Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to make the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had not taken the step of demanding political change to make the decisions which affected their lives a matter of debate and consent before they were taken . |
| 2 | But the news overshadowed Labour attempts to make the economy the centrepiece of their conference attacks on the government . |
| 3 | Democratic Left MEP , Des Geraghty , says he will petition the European Parliament to make the Eire Government act . |
| 4 | His outline programme included a 100-day package to curb inflation , a declared intention to make the forint into a convertible currency ( but without a specified target date ) , and a commitment to land reforms , as demanded by the Smallholders who had campaigned on the single issue of returning farmland to its pre-1947 owners ; agriculture was to become primarily based on private ownership , with encouragement for family farms and voluntary co-operatives , although a limited number of state farms would also remain in existence . |
| 5 | I have found when mixing cement , sand and water , that they need the help of a softening agent to make the mortar much more malleable . |
| 6 | Every event , dressing , meal-times and so on , must be a sequence of carefully organised activities to make the process easier , indeed , manageable at all . |
| 7 | Some miners wanted to take up this challenge , but there was not sufficient determined popular support to make the break with a more conventional trade union practice . |
| 8 | The Jewish law required all faithful Jews to make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem three times a year for three different feasts : |
| 9 | He kept the turn going to the right , using the drag of the extended reverser to make the turn easier . |
| 10 | teachers striving to improve the results of national curriculum assessments and public examinations to make the school attractive to parents ; and |
| 11 | I like to put a pale colour behind a darkish one to make the dark colour stand out more and a dark colour dropped in just at one point behind a light colour to make the paleness improve . |
| 12 | In addition , the consortium has established a Bureau in Macro-Economic Modelling to make the variuos models available to other researchers . |
| 13 | The text retrieval system , like many other systems throughout the authority , suffers from the absence of the political , managerial and cultural will to make the system work at its most cost effective . |
| 14 | Instead of the stitch being transferred completely , leaving an empty needle to make the lace ‘ hole ’ , the stitch is only partially transferred . |
| 15 | As these are decorations and not toys , you can use glass or pearl-headed pins to make the halo , either pushing them right into the head like a wreath , or half-way in so that the halo stands away from the head . |
| 16 | The connections to the cistern are straightforward : the ballvalve is connected via a tap connector , which has a small fibre or rubber washer to make the seal ( a bent tap connector is often best for this job ) ; the cold feeds are connected to the tank connectors with compression joints and must fall gently away from the cistern to avoid airlocks ; the overflow pipe can be copper or plastic ( with a plastic tank connector ) and should be installed with a fall of at least 1 in 10 from the cistern . |
| 17 | It became an aloof , lonely personal fight to make the grade . |
| 18 | So would he call in extra help to make the coffin ? |
| 19 | Dickens has been very clever to intertwine all these aspects and ideas , and to make them all relate to each other , in the one central character , Pip , and the other central characters around Pip are basically just extra ingredients to make the plot work . |
| 20 | In serious songs , when her voice is not working , there is not enough personal extraordinariness to make the lack seem unimportant . |
| 21 | Add sufficient extra flour to make the dough manageable , then knead it thoroughly for about 10min , until smooth and shiny . |
| 22 | The second method is for central planning to make the master plan and then to hand over the outlines of a sub-plan to the departments who fill in the details of their own sub-plan . |
| 23 | I must emphasise that the vowels and are not included in the set of English phonemes but are simply additional symbols to make the writing and reading of transcription easier . |
| 24 | The club paid £100,000 in February , and must pay an additional £800,000 to make the transfer permanent . |
| 25 | There is little justification for assuming the uncertain earlier attribution of the Shipman 's Tale to be meaningful and its final attribution to be merely a convenient slot in which Chaucer parked his tale without even bothering to make a few simple revisions to make the tale fit its new narrator . |
| 26 | We had quite a simple shot to make the green , and Lee says to me , ‘ Willie , I 'm only interested in getting to the middle of the green . ’ |
| 27 | He says this the perfect railway to make the film . |
| 28 | Mr. Browne referred to the trend in the developed world to make the polluter pay , but Mr. Malone stressed that the west could not deny developing countries who could n't afford the cost of cleaning up the growth which they had enjoyed . |
| 29 | In the case of the latter , the last straw in Wilson 's continuing agitation and " one of the greatest blunders the union ever made " , thought Walter Runciman , " was the despotic effort to make the officers and engineers join a union . |
| 30 | Indeed parallel with developments in the methodology of the survey , there has been a similar effort to make the interview a much more standardised , methodical and effective instrument of social inquiry . |