Example sentences of "[noun] to make [noun pl] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | India could develop test-tube fusion cells , using them as a source of neutrons to make weapons grade materials , breaking out of the stranglehold that the USA has held them in since severance of nuclear ties following the Pokran nuclear test in 1974 ; they set to work at once before the US classifies it as secret and corners the world market on the essential materials . |
| 2 | She is forced to buy things from charity shops to make ends meet . |
| 3 | On the ground and first floors , products were displayed in a more domesticated , less austere atmosphere than in London with a deliberate attempt to make customers feel that they were shopping in a private house from an earlier century . |
| 4 | Its attempt to make farmers pay for the pollution they caused had been overturned by the environmentally primitive MAFF . |
| 5 | Company sick pay , canteens shared with managers and regular company-provided medical check-ups are all part of an attempt to make workers identify with their company . |
| 6 | Many were forced to take part-time jobs or handouts from parents to make ends meet . |
| 7 | Is there not even something rather arrogant about the assumption that the human mind and capacity to make things supply the only proper model for conceiving of a supreme reality ? |
| 8 | If kept in tune such facilities as memory , flexibility and capacity to make decisions do not easily decline . |
| 9 | Movement makes its proper effect when the choreographer has selected and co-ordinated appropriate movements to make sentences flow from one to another with such style , quality and expression that the design makes sense . |
| 10 | There are many aids to make plots look more professional : devices for lettering , for drawing smooth curves , for stippling and cross-hatching areas with different patterns . |
| 11 | ‘ We know there will be severe practical difficulties but it is up to farmers and auctioneers to make things work . |
| 12 | My brother Charlie 's left 'ome an' sister Mary 's married an' Mum 'as to go out cleaning the fish an' chip shop to make ends meet . ’ |
| 13 | His presence transcends our best efforts to make relationships work . |
| 14 | Eric Blyth says the best option is to use the technology along with efforts to make children want to be in school . |
| 15 | Both seemed to lack the facility to make things look right . |
| 16 | They have to struggle desperately every day to make ends meet . |
| 17 | ‘ I love driving but I was doing this 14 or 15 hours a day to make ends meet . |
| 18 | Then , credit is seen as a necessity ( Appendix II ; section 1 ) : ‘ You buy on credit to make ends meet … . ’ , ‘ none of us would have things if it was n't for catalogues ’ , ‘ … when you want to replace anything you are forced to use HP because you do n't have the cash ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ I think you will , Miss Honey , because I have to use your first name to make things rhyme and that 's why I do n't want to say it . ’ |
| 20 | We become martyrs to make others feel guilty . |
| 21 | ‘ And I know of one Darlington school which is running a lottery to make ends meet . |
| 22 | Father had given up tobacco and alcohol to send me £2 15s ( Pounds 2.75 ) a week to make ends meet . |
| 23 | Hastings the man to make Lions roar |
| 24 | Ecologists have been critical of the government 's failure to introduce planned legislation to make farmers seek approval from local authorities before grubbing out a hedge . |
| 25 | Join a consumers group and lobby for government legislation to make manufacturers label their products fully and accurately . |
| 26 | Acton and Shepherd 's Bush , he said , were a long way from Islington but it had not needed the history and memory of Risinghill and William Tyndale to make headteachers alert to the damaging way in which matters of discipline , race , criminality and parental disquiet could be brought together into presentations of hot and not always accurate news . |
| 27 | Some of her friends bought cushions and pictures and even , extravagantly , curtains , in an effort to make rooms look homely , and though she liked the results , she viewed the aim with contempt . |
| 28 | Women are up well before dawn and may have only five or six hours sleep a night in the effort to make ends meet . |
| 29 | ‘ Enjoying banter with the regulars and making a special effort to make newcomers feel welcome is a tough job when the hours may be 11am to 11pm . |
| 30 | Measures to make deputies reveal more personal financial details , to avoid scandals that have dogged the Socialist Party for several years , brought jeers from the opposition . |