Example sentences of "[v-ing] to make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People may not remember whatever detailed analysis was developed for them as schoolchildren , but certain models or ‘ general sketches ’ … do remain , and they inform everyday thinking closely , especially as they are exercised over and again by politicians and the media seeking to make public sense of current events . |
| 2 | The Minister will recall that during the first Tory recession , Ministers claimed that making many people redundant was a price worth paying to make British industry leaner and fitter . |
| 3 | And he goes on : ‘ No one is expecting to make big money — all players would ask is to be treated reasonably in line with what they achieve . ’ |
| 4 | The Satellite itself proved to be the most successful British circuit for some time and was the clearest indication yet of an ever strengthening base of players beginning to make international progress . |
| 5 | Nicol arrives aiming to make instant impact for Scotland |
| 6 | Reverting again to the 11+ , it would have been possible to respond to the results of the tests by saying , ‘ boys are less able at age 11 — they are failing to make proper use of their primary school education ’ or , as in fact happened , by removing the responsibility from individual boys and situating it elsewhere , in this instance in biology . |
| 7 | The firm also says it is continuing to make steady progress on Iceberg , and that it expects to enter the internal beta test portion of the programme in July or August , and hopes to ship production units a year late , in the fourth quarter of this year . |
| 8 | It had , at first , seemed totally unlikely that this bunch of ugly Northern oiks would ever make it in America , but they 're starting to make perfect sense . |
| 9 | What , some of those in the factory asked Mr Lilley , was the government doing to make sure CSE 's parent company Trafalgar House will win the contract ? |
| 10 | Any teacher is constantly having to make difficult value judgements . |
| 11 | The success of the compact disc is threatening to make other music formats obsolete . |
| 12 | Social services authorities will be expected to make clear in their community care plans what steps they will be taking to make increased use of non-statutory service providers or , where such providers are not currently available , how they propose to stimulate such activity . |
| 13 | ( h ) The accused may commit the s.2(1) ( b ) offence either by intending to make permanent default of his own liability or intending to let another make permanent default , but the liability must be his own : Attewell-Hughes , above . |
| 14 | ‘ He was only tryin' to make polite conversation with you about the keyboards . |
| 15 | This was made very clear to me early in my fieldwork when I offended a neighbour by trying to make explicit return of food that had been given to my wife and me . |
| 16 | Reaumur was concerned also with trying to make cast iron less brittle . |
| 17 | Weller is trying to make political idealism glamorous by linking it with being a stylist , and validate being a stylist by aligning it with political ideals . |
| 18 | Yet I listen to the television and Virginia Bottomley with th within er hours of the r the news breaking in trying to make political capital out of , threatening to come to inspect inspected children homes . |
| 19 | Those members of the Independent Television Authority and its successor , the Independent Broadcasting Authority , who have been most interventionist have devoted their energies to trying to make commercial television more like the non-commercial BBC . |
| 20 | Even though you are trying to make positive stroke , do n't try to hit it hard . |
| 21 | A senior source told The People last night : ‘ We now recognise our future lies in quality , not trying to make mass programming with a popular appeal . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 're trying to make excessive profit . ’ |
| 23 | Serums are another good styling aid , helping to make frizzy hair smooth and more manageable . |