Example sentences of "[noun] to make [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grew sugar beet everywhere and built , on an island in the Thames still known as ‘ Brandy Island ’ , a large distillery to make spirit with the sugar beet . |
| 2 | The room was still in the mess in which the incident squad had left it , the desks pushed together to serve as mortuary slabs and the movable screens stacked to one side to make way for the meat sacks being carried out . |
| 3 | In Denmark , work has already begun on demolishing homes to make way for the bridge . |
| 4 | We might hold that our beliefs about our sensory states are always justified to some degree just because of their subject matter ( non-inferentially , therefore ) , whereas most other beliefs are justified inferentially if at all ; one could suppose this in an attempt to make sense of the empiricist idea that our beliefs about our present experience have a stability which other beliefs lack , in virtue of which they are able to justify those other beliefs and thus meet the empiricist demand ( vaguely expressed here ) that all our knowledge be grounded in our experience . |
| 5 | The nominalist impulse , therefore , which originates from the attempt to make generality in the world a creation of mind — thus allowing the extra-mental world to consist only of particulars — eventually leads to trying to explain the powers of the mind entirely in terms of the work of particulars . |
| 6 | We are committed to giving our viewers and listeners context — to give them the where-with-all to make sense of the world . |
| 7 | It took a long , cold and drenching effort to clear the surfline before we were able to turn side on to the waves to make progress along the coast . |
| 8 | Schools typically require parents to provide a note of explanation for their child 's absence or ask parents to make contact with the school in some other way . |
| 9 | The distribution will consist of indexing and searching utilities , including functions to make use of the database of rather simple knowledge about words and phrases referred to above . |
| 10 | For example , and engineer trained in remote-sensing techniques in the West would be unable to use his knowledge if his own country lacks the computer equipment to make sense of the data . |
| 11 | In 1970 an agreement was reached between British Waterways Board , Leicestershire County Council , and the Leicestershire Branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England to make part of the site accessible to the public and , so far as possible , to clear sufficient of the track to enable people to get some idea of how the system had been constructed and how it operated . |
| 12 | Screen metaphors have been developed for each of these areas to make location in the system a graphical attribute . |
| 13 | Observing that the effective school can help the disadvantaged child to make use of the opportunities schools provide , the report also commented upon the scale of the contribution which the effective school could make . |
| 14 | When the light pen is moved over the code , it triggers the chips to make sound through the loudspeaker . |
| 15 | ‘ But if you get the wrong cues , you have to adjust the lines to make sense of the dialogue . ’ |
| 16 | But before you get the graphic into your document you need to do a bit of donkey work to place it properly , setting up your own margins and tabs to make room for the image . |
| 17 | The thousands of tons of earth which were to be dug out of the meadow to make room for the foundations were to be piled up in nearby Merton playing field . |
| 18 | The starting points for the revision of the existing Conventions of 1905 and 1954 were a dissatisfaction with the indirect consular channel , as being inappropriate in current conditions , and a concern that the non-obligatory nature of the channels provided for in the existing text enabled some countries to make use of the system of notification au parquet to which increasing exception was taken . |
| 19 | The words " but not otherwise " were held to be a sufficient contra-indication to make time of the essence . |
| 20 | When one has the misfortune to make war in the interior of one 's own country , pure strategy can not always have the last word . |
| 21 | A member state may call upon the chair of the committee of senior officials to make contact with the state or states involved within 24 hours if its concerns about another member 's " major disruption to peace " are not adequately answered ; the committee 's chair in turn calls an extraordinary committee meeting , involving the full CSCE membership , within 2-3 days if 13 members support such a meeting . |
| 22 | I believe he was the first westerner to make contact with the Dalai Lama , who became a great friend . |
| 23 | Just as Stencil 's quest parodies the reader 's desire to make sense of the text through interpretative patterning , so his investigation of other periods becomes a ludicrous enactment of an author 's creation of characters . |
| 24 | Beyond this , current sensations converge with knowledge and memory and desire to make sense of the experience of the present : I not only experience this object but I recognize it — as something of a certain kind ; as yours , as mine , as something I have seen before ; and it means something to me in terms of my appetites and needs and ambitions . |
| 25 | Clearly , with ‘ reminiscers ’ , even those who find it difficult , there seems good reason for counsellors to make use of the process . |
| 26 | Leicester only needed a draw to make progress in the Cup . |
| 27 | The debenture included a common form power to appoint a receiver and manager over the assets charged in the event of the company 's failure to make payment of the sums secured on demand by the bank . |
| 28 | Most people affected by HIV have an inner need to make sense of the experience of living and dying and to do so with hope and creativity . |
| 29 | Once a vacancy has been offered , in authorities where there are guidelines for good practice , the social worker should have at least two weeks to make use of the vacancy for the client . |
| 30 | There is , at present , too wide a gap between our two perspectives to make agreement along the lines you very constructively suggest , likely . |