Example sentences of "a [noun] to make [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE latest piece of Brazilian economics is of a kind to make heads spin . |
| 2 | At worst , it is placebo politics , selling a deceit to make people feel better . |
| 3 | JACK Dee had tried for a while to make people laugh with a totally put-on chirpy delivery . |
| 4 | ‘ I love driving but I was doing this 14 or 15 hours a day to make ends meet . |
| 5 | ‘ And I know of one Darlington school which is running a lottery to make ends meet . |
| 6 | Father had given up tobacco and alcohol to send me £2 15s ( Pounds 2.75 ) a week to make ends meet . |
| 7 | The cash-strapped council this week cut home help services in the county to once a fortnight to make funds last until the new financial year in April . |
| 8 | He had developed a way to make things work efficiently , a system . |
| 9 | There is a way to make neutrinos decay without producing light — you can achieve almost anything in this sort of physics , as long as you are willing to do nasty things to pretty theories — but it involves conjuring up yet another new particle . |
| 10 | A family to make Pretoria tremble : Walter Sisulu will leave his cell to join a wife and son who have themselves been restricted , John Carlin writes from Johannesburg |
| 11 | He is using middleweight and light-heavyweight sparring partners in an attempt to make Cooney work faster , but in the session I watched he was not quick enough . |
| 12 | He is using middleweight and light-heavyweight sparring partners in an attempt to make Cooney work faster , but in the session I watched he was not quick enough . |
| 13 | Company sick pay , canteens shared with managers and regular company-provided medical check-ups are all part of an attempt to make workers identify with their company . |
| 14 | We all know packaging is often superfluous … an excess to make people buy the product rather than just wrap it up and that must be recovered … so we want the industry to use minimum packaging and we want the industry to come forward with ideas on that — if they do n't then we 'll legislate . |
| 15 | Spaniards have been told the time of sacrifice is over ; now come the years of effort — an effort to make Spain fit to enter European monetary and economic union in 1997 . |
| 16 | Some of her friends bought cushions and pictures and even , extravagantly , curtains , in an effort to make rooms look homely , and though she liked the results , she viewed the aim with contempt . |
| 17 | Far from being a romantic reaction against science , this represents an effort to make people recognize that the scientific concepts which permeate our society have implications far beyond the immediate domain of their technical application , and that they are rooted in seemingly more primitive modes of thought such as story-telling . |