Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] make the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Much of Western psychotherapy draws , in various forms , on the catharsis model , whereby it is held as necessary for emotional health to come to terms with the repressed anger that is assumed to be inside the individual , and techniques are developed to make the individual confront these in a dramatic form .
2 Much of the marshland surrounding the broads and rivers has been drained to make the land available for agricultural use .
3 She seems to favour not only schemes that guarantee groups like blacks access to fair voting procedures , but also ones that are skewed to make the achievement of ‘ group ’ political goals more likely .
4 The brackets are not necessary , they have been included to make the example easier to follow .
5 The brackets are not necessary , they have been included to make the example easier to follow .
6 The brackets are not necessary , they have been included to make the example easier to follow .
7 All fifteen of the unit 's employees are expected to make the shift .
8 Growing unemployment , council spending cuts , shrinking government grants and smaller corporate donations are expected to make the situation worse next year .
9 Which Mortgage has been designed to make the job of finding the right mortgage for your particular needs as easy as possible .
10 The butcher serves the preparation of flesh , bones and tzampa , The tzampa has been added to make the mixture more palatable , for it is a bad omen if anything is left uneaten .
11 The difference between the early days and 1976 was that cars were going a lot faster — Lauda himself had been the first to break the magical seven-minute lap in 1975 — and that very little had been done to make the track safer .
12 Given the wide scope of the charge to CGT , a large number of exemptions from this tax bite are granted to make the system fair and workable , A company may be able to avoid CGT liability even though it has made gains of a capital nature , by means of various reliefs and allowances .
13 They 're used to make the goal .
14 If you 're determined to make the marriage work from the start , it will endure anyway .
15 The work will examine the way : familiar narratives are used to make the programme understandable and significant ; decisions are made over what should be treated as factual ; competing claims about facts are assessed .
16 In recent years , expert system shells have been produced to make the job of building an expert system quicker , easier and less costly .
17 Firstly , overstatement has been used to make the point .
18 It has supplied a with equipment , Its engineers believe may have been used to make the supergun .
19 Once again , we are making it clear to the Minister and putting it firmly on record that , in its present form , the Bill does nothing to make it likely that the Government 's words , which have been employed to make the Bill more politically acceptable in Scotland , will be translated into reality .
20 to consult the landed and trading interest of the nation , by lessening its incumbrances and public debts , and putting them in a method of being paid off in a few years ; which could not have been done , unless a way had been found to make the Annuities for long terms redeemable ; which had been happily effected by the South-Sea Scheme , without a breach of parliamentary faith .
21 ISC is understood to have small contracts in each of these territories but further ‘ phantom ’ contracts are believed to have been invented to make the company seem more successful than it was .
22 Video hire stores say if the movie is a money spinner in the cinema the general video release could well be delayed making the sale of pirate tapes particularly lucrative .
23 While the centre rectangle has the ‘ grain' in-line with the edges , each of the triangles which will be joined to make the head and foot will have their ‘ grain' running at right angles ( and parallel to ) the edges .
24 Ultimately , the machine layout or interface design may be modified to make the operating instructions easier to follow .
25 If that spark is to grow , wood must be added to make the flame grow bigger .
26 He stared out of his constricting net of anxieties and fears at this clean , smooth , well-intentioned boy , and wondered why he should be expected to make the effort to answer him at all .
27 Although all sets and costumes were designed in colour , a lot of ingenuity needed to be applied to make the sets visually more interesting to the viewers ; compensating them for only seeing everything in monochrome and through a slightly muzzy 405 line picture .
28 This can be either broad , with the full expression of human feeling common only to the Labour movement , or it may be narrow , niggardly and mean with only the objective of shirking responsibility , and never carrying out in the spirit of those laws work which could be applied to make the conditions of the working people easier , and the lives of their children brighter and better .
29 Everything will be done to make the occasion as ‘ normal ’ as possible .
30 Please could you look into this and see what can be done to make the lights visible again .
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