Example sentences of "[noun] to make people [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At worst , it is placebo politics , selling a deceit to make people feel better . |
| 2 | Mr Collin said the threat of prison could be the crucial reminder to make people pay . |
| 3 | Richard Collin , director of central services , said the threat of prison could be the crucial reminder to make people pay . |
| 4 | I have this great in-built desire to make people suffer . |
| 5 | I 'm only in this business to make people laugh . |
| 6 | You have to y y y you have to promote the product to make people buy it . |
| 7 | We all know packaging is often superfluous … an excess to make people buy the product rather than just wrap it up and that must be recovered … so we want the industry to use minimum packaging and we want the industry to come forward with ideas on that — if they do n't then we 'll legislate . |
| 8 | JACK Dee had tried for a while to make people laugh with a totally put-on chirpy delivery . |
| 9 | I use less crude means to make people do what I want . ’ |
| 10 | Today in Britain , Michael is looking for ways to make people take out private insurance against all sorts of possibilities . |
| 11 | It is like going into Europe — the important thing is by reiteration to make people think , whether they are for it or against it , that it is inevitable ’ . |
| 12 | Far from being a romantic reaction against science , this represents an effort to make people recognize that the scientific concepts which permeate our society have implications far beyond the immediate domain of their technical application , and that they are rooted in seemingly more primitive modes of thought such as story-telling . |
| 13 | He knew the way to make people do what you wanted was to make them think it was their idea . |
| 14 | Did you stop to think that there is more than enough going on in Cambodia to make people reflect pretty carefully about participating in the election at all — and that the fact that 4.7m of them registered ( for which they received nothing whatsoever in material terms ) might just suggest that they really would like to exercise the vote ? |
| 15 | That wretched obsession with time which was a hallmark of my own age had not yet set in ; there were not even railway timetables to make people conform to the clock . |