Example sentences of "[vb pp] make the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It may not be cheap , but it offers the best of diesel driving for those , perhaps , who might not have considered making the switch before .
2 The day before we were going to fly we were putting the airplane together — it was a Sunday — and we found out that we had forgotten to make the flanges that held the tailpipe to the airplane .
3 Once the snow has melted the Caimgorm looks unsightly — the chairlift pylons scatter the mountainside and litter dropped makes the slopes very dirty .
4 About 300 metres of each , I 've torn to make the covers so far but I 'm still doing it because each one has to be the right size and colour-coded by room .
5 Likewise , South Metropolitan cars were permitted to make the journey to Hendon Works over L.C.C .
6 Ultimately , the machine layout or interface design may be modified to make the operating instructions easier to follow .
7 In the 1960s it was modified to make the House of Czech Children for the Pioneers .
8 At one stage he was expected to make the breakthrough to mainstream popularity .
9 Families of serfs were forced by Chilperic to accompany the princess ; some hanged themselves to avoid going ; people of good birth were also expected to make the journey , and then to stay in Spain ; as a result they made their wills , reckoning themselves to be as good as dead .
10 The Chancellor Norman Lamont is expected to make the battle against unemployment a priority in his budget to be announced next month .
11 Kings Fountain , a creditable runner-up to Remittance Man on his seasonal reappearance at Wincanton , is expected to make the line-up though some of trainer Kim Bailey 's Lambourn string have been coughing .
12 Tony Scullion , though , is expected to make the starting line-up but Seamus Downey and Collie McGurk are out of the reckoning .
13 Growing unemployment , council spending cuts , shrinking government grants and smaller corporate donations are expected to make the situation worse next year .
14 He stared out of his constricting net of anxieties and fears at this clean , smooth , well-intentioned boy , and wondered why he should be expected to make the effort to answer him at all .
15 All fifteen of the unit 's employees are expected to make the shift .
16 The butcher serves the preparation of flesh , bones and tzampa , The tzampa has been added to make the mixture more palatable , for it is a bad omen if anything is left uneaten .
17 At the moment the beetle squirts the liquid out of its tail , an anti-inhibitor is added to make the mixture explosive once again .
18 Sizing is added to make the paper less absorbent .
19 If that spark is to grow , wood must be added to make the flame grow bigger .
20 On the NHS changes , he said he would support the legislation because it was designed to make the service more effective and efficient .
21 Yet we can find evidence of LEAs taking their responsibilities under the Act for involving parents very seriously , presenting information and reports in ways designed to make the assessment meaningful and accessible to parents .
22 ‘ They were improvements designed to make the building 100pc perfect , but which we could take out to cut the £4.5m estimate back and still maintain safety , ’ said Mr Buxton .
23 She lectures extensively on maps and the collections of NLS in particular as well as promoting a very active outreach programme designed to make the Map Library and its contents better known throughout Scotland .
24 Yesterday David McGibbon , Grampian Holding 's group finance director , said that the closure was designed to make the company more efficient in the face of European competition .
25 Shops mainly concentrate on environmental lighting which is cleverly designed to make the environs and merchandise attractive visually , often with extra lighting at service points and cash tills .
26 IBM Corp last week took its first step towards saving the AS/400 from going the way of the mainframe when it accompanied the new F models with a string of software offerings and initiatives designed to make the machine sit more comfortably as a database server in an open systems environment .
27 It was designed to make the audience part of the show .
28 At the same time as these theories were being explored in the world of school — theories designed to make the pupil the equal of the teacher — the concept of equality was beginning to have a powerful effect on education in a more overtly political sense .
29 Since there is little potential for the development of new recreation sites in the Shing Mun Country Park , Jim suggests that a management strategy designed to make the distribution of visitors between sites more equable would be appropriate to minimise damage and especially to protect those sites which are currently undergoing excessive damage .
30 ShapeShifter is a very sophisticated program designed to make the task of converting files from one archive format to another much easier .
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