Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to make [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got together with the head of the local shopkeepers ' association to try to make shopkeepers understand how important it is not to sell solvents to young people . |
| 2 | It should be said that many of the problems which make quality control of elements of the course above subject level a challenge for modular courses are not a challenge for conventional courses only because insufficient comparability exists to make quality control a serious possibility . |
| 3 | The idea of their having a say in the running of a club appears to make officials recoil with horror . |
| 4 | You do get a lot of tension trying to make ends meet … |
| 5 | Headhunting 1960s-style tended to make consultants feel conspiratorial , shady and slightly suspect even if , like Young , they were wholly convinced of the ultimate value of executive search to a company 's efficiency and performance . |
| 6 | Dot wanted to make Gloria feel happy . |
| 7 | But those workers struggling to make ends meet on basic wages of barely more than £100 a week are likely to see things very differently . |
| 8 | It is simply the ability which a person or group has to make others do what he , she or they want them to do . |
| 9 | When Lizzie tried to make Cinderella curtsey she succeeded only in crossing the puppet 's feet , and she started to laugh ; then , laying the puppet down , she said , ‘ But of the three , you know , I think I like Buttons ; he 's so appealing . ’ |
| 10 | Her undeniable sincerity appeared to make Mike think . |
| 11 | There is further evidence to indicate that nitrogen applications on or near the surface tend to make earthworms feed and excrete their castings well below the surface . |
| 12 | GARY McAllister last night vowed to make Spurs pay for the darkest moment of Leeds ' reign as champions . |
| 13 | By JOHN EDWARDS GARY McAllister last night vowed to make Spurs pay for the darkest moment of Leeds ' reign as champions . |
| 14 | On the other hand , income support provides an income which is very low and this means many families struggle to make ends meet . |
| 15 | To people struggling to make ends meet , the rationale about ‘ expanding out of difficulties ’ was not easily understood . |
| 16 | She said : ‘ There are people going hungry , but the majority are genuine cases of people struggling to make ends meet . |
| 17 | Midfield stylist McAllister vowed to make Kinnear pay for his dig when the sides meet again in February . |
| 18 | There have been some good examples of team working , radical ideas and of getting the right people involved to make changes happen . |
| 19 | A style of drama full of ridiculous situations intended to make people laugh , sometimes used as a medium for satire . |
| 20 | In the case of global pollution , no world government exists to make polluters pay . |
| 21 | The chapter will cover hardware — the microcomputers ; software — the programs needed to make computers work effectively ; and it will provide an overview of possible applications of microcomputers for librarians and teachers working together in schools . |
| 22 | Local Management of Schools ( LMS ) under which schools are funded on the basis of pupil numbers , open enrolment which allows schools to recruit outside their immediate catchment area , and the publication of certain test and examination results combine to make schools compete with each other for pupils . |
| 23 | What were the kind of conditions of the people who w who went back in , did they go in bec because of they had , erm say large families or something like that and they had difficulty trying to make ends meet ? |
| 24 | I was using the very fast 12-shot per roll film which estate agents use to make houses look good in the rain . |
| 25 | Third , a number of factors combined to make CP finance relatively cheap in relation to bank finance . |
| 26 | In the comedies that expose hypocrisy ( Malvolio in Twelfth Night , Parolles in All 's Well that Ends Weld , we typically see the hypocrite through the eyes of the group of people exposing him — Sir Toby , Maria , and company ; the soldiers trying to make Bertram see his favourite 's falseness . |
| 27 | My mother had a tough time trying to make ends meet . |
| 28 | But if the smell of your skin scent fails to make women swoon , there is hope . |
| 29 | As it would put it , the Liberal Democratic party claims to make people face up to hard decisions by increasing pricing and taxes . |