Example sentences of "[conj] to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has indeed been shown for some chemicals , but the usual effect is to lower resistance to disease , rather than to make allergies more likely . |
| 2 | According to Envoy Systems ' Peter Krall , the group 's aim is to create awareness of computer-integrated telephony rather than to make standards . |
| 3 | Similarly some structures are designed to be discussed by management consultants rather than to make life easier for those who have to use the system . |
| 4 | The more fruitful course is not to promise to undertake liability in the first place ( to the extent that the law permits this ) rather than to make promises and exclude liability for their subsequent breach . |
| 5 | Their aim is not so much to alleviate the horrors of war as to make war so horrific that potential aggressors will fear to resort to it at all . |
| 6 | The major one is that the wing , had it been left there , would have snagged on the underside of the Kilcharran as it surfaced and tilted the fuselage , maybe to so acute an angle as to make access to this damned bomb difficult or impossible . ’ |
| 7 | It was a foolhardy decision : these formations arrived too late in the east to affect events there , but their transfer so weakened the German thrust in the west as to make material success in that theatre improbable . |
| 8 | Of the Scottish Daily News , the study finds that it was inadequately financed from the outset ; was poorly equipped ; so applied the principle of workers ' control as to make ‘ executive decision taking impossible if not farcical ’ ; and produced an unacceptable product . |