Example sentences of "[pers pn] be to make a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she is severely disturbed emotionally , above the level normally expected in bereavement , and if she can not sleep , he may prescribe tranquillisers and a night sedative ; but this will usually be only for a limited period to help her over a particularly bad patch , as he will not want her to become addicted to these drugs , which if taken for too long may delay the normal grieving process which she will need to experience if she is to make a satisfactory recovery . |
| 2 | Most doctors are fairly unshockable , and they will need all the facts if they are to make a proper diagnosis . |
| 3 | On Humberside , Sandtoft has recently announced that it is to make a machine-pressed plain tile for the first time . |
| 4 | The terms ‘ adequate ’ and ‘ wellbeing ’ , not to mention ‘ standard of living ’ and even ‘ medical care ’ , are purely subjective : to prescribe a ‘ standard adequate for wellbeing ’ is not to interpret a rule ; it is to make an arbitrary decision , and an arbitrary decision about the compulsion to be exerted upon the members of a society . |
| 5 | But when I wrote it , nobody had realized anywhere in the world how unbelievably expensive it is to make an agreeable modern city , from managing traffic and removing rubbish to providing better education , housing and transport . |
| 6 | In my view it is clear that the party is very much in search of a leader , very anxious , if it is to make an adequate showing at the next general election , over the fact that it needs a symbol of more meaning to the mass electorate than Mr Attlee . |
| 7 | Mr Stern 's costings tell him it is not worth paying more than £750/acre for bare arable land if he is to make a reasonable living . |
| 8 | These products and services are purchased in order that some specific organisational objective may be achieved , whether it be to make a new product , hold greater stocks , improve service and quality , or increase profitability . |
| 9 | In the nineteenth century it was Richard Wagner whose extraordinary ambition it was to make a complete artistic environment , in which the arts would blend . |