Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] [adv] to make " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I am not here to make myself known to the police . |
2 | ‘ Yes , I see you do , ’ he agreed , ‘ and I 'm not here to make difficulties . |
3 | ‘ I 'm not here to make trouble . ’ |
4 | ‘ But I 'm not here to make judgements , only to see if you 've broken anything . |
5 | ‘ I said I was n't here to make moral judgments , that all we wanted was to understand what this project was all about and where it is leading . |
6 | ‘ Dr. Briant , let me tell you here and now that we are not here to make judgments . |
7 | Erm for what it 's worth , I 'll give you my suggestions about what we should do as far as ticket prices are concerned er , having taken in a view of the most important factor of the treasurer 's comments but also bearing in mind that we did have high recurring expenses this year , which wo n't apply in future and we 're not here to make money . |
8 | William 's grandad had a lot of friends , unless they were there only to make sure he was safely laid to rest , where he could n't get up to much more mischief . |
9 | If the performance of the 80586 and the MIPS R4000 is only off plus or minus 20% , it 's not enough to make the hassle worth it . |
10 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
11 | It is not enough to make me forget that the owl remains elsewhere . |
12 | It is n't enough to make searches ; you must deal intelligently and adequately with the replies you receive . |
13 | But it is certainly enough to make us want to persist with our exploration of this theory and to examine in some detail ( in Chapter 7 ) the various possible explanations for the effect . |
14 | PC Fishwick said : ‘ Of course it is too soon to make any judgement but we are keeping our fingers crossed that some of the crime prevention messages are getting through . ’ |
15 | It was almost enough to make him turn round and go back to Yzordderrex , revolution or no . |
16 | He inspired spite : critics called him a male Farah Fawcett , said he was pretty enough to make a convincing transvestite . |
17 | He was n't here to make jokes . |
18 | ‘ For someone who started out by stating he was not here to make judgments , you would appear to have a few already to hand , ’ he said acidly . |
19 | All the rest of us are just here to make up the numbers . ’ |