Example sentences of "the [noun] to make [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fold the four playing tokens ( pictures of party leaders ) at the base to make them stand . |
| 2 | At the moment , local authorities , which are supposed to police many of the new controls , do not have either the expertise or the money to make them work . |
| 3 | But the colonies were run on a shoe-string and generated explosive tensions ; both officers and men loathed the system , and the attempt to make it pay by imposing the most detailed and humiliating regulations sparked off repeated risings . |
| 4 | Although he had the pride and the carriage to make it look easy , he was often terrified . |
| 5 | When I had a lock that was sticking what did I blow What powder I did I blow into the lock to make it work better ? |
| 6 | She stood defiantly in front of him , shaking her head , trying desperately to find the words to make him realise that she was tired , due for leave , and really felt he should ask someone else . |
| 7 | After her death Jones planned to place the body in the car with the engine running and push the pipe through the window to make it look like suicide . |
| 8 | It is alleged that I am unpunctual sometimes , so certain members of the party arranged with the driver and the guard to make me run for the train . |
| 9 | He took from it a ten-shilling note which he placed on the tea-chest , smoothing out the folds to make it lie flat . |
| 10 | I think there 's sufficient weighting on the course in art for the child to make it work … if you kill the word ‘ exam ’ and just call it a ‘ set piece ’ , and say ‘ This is the final piece of work I 'd like you to do ’ , and see if there 's a climax of five terms ' work , as opposed to some sort of insurmountable hurdle that only 20 per cent of the pupils can get over … ‘ if you do n't make a particularly good job of it , it only carries 40 per cent of the marks and you 've got 60 per cent for the coursework ‘ . |
| 11 | Both authors have the skill to make you feel great empathy with their heroines . |
| 12 | However the wily old man gets his way , surreptitiously sabotaging the TARDIS to make it look like mechanical failure , and suggesting the city as the only source of repair . |
| 13 | Mrs Bottomley is convinced the Tory victory provides the opportunity to entrench the reforms — and to give doctors , nurses and managers the confidence to make them work . |
| 14 | One 's the need to make him let me go . |
| 15 | The big glass tells the story of the aridity of art , he wrote , of the lies of art , of the machine without the fuel to make it move . |
| 16 | That bit about throwing the stone up the alley to make him rush off after it , I got that from a detective story . |
| 17 | Only how the devil to make him believe that ? |
| 18 | matchsticks together and then I stuck one half on top of the other to make it look like an extending ladder . |
| 19 | Where the Government propose alternatives to custody , they must provide the resources to make them work . |
| 20 | Untanned skin takes time for the natural melanin pigment to be triggered off by sunrays and to rise to the surface to make you look brown . |
| 21 | Alan banged another ashtray into the bin to make it look as if he was working . |
| 22 | ‘ Stapleton had the idea of buying a huge hound , and of using the phosphorus to make it shine like the hound in the story . |
| 23 | Plungers require 75mm ( 3in ) or so of water in the sink to make them work . |
| 24 | ‘ The corpse was then moved to the foot of the stairs to make it look like an accident . ’ |
| 25 | They found Lady Eleanor dead in her chamber and , concerned about the possible consequences , took her body to the foot of the stairs to make it look like an accident . |
| 26 | The last two jobs are arguably the most important , the finish on the runners to make the sled slide , and the brake to make it stop . |
| 27 | The trouble is that the public backs the law but not the means to make it work . |
| 28 | Glamorgan is way up on Devil 's Peak , and the sight of misty blue clouds hovering over its rocky peaks , so low that you feel that you could touch them , is so awe-inspiring that one feels all it needs is God 's voice thundering from the sky to make you fall flat on your face and worship . |
| 29 | A tall order , but possible , given the will to make it succeed by all those involved . |
| 30 | Conservation can not work unless we have the will to make it work . |