Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] to make them [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so far as history aspires to meaning , it is doomed to select regions , periods , groups of men and individuals in these groups and to make them stand out , as discontinuous figures , against a continuity barely good enough to be used as a backdrop . |
| 2 | And it 's really to make people to attract peoples ' attention and to make them think about these issues . |
| 3 | Many thought that training was a technique by the government to take people off the unemployment register or to make them feel that because they were ‘ trainees ’ they were not therefore ‘ unemployed ’ . |
| 4 | The idea that something so apparently soft and harmless has pain-inflicting daggers on the ends of the feet is enough to disturb certain infants and to make them distrust the approaches of all felines . |
| 5 | Simply to apply findings , without regard to their particular conditions of validity , is to impose prescribed patterns of behaviour on learners as if they were subjects rather than people and to make them submit to solutions which correspond to problems other than their own . |
| 6 | If our propaganda has failed , it has failed because we have been unable to arouse the British people in such a way as to make them feel that the cause of Republican Spain was their cause in such a measure that they would take every risk , even the risk of war to make the Republican cause in Spain prevail . |
| 7 | The main aim of the course was to help women overcome their feelings of inadequacy and to make them realize that they were equally capable of becoming community leaders . |