Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] to make [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one should be tempted to make causal connections between these outrages and the SNP 's recent demonstration at the Warrington office or Andrew Welsh 's ill-guarded remarks about direct action . |
| 2 | Heinz suggested that laws and constitutions of countries should be strengthened to make international declarations against torture into enforceable law . |
| 3 | Er , and in this instance I have consistently erm , asked that we , we do all we can , to allow us to spend our capital receipts , and the fact that we had the holiday last year was er , er , of of great benefit to this this council , erm , there are er times when we should er perhaps be putting money into reserves or paying off debt , but this council should be allowed to make those decisions rather |
| 4 | As we describe in a paper soon to be published by the Brookings Institution in Washington , DC , they should be required to make non-interest-bearing deposits with their central bank . |
| 5 | What is at issue is whether improved resource levels should be used to make special schools internally more satisfactory , doing what they have historically done but doing it in some sense more efficiently , or whether those resources are used in an attempt to improve the general education service in ways which might reduce its need for transferring pupils to special schools . |
| 6 | Current drugs education materials targeted at 13-17 year olds are based on two premises : i ) that substance abuse needs to be approached in the context of the general use of legal drugs in society and ii ) that young people should be encouraged to make rational decisions about their use of drugs on the basis of criteria related to personal health , self-identity and relationships with others . |
| 7 | They need to be able to recognise on sight a large proportion of the words they encounter and to be able to predict meaning on the basis of phonic , idiomatic and grammatical regularities and of what makes sense in context ; children should be encouraged to make informed guesses . |
| 8 | However , an attempt must be made to make constructive suggestions , even if there are glaring contradictions . |
| 9 | Three factors ( size , speed , and groove-pitch ) might be manipulated to make long-playing records . |
| 10 | If Saddam Hussein or Colonel Qaddaffi were bidding for control of a firm that employs 130,000 people , makes explosives and could be made to make chemical weapons , that would be reason for concern . |
| 11 | No legislation could be expected to make ready-money dealings the universal rule . |
| 12 | While there are tools that have more stitch hooks ( optional ) and these could be used to make wider cables , a three over three pattern probably remains the most comfortable to work with . |
| 13 | We have also seen how Raman polarization data and gas-phase band contours may be used to make complete assignments of the observed bands to vibrations of particular symmetry species . |
| 14 | Standard techniques may be used to make broad comparisons between groups of individuals but the statistical analysis of changes over time and interrelationships between events , topics often of special interest to the psychologist , is much less well understood . |
| 15 | Whilst the evident unpopularity of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe may be thought to make such forces reliable in wartime for garrison and rear duties only , fact is that these military forces are trained and equipped for a war with NATO , according to an offensive doctrine of ‘ coalition warfare ’ , designed to place them from the start of hostilities onto an ‘ external front ’ . |
| 16 | Peter Field , the chief Australian negotiator , said that although developing countries in the " Cairns Group " would be expected to make lower cuts in protective import tariffs , their endorsement of the proposals showed that they were " prepared to bite the bullet " . |
| 17 | Finally , CytR would be expected to make identical contacts to the two cAMP-CRP complexes in deoP2 . |
| 18 | The producers of public expenditure have helped increase public spending since the competition for votes has led politicians to promise more and more spending ; moreover , since governments come into office with a vast amount of spending commitments inherited from previous governments , their ability to reduce these commitments substantially is limited through the length of time that would be required to make such reductions , and further , they are unlikely to court unpopularity through doing so . |
| 19 | The opposition parties will be invited to make individual contributions on that day , and to send a small number of delegates . |
| 20 | Katharine will be expected to make two speeches during her visit , but for now she 's practicing the most important phrase : thank-you for having me . |
| 21 | If Corys can be seen to make repeated dashes to the aquarium surface , this tends to indicate a low oxygen level ; a high nitrate level , and/or low pH . |
| 22 | The task of Positive economics , Friedman says , ‘ is to provide a system of generalisations that can be used to make correct predictions about the consequences of any change in circumstances ’ . |
| 23 | The surveys of 1977 and 1981 covered very large samples and can be used to make reliable statements not only about Scottish secondary education as a whole but also about each of the 450 secondary schools in Scotland . |
| 24 | Strips of this make ideal flashings for brickwork , whilst whole plates can be used to make weatherproof roofs for sheds . |
| 25 | Spare marzipan trimmings can be used to make little flowers to surround the toadstool . |
| 26 | A distinction must be made at this stage between things which can be used to make unauthorized copies of programs , but which also have legitimate uses ( for example , computers with two disk drives and cassette players with twin tape decks ) and things specifically designed to overcome copy-protection such as software to be used to copy other software which has been copy-protected . |
| 27 | In 16 , however ( and perhaps in 15 , too ) , it is possible to argue not only that the two sentences can be used to make identical statements , but more specifically that horse and mare make effectively the same semantic contribution to their respective sentences . |
| 28 | Furthermore , graduates can be expected to make fewer demands on the public purse in later life . |