Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | In each lexical domain , children appear to make the same assumption : newly acquired words contrast with those already known . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Some expert clauses seek to make the appointing authority ( or its president ) responsible for ensuring the expert has suitable qualifications . |