Example sentences of "[noun sg] to make them [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great public buildings were stuccoed with gypsum to make them dazzle in the bright sea-light . |
| 2 | Hospital nurses opposing a plan to make them wear their own clothes for work have put off a decision to take action in protest . |
| 3 | ‘ All of them are given a warm Irish welcome to make them feel at home . ’ |
| 4 | Ironically , the government really has been true to its policy of noninterference in the ‘ free market ’ where women 's opportunities are concerned , though in other areas it has often recognised the paradox that non-interventionist policies require intervention to make them work . |
| 5 | The voting-oriented positive approaches to redistribution , given the comments above , may seem on stronger ground in explaining policy in that they largely rely on a narrow self-interest motive to make them tick . |
| 6 | Police say a paediatrician at the hospital gave the boys medication to make them vomit , and they were kept in hospital overnight for observation . |
| 7 | Mrs Bottomley is convinced the Tory victory provides the opportunity to entrench the reforms — and to give doctors , nurses and managers the confidence to make them work . |
| 8 | No , there had never really been anything in Mr McCloy 's behaviour to make them believe he was n't a man of integrity . |
| 9 | A case of forcing one set of data into mother 's mould to make them look alike ? |
| 10 | Plungers require 75mm ( 3in ) or so of water in the sink to make them work . |
| 11 | He predicted that in future the technique would be used to make subtle change to politicians ' facial features in print and on television to make them appear more attractive . |
| 12 | And in all this , Joseph had learnt that Bligh 's proven and later much copied method of keeping off sickness , especially the scurvy , was to force fruit on his crew : fruit and exercise , for which purpose he carried a fiddler to make them dance every day . |
| 13 | It was all a smokescreen to make them believe that the Clarion Call had been lost at sea . |
| 14 | Yeah … if there was a pill to make them take it … |
| 15 | If people have been wavering about giving us information this might just be the thing to make them come forward |
| 16 | Apply gentle pressure to make them appear more extreme . |
| 17 | The pads often require pressure to make them work . |
| 18 | What else then what other methods do we have besides having eye contact what else might we do to involve the audience to make them feel involved ? |
| 19 | There is no light and shade and this way of using the pointes has nothing to do with giving a finishing touch to such dances as those fur Petipa 's Aurora and the Six Fairies in The Sleeping Beauty to make them seem lighter than air . |
| 20 | Many Suffolk horsemen , when occasionally they took their horses to Ipswich market , rose very early in the morning — three o'clock , or even earlier — to put the finishing touches to harness they had perhaps oiled the night before , and to paint the horses ' hoofs with harness oil to make them look smart . |
| 21 | Not for the first time , she wishes she had her sister 's confidence with men , her way of saying just the right thing in the right way to make them laugh , or listen , or love . |
| 22 | But I seem to have hit on a compromise , a way to make them feel they still have a stake in the treasure , but in addition an enhancement of their family 's reputation . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Sales companies in America and Ireland go out of their way to make them feel at home . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's the way to make them learn , Miss Honey , ’ she said . |
| 25 | they just need a little push to make them go one way or the other so |
| 26 | In recent years , however , there has been a move towards more intensive farming : altering the lambing season so they are born at different times of the year ; bringing lambs indoors and using special feed to make them grow bigger . |
| 27 | Is it ethical for man to interfere with the genetic constitution and physiological functions of living organisms , especially of man and the higher animals , in order to make them perform in a different way ? |
| 28 | ’ Thus if the goods require anything to be done to them in order for them to be ready for delivery or in order to make them comply with the contract , they will not be in a deliverable state . |
| 29 | The they 're never sort of given feeble excuses , we are erm very truthful with them , i in order to make them understand that , you know , there are limitations erm within our jobs as well , cos a lot of people expect things , and erm you may promise them , well other people may promise them , and it 's not delivered then of course it 's sort of them and us , and we , we try to dispel that idea , it 's not them |
| 30 | However , they have told me recently that , when I was about nine or ten , they thought me a bully because I would surreptitiously pinch them or pull their hair in order to keep them in line — that is , in order to make them behave as my parents would have wished them to . |