association of retirement with dependency , and of work with independence , they will continue to bolster conservative notions of the competitive work ethic . |