Example sentences of "be to make [num] " in BNC.

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1 The personal effect of the Budget , cautiously welcomed by industry and the City as broadly the correct recipe without upsetting the fragile recovery , will be to make millions worse off .
2 ‘ I believe that if the Institute were to make one of its inspections , it would not find anything to give them cause for concern over the way in which we have conducted our professional work , ’ Ms Harris says .
3 He is , however , prepared to recognize that it is unreasonable to expect McDonald 's to make one p.p.m .
4 The Meat and Livestock Commission is to make 97 technical and 14 clerical staff redundant early next year .
5 Ford is to make 1,487 redundancies at its UK car assembly and engine plants .
6 All I ask of you is to make one phone call to firm up a social event , and you ca n't even get that together ! ’
7 The Ashes urn is to make one of its rare trips away from Lord 's during November , when cricket 's most famous trophy will be on display at London 's Victoria & Albert Museum .
8 One solution for a large bay is to make one large pair of curtains to fit across the front window and allow it to be free standing , that is , do not fix its outer edges to the corners .
9 One of the things this experience does is to make one appreciate small mercies and small acts of kindness .
10 Anyway , it was the sort of remark that provoked Salman Rushdie 's wrath in the Independent on Sunday : ‘ To see so diverse a list dumped on people who simply have n't read the books is to make one feel a kind of despair about the culture of denigration in which we live .
11 A suggested first step in the use of any preparation , be it peel or thin section , is to make one or more photographs of the entire preparation ( Fig. 4.10 ) .
12 To write , as one historian has recently , that " a sign of the vitality and strength of Orthodox churchmanship in the eighteenth century was its capacity to put forth new branches : Methodism and Evangelicalism " is to make one point while obscuring another .
13 The luxury car maker Aston Martin is to make sixty five more people redundant .
14 Yarrow Shipbuilders is to make 510 redundancies in its ship outfitting division .
15 Swan Hunter is to make 1,400 redundancies because the company has been unable to find any new contracts .
16 In Arbroath the oil-related firm Halliburton Manufacturing is to make 64 workers redundant .
17 A children 's clothes factory is to make 90 workers redundant .
18 The simplest way is to make three columns , one headed ‘ categories ’ , the next headed ‘ essentials ’ , and the third headed ‘ desirable ’ .
19 The engineering firm of Giddings and Lewis is to make 50 workers redundant .
20 When I bought the business in 1984 , my first task was to make 8 employees redundant due to the cessation of manufacture of leg-cuffs .
21 For those who thought BMW 's master plan was to make one car in three different sizes , the new 3-series must be a perplexing product .
22 My response was to make one condition of my own — that the anthology should include prayers from other religions .
23 When the French nobility , in whose hands the resolution of such a crisis lay , made its choice , that choice was to make one of their number , Philip , count of Valois , king .
24 The second option was to make one single party out of the existing political organizations .
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