Example sentences of "[vb base] to make the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Obviously , anyone who has been oppressed for 40 years will have among their number people who want to make the complete lunge towards a so-called free market utopia . |
| 2 | We want sparkle on the job , and we want to make the right tools available . |
| 3 | I merely want to make the limited point that many of these students — who may be highly intelligent — do not have the existing familiarity with poetry , not to mention the general knowledge and cultural literacy , that would enable them to engage as equals in genuinely critical discussion . |
| 4 | But as I say I do n't necessarily want to get involved in too much of the detail of the statistics of it , I simply want to make the overall point that we 've been told that there are three thousand unemployed . |
| 5 | ‘ We want to make the whole pie bigger so there 's more for us , more for them , more for everybody . ’ |
| 6 | If you want to make the naked truth unfurled ask tomorrow for the News of the World . |
| 7 | Given that the units each do their particular thing , I can then understand how they interact to make the whole engine move . |
| 8 | Some expert clauses seek to make the appointing authority ( or its president ) responsible for ensuring the expert has suitable qualifications . |
| 9 | The researchers hope to make the new material more like elephant tusk by streaking it and roughening the texture . |
| 10 | Players of his calibre will always scare opponents because they always seem to make the right decisions . ’ |
| 11 | As long as those who use the concept of structured dependency continue to make the automatic association of retirement with dependency , and of work with independence , they will continue to bolster conservative notions of the competitive work ethic . |
| 12 | But if the choreographer does not understand all the details which go to make the total presentation of a ballet , it can all too easily fail in some way or other . |
| 13 | We aim to make the simplifying process one of distillation and concentration , rather than trying to make ‘ umbrella ’ statements which are unobjectionable . |
| 14 | Such responses help to make the important point that just because mass media were good at spreading news and information , those were not the only purposes they served . |
| 15 | In support of this request I wish to make the following points : |
| 16 | I WISH to make the following points about the report Fears as river path crumbles ( Echo January 23 ) . |
| 17 | We wish to make the following points to SMT before a decision is made : |
| 18 | The current blackcloth of financial constraint in local government and the fact that most companies are under economic pressures , combine to make the short-term future less than ideal . |
| 19 | This omission , together with a lack of any technical details on how it actually works combine to make the Light Rifle somewhat less of a genuine alternative to a joystick and more of a gimmick . |
| 20 | Four factors combine to make the British countryside what it is today : the geology of the earth 's crust , the climatic history of the glacial and post-glacial ages , the present-day climate ( particularly rainfall ) , and the influence of man . |
| 21 | The provision sometimes inserted in a settlement for giving remuneration to a professional man who is one of the trustees is open to considerable objection since it may give him an interest in incurring expense , and will , in any case , tend to make the other trustees leave the management mainly in his hands . |
| 22 | Networks operating on this principle perform an operation that is likely to be extremely important for the neocortex , and it was actually the search for a mechanism that would do this that led us to the suggested modification rule : the modifiable interconnections tend to make the representative elements become uncorrelated , and thus to signal independently of each other . |
| 23 | Deconstructionists , though , tend to make the triumphant exposure of aporia a goal in itself , whereas Marxists incorporate their findings into a political and ideological system . |
| 24 | ‘ After all , I only have to make the right moves at the right time . ’ |
| 25 | What we have to do , we have to make the mental leap into a very different world in which witchcraft and dreams and superstitions and so on are mingling together and we must make that effort , and not just assume that somehow it 's William Gladstone who happens to be dressed up in Oliver Cromwell 's clothes . |
| 26 | It is those who do not come from those dominant traditions who have to make the sympathetic adjustment . |
| 27 | And work to make the top deck of the National Car Park in East Street , Darlington , waterproof has also been branded a failure . |