Example sentences of "make [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I mean they 're normal to us but they 're not normal to other people , so why should we make them normal to them , just to please society ?
2 On the other hand these concepts must be introduced in a manner that will make them intelligible .
3 It was broadly the premise of those movements that science and technology were evil , totalitarian and devoid of the attributes which could make them amenable to the " human spirit " .
4 Do n't forget to provide drainage so water does not collect on the treads ; this will make them slippery and potentially dangerous , and will also encourage the growth of algae and moss on the surfaces .
5 Good deeds were good in themselves , and the ears and eyes and approval of the world would not make them better — quite the reverse .
6 These major disasters are compounded by the fact that those people believed that the NHS would make them better .
7 It MIGHT make them tired at the end of the season — but the confidence they would gain would more than compensate .
8 ‘ It does not make them nervous , ’ Bloch says .
9 I will shortly be preparing more detailed notes and will make them available to you as soon as they are completed .
10 We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals .
11 America 's first hostile bids did not go over the heads of the managers , but that did not make them friendly .
12 GAIL ROBINSON RUNS THROUGH THE TOP CONTENDERS AND EXPLAINS WHY MS-DOS 6 WO N'T MAKE THEM REDUNDANT
13 The limitations inherent in student work became overly familiar and he would ask , despairingly , ‘ How can I make them good ? ’
14 They can take their minds off it , but it can make them irritable or ‘ difficult ’ .
15 The militants are split between degrees of intransigence , which could make them vulnerable at the polls .
16 Regional brewers fear that the decision may make them vulnerable to predators .
17 However , we believe many Planning Committee members are fearful that voting to refuse will make them vulnerable to unpleasant accusations that they are uncaring of the needs of terminally ill children .
18 But that would make them vulnerable to a surprise attack .
19 The Cretaceous period , in which they thrived but which was also marked by accelerated evolutionary trends that would ultimately make them extinct , is long even on the scale geologists use to measure history — 70 million years .
20 However , it will never make them rich in the same way that potentially having an independent company and taking that to the market would have .
21 ‘ They do n't make them strong enough , ’ said Midwinter .
22 Yet others may lack both religious belief and any experience that might make them dubious of their secularism .
23 It was only a one-sided lock , which is completely and totally different to an ordinary lock er working both sides , you see what I mean and er I er I 'd got to er make a key , number thirty-nine just like that , see but I had it and I could find out what thirty-nine was and I could make them one and send it and knowing it would fit see and er when they had different people working there , you know staff , things like that , not a lot of orders but er somebody else come .
24 ‘ You 'd make them all interested in you . ’
25 If you concentrated you could make them all line up , in 3-D ; and then it would all just collapse and be jiggling spots again .
26 Well , he would make them all sit up and take notice .
27 Even , let's even make them all the age .
28 In the course of approval , LIFESPAN will make them all selected versions .
29 Erm , I 'll make them , I 'll make them all take away , sorry , discounts , because if you could do those you can do the adding ones .
30 You can keep a people ignorant but you can not make them ignorant — ‘ Tom Paine ? ’
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