Example sentences of "[vb infin] make [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we should you know make it clear how we stand . |
| 2 | If the slack variable is non-basic , we can pivot to make it basic and then drop the corresponding row . |
| 3 | Those constructing future policies and principles should strive to make them exemplary in this regard , not least because of the encouragement this will give to schools to be rigorous in their own thinking . |
| 4 | They , or something like them , are admirable and important and we must strive to make them political realities , but they are not in themselves law and nothing is gained by pretending that they are law . |
| 5 | Cos if they were trying to get peasant support and erm showing the importance of peasants instead of the United Front they would 've made it public . |
| 6 | But he was very sick so er they wanted somebody to stay with him overnight at any rate so I , he was n't sleeping , and I , he said what , I said to him , what do you think made you sick ? |
| 7 | Over to this side now , erm , give me three things that you can do to make it easy t for the eye to see what er , particular number is refer w which rows is referring answer to ? |
| 8 | The presentational aspect involves all kinds of different considerations which I shall come to presently , but what they boil down to is this : what can you do to make it easier for the communicator to communicate and the audience to receive the required message — with minimum distraction ? |
| 9 | When we find this extremely difficult , there are a few things we can do to make it easier . |
| 10 | What can we do to make it easier for the potential visitor ? |
| 11 | So what can we all do to make it easier for our disabled friends to enjoy the countryside ? |
| 12 | That would appear to make it worthwhile for science to be a little more lenient with the serious UFO researchers and their data . |
| 13 | We were ecstatic as we returned to Bira with the good news , but a closer look at the grounded Sinar Surya and the motley bunch with whom we might sail made it clear that our troubles were far from over . |
| 14 | And how do you plan to make me sorry ? |
| 15 | He obviously did n't plan to make it easy for her . |
| 16 | Historic buildings would stay but need much work to make them safe , while an ‘ ugly legacy ’ of derelict property and fences require demolition , a major task . |
| 17 | Mr Bush is keen to make the renewal of MFN unconditional ; Congress would like to make it conditional on China improving its human-rights record . |
| 18 | But I should like to make it clear that the suggestion that BAT has been ‘ dumping ’ this pesticide in Kenya has not foundation of truth whatsoever . |
| 19 | I should like to make it clear from the outset that I am participating in this conference not as an expert on any aspect of the teaching of languages , but rather as someone whose primary concern is with the structure of language and , more generally , the nature of cognitive processes . |
| 20 | We would like to make it clear that this delay was not caused by any default on the part of the defendant who is charged with their murder nor by his legal advisers . |
| 21 | I have no desire to detract from Mike Broderick 's promotion , but as The Bookseller is a journal of record I would like to make it clear that it was only following my resignation that the position of group home sales director was created at Random House . |
| 22 | I should like to make it clear that the provisions of the Government Bill will provide householders with the same level of protection as that which existed under the private Bill , and they are set out fully in schedule 7 . |
| 23 | I should like to make it clear to the House that I accept full responsibility for the actions taken in this case by officials of the Home Office and by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary , who dealt with it . |
| 24 | ‘ We would like to make it clear that we will not talk to pro-British or British newspapers and we want reporters to stay away from our family home . ’ |
| 25 | Halstead will look to make it four wins in four games . |
| 26 | The long stay in the corridors must have made him forgetful , he thought . |
| 27 | In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) . |
| 28 | Is this a struggle inside Frodo 's soul , between his conscious will and his unconscious wickedness ( the sort of wickedness which might earlier have made him reluctant to hand over the Ring to Gandalf ) ? |
| 29 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |
| 30 | Even Crump himself might be better meeting his Judgement now , after a life of useful business , than later when the disturbances of retirement — already foreshadowed — would most likely have made him less of a man than he was now , less happy , less useful , perhaps even diminished , by turbulent pettiness , in the very qualities which might now ensure his redemption . |