Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [verb] [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 The trick of making eyes smoulder is to apply solid colour sparingly , then smudge and spread it by softening the edges . |
| 2 | In the view of most Brussels officials , the alternative of making traders list every item bought and sold across borders would be intolerable and undermine the purpose of 1992 , which is to make trading between EC countries as simple as possible . |
| 3 | Instead of conventional peeling medications such as resorcinol or benzoylperoxide , some dermatologists are now prescribing a more powerful peeling medication based on retinoic acid , a synthetic derivative of vitamin A. This ingredient has been discovered to also have the effect of making skin look younger ; extensive testing is being carried out . |
| 4 | The treatment of the sky and of the areas between the various landscape objects , the boats , lighthouses and breakwaters , in terms of the same facets or pictorial units into which the objects themselves are dissolved , has the effect of making space seem as real , as material , one might almost say as ‘ pictorial ’ as the solid objects themselves . |
| 5 | The white ground has the effect of making light seem to emanate from within pictures like the great Picardy Coast Scene with Children — Sunrise owned by HM the Queen or A Fishmarket near Boulogne from the Yale Center for British Art . |
| 6 | And I think that the question of making people do things , that 's something in all societies which does n't change too much . |
| 7 | ‘ My guru has always been Raymond , because he has the skill of making women look beautiful . |
| 8 | But it becomes clear that Krashen is not thinking of theory in general , that is to say of a theoretical perspective on pedagogy , but of a theory in particular which can be applied directly ; not , therefore , of the process of referring actual problems to abstract ideas but the process of making practice conform to a preconceived conceptual pattern . |
| 9 | The first stage in the process of making men disappear was to ignore them totally . |
| 10 | I know that the summaries of guidance is is in that list , and from the brief discussion we had at the careers officer 's meeting this week about summaries of guidance , I know we 're starting off the process by having representatives come to a meeting on the eleventh of May . |
| 11 | Counter-insurgency theory accepts this fact as basic and concentrates on ways to expedite the process by making terrorists appear even more violent , callous and irresponsible than they are . |
| 12 | We are all in the business of making people laugh — and in Carry On films there is only one way to do that — good old slapstick humour . ’ |
| 13 | Ian Stewart is a professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick , and the author of Does God Play Dice ? and Game , Set , & Math . |
| 14 | Michael had the gift of making people want to please him , as if by giving him pleasure they were somehow indebted to him . |
| 15 | ALCOHOL dehydrates the body by making drinkers pass more urine and by now Liz is feeling these effects , so she visits the bathroom . |
| 16 | And then , if I have achieved the aim of helping teachers understand their predicament , I hope that they may feel more purposeful , both individually and collectively , and thereby become a more powerful source of ideas and projects for the improvement of schooling , which are grounded simultaneously in a clear sense of educational values and an equally clear-sighted , hard-headed sense of what is possible and appropriate . |
| 17 | Implicit in the use of the problem-solving approach described above is the aim of helping people acquire coping skills which can be used not just to solve the current problems but also to deal with some of those that may occur subsequently . |
| 18 | The boys advanced : relieved from the onus of making Dada speak , they were quite eager in their delayed approaches . |
| 19 | Hospitality is the art of making people feel at home when you wish they were at home |
| 20 | The shock of hearing Dana say she was jealous would have to be pushed to the back of her mind for now . |
| 21 | Little more than twenty-four hours later , he was in hospital for an operation on damaged arteries in his legs , the price of making people laugh . |
| 22 | Apart from the personal debt many have incurred to gain qualifications , they also have the prospect of seeing ratings expire and hard-won skills dulled by lack of practice . |
| 23 | The Turkish manoeuvres which culminated in what seemed to be the disaster of Sinope had the object of making Nicholas look aggressive , but if the sultan hoped to increase the determination of Britain and France to put Russia in her place , he found that Britain , at least , dragged her feet . |
| 24 | This achieved the objective of making Berenguer split his force into three groups , each to watch one of the passes from the valley . |
| 25 | I made the mistake of letting Jan know I share a flat with a Man . |
| 26 | The host raised an interesting topic — ‘ the subject of making women do penance in the church for fornication ’ : Johnson , who does not mention this conversation , uses the word ‘ infamy ’ and relates sexual morality to laws of property . |
| 27 | Just before his death in 1966 , Disney was quoted as saying : ‘ I do not believe there are any heights that can not be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true ’ . |
| 28 | She had run to the door after seeing McAllister walk up the front path , and greeted her with a wide grin , brought on by the sight of McAllister 's sailor outfit . |
| 29 | In this way the author ( somewhat naively ) avoids the anti-climax of making Roland fall victim to a Saracen sword . |
| 30 | Mrs Smith , who 's Belgian by birth , has taught herself Hungarian so she can work in Hungary to raise money — but ultimately without more funds the cost of helping Ashley stand on his own two feet may prove too high . |