Example sentences of "it to make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They use it to make industrial bearings , and even springs . |
| 2 | New York State 's attorney general investigated the society and required it to make quarterly reports , an obligation that still applies today . |
| 3 | Judging by the latest letter he had received from New York , care of Isobel Dawson , it was going to go up with a bang — there had been sufficient talk of banning it to make sure that everybody bought it , without any real danger that it would be banned from the bookstores . |
| 4 | " Surrrrlllyee-noloan ! " might have been the echo 's echo but an extremely-dirty-white-coloured Con-dis-corde melted through the flesh of my left ear lobe on its path to a tasty dish of stewed pound notes , and some of the cooks had chartered it to make sure it got there so I did n't receive the echo 's echo . |
| 5 | On her way back up the stairs she struck it to make sure it had petrol . |
| 6 | The eldest brother was lying under the tree , keeping guard over it to make sure nobody stole the fruit , while the other two took some pears to market . |
| 7 | And just check it to make sure . |
| 8 | Having walked back to the cottage , she put the ladder against the wall , then tested it to make sure it was firm . |
| 9 | Agrippa claimed he used it to make sure wine was free of poison , though I do n't think it was possible for Agrippa to die . |
| 10 | I want to read all of it to make sure that it appears in Hansard . |
| 11 | Crumbling masonry means the Dolphin Centre needs millions spending on it to make sure it is safe . |
| 12 | ‘ Please check your bonfire before lighting it to make sure no hedgehogs have hibernated there . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Please check the bonfire before lighting it to make sure no hedgehogs have hibernated there . ’ |
| 14 | I think he 's made it to make sure it did n't mend because he wants the |
| 15 | I 'm stirring it to make sure it 's hot enough . |
| 16 | Right , whose responsibility is it to make sure the copy of the final tables is kept . |
| 17 | The data comes in almost without intervention , fills in the pages , and someone just checks it to make sure it fits and erm that 's a great system . |
| 18 | Remove any excess adhesive and use it to make good the mitres and joints . |
| 19 | The process of the recognition of the self 's capacity to sin but also to engage with the strength of the leaping God which enables it to make good its losses , is ritually enacted in the sacrament of penance . |
| 20 | I do n't think they 're in it to make zillions and zillions of pounds , I think they 're in it to make great records . |
| 21 | all green , all green along there I wonder I was just thinking it 's got all the bits in it to make that other one go |
| 22 | The reason this conclusion is objectionable is because the locution ‘ X has authority to pass laws of kind X ’ indicates in most contexts that X has the authority to issue such laws in order to use it to make such laws . |
| 23 | Mobile users can only use it to make outgoing calls , and must be near one of the 8,000-plus Rabbit base stations dotted across the country . |
| 24 | The PLA won enough seats to give it a two-thirds majority in the 250-member People 's Assembly , which would enable it to make constitutional changes without the support of other parties . |
| 25 | The next stage will be to put that ‘ judgemental ability ’ into a computer , teaching it to make intelligent guesses about events on the battlefield . |
| 26 | The WS286 was a nice machine that served me until September last year when , sadly , I had to replace it to make more room on my desk . |
| 27 | You can also use it to make brief notes/ reminders and for keeping essential telephone numbers . |
| 28 | Paul Bedworth , 19 , now studying artificial intelligence at Edinburgh University , allegedly brought the Brussels computer system to a halt after commanding it to make 50,000 phone calls . |
| 29 | And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values . |
| 30 | Acknowledging this interdependence allows us to make the courageous leap of ‘ letting in ’ the fetus , of rejecting the idea that it is simply a clump of cells , of taking it into our moral accounting and allowing it to make some claim on our attentions . |