Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] to make [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has been pointed out " the purpose of many opposition amendments is not to make the Bill more generally acceptable but to make the Government less generally acceptable . " |
| 2 | Even if we make the comparison with the earlier part of the twentieth century when people were beginning to live longer , the economic conditions of family life were so different as to make a decision to take an old person into one 's home , if they could not maintain themselves , a very different decision from its equivalent today . |
| 3 | If that sounds confusing , it can be illustrated simply ; the singular number of the English noun is unmarked with respect to the plural , since the singular form is basic and to make the plural you have to add a suffix . |
| 4 | Now that was true until the late sixties early seventies and of course er you find there the election to the o to the White House of one Richard Milhous Nixon , conservative Republican er a man who was not above hiring gangsters and burglars to do his work for him , and this produced a reaction and if you read the , the presidential literature of the nineteen seventies you will find the opposite , you will find er political scientists , all American , er demanding reforms of the American system , not to make the president more powerful but to make the president less powerful . |
| 5 | Now , it may or not me noticeable if it 's a minor alteration in the surface geometry then it may be so slight as to make no difference in the way it performs so if , for example , it 's an enzyme it may not affect it at all . |
| 6 | Or — another possibility — the curvature might be so great as to make the Universe close back on itself . |
| 7 | ‘ People have been given every chance to make payment in full or to make an arrangement to pay , but it seems as though there is a hard core who do not want to pay . ’ |
| 8 | More importantly , with so many instructions to follow , it 's easy to miss one or to make a mistake . |
| 9 | If due account is taken of the present state of the law in regard to mortgages and choses in action , it is apparent that to make a distinction in the case of land would be to make just such an exception . |
| 10 | They therefore faced no option other than to make a go of the business . |
| 11 | Nottinghamshire originally sought a prohibited steps order to keep the perpetrator away from the family home , but was turned down by the High Court which said it had no option other than to make a residence order . |
| 12 | When after a moment it had not moved , I resorted to the car horn , but this had no effect other than to make the creature commence pecking at something on the ground . |
| 13 | Dean Rusk declined to discuss it other than to make the observation that |
| 14 | Yesterday 's initial tour selection is so strong as to make no difference . |
| 15 | His shows are serious and grown-up , by his lights , and they certainly have storylines so odd as to make The Ring look like a sit-com . |