Example sentences of "[be] to make a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The depth of the recession facing Germany means that the boom must fall soon , and then about the only way for Siemens to save the company will be to make a major acquisition that finally puts it onto the world stage . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 3 | Although a clash with the USSR was not considered a serious possibility until the late 1950s at the earliest , the British defence chiefs were arguing from April 1946 that the West 's ultimate aim should be to make a successful stand against a Soviet offensive as far to the east in Europe as practicable . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm just coming , ’ called Lydia , thinking how amusing it would be to make a big splash and drowning noises , but even she knew that this would not be the action of a nice woman . |
| 5 | The likeliest outcome would be to make a bureaucratic , clumsily managed conglomerate even more bureaucratic and more clumsy . |
| 6 | These products and services are purchased in order that some specific organisational objective may be achieved , whether it be to make a new product , hold greater stocks , improve service and quality , or increase profitability . |
| 7 | The best way to explain this is to make a simple experiment . |
| 8 | MICHAEL Grade , head of Channel 4 , is to make a concerted attack on the movie world supremacy of television presenter Barry Norman . |
| 9 | The first need in such cases is to make a convincing case for the importance of the house , not only in architectural terms , but as the centrepiece of the park landscape . |
| 10 | Today , the gap between treasure hunters and archaeologists is considerable , and there is little possibility of confusing the two : the main aim of the treasure hunter is to make a financial gain from what is found , whereas the main aim of the archaeologist is to investigate the past . |
| 11 | Their function now is to make a good job of delivering the railway services that the PTEs and sectors want to buy from them . |
| 12 | Mr Stern 's costings tell him it is not worth paying more than £750/acre for bare arable land if he is to make a reasonable living . |
| 13 | And to be European in southern England , is to make a political statement against Thatcherism , philistinism , and English insularity . |
| 14 | It appears unlikely the A N C is to make a political issue out of the attorney general 's decision to put Mrs Mandela on trial . |
| 15 | This is to make a long , hard , thoughtful , and imaginative campaign sound simple , which it was n't . |
| 16 | In practice it is very difficult to decide what is representative ; perhaps the best method is to make a general study of several sections from the same sequence before proceeding to detailed description and analysis . |
| 17 | The best we can do is to make a close study of code switching and hope that it will provide an overall framework for understanding how the two perceived varieties , Creole and English , interact in conversation . |
| 18 | A useful method of detecting changes in the wind direction is to make a mental note of the point on the shore towards which you are sailing and use this as a reference point . |
| 19 | The fall is real enough ( remembering my earlier distinction between real and literal , p. 36 ) , and to take out the story of Adam and Eve is to make a terrible hole in the gospel . |
| 20 | This is to make a useful methodological standpoint within sociology into a dogmatic philosophy of history , and it leads to intellectual confusion , ethical relativism and nihilism by allowing no role to rational scientific work . |
| 21 | The aim of this project is to make a substantial contribution to the sparse literature on the household sector in China during the reform period of the 1980s . |
| 22 | To say this is , it should be noted , is to make a theological point : since it is held that God is the creator , so that what is natural , and what is also found to be the case , must accord with what is God 's intention . |
| 23 | Thus , an idea on a social form of activity must be related to what is already known in sociology if our research is to make a genuine contribution to sociological knowledge . |
| 24 | IN A MOVE bound to both surprise and delight Didcot-based Castle , 5029 ‘ Nunney Castle ’ is to make a three-month visit to the East Lancs-Railway at Bury . |
| 25 | That is , they do this in every case except that of an exorcism ritual where the point is to make a deliberate display of violence and aggression , in the sense of ‘ intentionally causing suffering to another being ’ , to frighten the predatory spirits . |
| 26 | Generous merchants are rare beasts in the literature of any age , and to see this merchant 's generosity as entirely foolish , or purely representative of commercial self-interest , is to make a severe assumption . |
| 27 | For to say that ‘ God exists ’ is to make a metaphysical utterance which can not be either true or false . |
| 28 | A second approach is to make a detailed study of people 's language practices . |
| 29 | On Humberside , Sandtoft has recently announced that it is to make a machine-pressed plain tile for the first time . |
| 30 | One possibility is to make a short section of DNA or RNA that can bind to a particular region of viral genetic material to form a double-stranded complex , just like the familiar double helix of cellular DNA . |