Example sentences of "[pers pn] be to make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was to make good in one calendar year , or he 'd cut off my allowance . |
| 2 | While there are good ideas tumbling from your head , you 'll need to slow them down if you are to make any use of them . |
| 3 | All I ask of you is to make one phone call to firm up a social event , and you ca n't even get that together ! ’ |
| 4 | Freeman ( 1984 ) has suggested that some of her research was not as thorough as it should have been if she was to make such claims , and even that her desire to reach the conclusions that she did made her see things as she wished to see them , rather than as they actually were ( see Shipman 1988 ) . |
| 5 | Erm Nick has obviously talked about the er , the phasing of the estate erm , just to point out that the reason for it , perhaps seeming a bit of long drawn out er affair , it 's , it 's a , a minimum time as far as erm , all the people who have been negotiating feel it 's achievable in if we are to make sure that the estate does n't remain a building site as as a as a total entity fo , at any time , so this site here will not commence until this site is completed so that there will be some er , rest bite for the bungalow residents and of course , somewhere to park their cars in the in the interim . |
| 6 | Surely complete environmental audits from ‘ cradle to grave ’ are essential if we are to make rational choices of energy systems . |
| 7 | If we are to make further progress with our EC neighbours , surely we need to build on sure foundations . |
| 8 | If we are to make any further progress , then , we must now abandon the assumption that the practice of the social sciences must conform to our existing philosophical intuitions , and instead consider seriously the possibility that we might be able to develop a better theory of social explanation by way of examining the successful practice of the social sciences . |
| 9 | Resisting them is essential if we are to make any advance with our own life-respecting alternatives . |
| 10 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 11 | Companies now need to ensure much greater co-operation between their operating departments and their accounting function if they are to make accurate reports properly to Customs . |
| 12 | Delamont ( 1980 ) in her case-study of a comprehensive school discovered that ‘ the more teachers tried to make the lesson material relevant and immediate to the pupils , the more likely they were to make sexist assumptions and remarks ’ ( p. 54 ) . |
| 13 | But the first thing that 's the first thing to bear in mind , the first thing to bear in mind of course is had our previous proposals in other years been accepted Mr Mayor we would need it as it were to make these cuts from this year . |
| 14 | If it is to make good on Mr Bush 's hope that it may be possible to ‘ settle the conflicts that divide the Arabs from Israel ’ , it will have to convince the Israelis that they can be secure even shorn of the occupied territories . |
| 15 | The Pratt Green Trust seeks to represent the interests of the churches in this area , but needs wider support from the Church if it is to make much progress . |
| 16 | ‘ As I said after the accidents at Clapham and Purley , my job as I see it is to make sure that we implement all the recommendations . ’ |
| 17 | While they argue , those whose task it is to make sure the troops will be there on the day have to get on with more practical jobs . |
| 18 | I have sat with her for hours spooning broth into her and a tedious business it is to make sure any of it goes down . |
| 19 | The obvious problem with information about credit is that , the more people need it ( that is , the groups shown above as most ill-informed about credit , and most likely to use unnecessarily high-cost credit ) the more difficult it is to make sure it reaches them . |
| 20 | The maintainers are those people whose job it is to make sure that the functionality , performance , documentation and quality of the software are appropriate to its purpose . |
| 21 | Teacher support groups are increasingly being set up to provide the opportunity for greater honesty , and it can be less threatening for people who feel isolated to join one of these than it is to make individual overtures within their own staffroom . |
| 22 | Below a certain height it may be a hopeless situation , but even where there is enough height for a recovery , you can imagine how hard it is to make that movement forward unless you have practised stalls and incipient spins until the movements are well drilled . |
| 23 | The profession will have to take positive steps if it is to make any progress in bridging the expectation gap . |
| 24 | Do you know know difficult it is to make this thing go slowly ? ’ |
| 25 | This may have been for meals during the day while living elsewhere , or perhaps it was to make existing accommodation there more adequate for his use . |
| 26 | I once saw a woman whose job it was to make small bar magnets from steel blanks about two inches long . |
| 27 | I did have a gaoler , though — a horrible valet called Hicks , whose job it was to make sure I did n't mix with anyone outside the family . |
| 28 | It was to make sure we did n't run away . |
| 29 | Owen suspected that it was to make sure that nobody fell asleep . |
| 30 | If there was one fixed rule in her life , it was to make sure that she had a regular eight hours ' sleep every night . |