Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] to make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will oblige them to make long drives across the desert to Egypt or Tunisia when they want to leave the country . |
| 2 | " In the circumstances I felt that you would prefer me to make some money . " |
| 3 | The therapist should enquire about any children , other dependent relatives , or pets that the patient may have and assist him to make appropriate arrangements for their care . |
| 4 | However , his relations with his tenants were never happy , because while Lowther believed his town and harbour should be developed largely at the expense of the inhabitants , with modest financial encouragement from himself , he could never bring himself to make those concessions of self-government which might have persuaded his tenants to co-operate . |
| 5 | Mitchell is also an ‘ old soldier ’ at this game but I do n't expect him to make any headlines . |
| 6 | ‘ Would you like me to make some enquiries ? ’ |
| 7 | While I 'm seeing him , by the way , I 'd like you to make some enquiries in the village . |
| 8 | Mobile users can only use it to make outgoing calls , and must be near one of the 8,000-plus Rabbit base stations dotted across the country . |
| 9 | Although we can not expect them to become typographers or graphic designers , we do believe that even in the short time available during our course we can give them what might be called an aesthetic awareness that will enable them to make reasonable decisions in their future work . |
| 10 | Then gradually their experience will enable them to make sound judgements about their family . |
| 11 | This override may even enable you to make full picture fades ; alternatively , you may have the facility of a separate fade button which will fade both picture and sound simultaneously . |
| 12 | The PLA won enough seats to give it a two-thirds majority in the 250-member People 's Assembly , which would enable it to make constitutional changes without the support of other parties . |
| 13 | It ends with the commissioning of the splendid new Archives Rooms in Darbishire — the gift of Dr Damon Wells — which will enable us to make better provision for both collections and scholars in future . |
| 14 | We hope that the results of the evaluation will enable us to make further improvements in time for the start of the next session . |
| 15 | The skills shortage that will hit Britain in the late 1990s means that companies must maximise human resources , and could lead them to make regular testing a routine part of office and shopfloor life . |
| 16 | I 'll tell 'em to make other arrangements in the interim . ’ |
| 17 | One way in which he does that he thinks is by plural voting , that you give the educated more than one vote , he says we have to make sure the educated do n't form their own class with their own class interests , but , but giving the educated a bigger say will lead us to make better decisions he thinks . |
| 18 | History teachers need to ensure that their pupils have the basic reference skills that will allow them to make effective use of books . |
| 19 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |
| 20 | And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values . |
| 21 | I am topographically accurate , I know the area so well that I simply could n't allow myself to make topographical mistakes . ’ |
| 22 | This would allow us to make any changes we felt were appropriate and would highlight any unforeseen problems . |
| 23 | Littlewoods expect the alterations will help them to make big payouts of as much as £2 million on a more regular basis . |
| 24 | Audrey can I can I just ask you to make this point about this . |
| 25 | Shall I ask her to make another appointment . ’ |