Example sentences of "to make [pron] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perchance my studies in Germanic Philology did much to make me aware of racial bonds that time and money have obscured . |
| 2 | The Committee have been able to smooth out a lot of anxieties on this item , although it is impossible to make everyone happy on such a diverse subject . |
| 3 | The words used to make the feelings communicable to others from different cultures and sub-cultures are not attempts to turn emotions into intellectual propositions and to make them comprehensible in that sense . |
| 4 | However , the best way of doing this is not simply to develop important new methods and techniques , but also to make them accessible to applied workers . |
| 5 | Those constructing future policies and principles should strive to make them exemplary in this regard , not least because of the encouragement this will give to schools to be rigorous in their own thinking . |
| 6 | Wilson , now also designated as general secretary , was instructed to take premises in Prospect Row , Sunderland , for a reading room , smoke room and office and have the necessary work done to make them usable for these purposes . |
| 7 | In France , A. M. G. R. Portevin , working with de Dion-Bouton , noted in a report to the Carnegie Foundation ( 1909 ) the corrosion resistance of steels containing more than 10 per cent chromium and subsequently described thermal treatment ( patented May 1911 ) to make them amenable to standard milling processes . |
| 8 | So we see ideas about the nature of communication interpreted in a reductive way , assimilated into preconceived ways of thinking to make them amenable to conventional pedagogic treatment . |
| 9 | They act as a powerful aphrodisiac on pigs , and synthesised versions of them are sprayed onto sows to make them receptive before artificial insemination . |
| 10 | Management awareness profiles are potentially useful , but mechanisms to make them effective in changing behaviour are still to be developed . |
| 11 | CD-ROM ‘ XA ’ has similarities to compact disc interactive ( CD-I ) which we examine in more detail below and , in principal at least , it is possible to build bridges between the two media to make them compatible with one another . |
| 12 | The Government 's announced change of policy on export credit facilities for the republics of the former Soviet Union is welcome , but can the Prime Minister clarify the extent and the effectiveness of these changes in practice , as it appears that the conditions limiting the operation of those credit guarantees is likely to make them unusable for several years to come ? |
| 13 | He was careful therefore to remove easy hope from them , even to make them conscious of long-term defeat and doom . |
| 14 | In the 1988 elections to the National Assembly in Cameroun , the two alternative lists of candidates , under a proportional representation system , were consistently doctored to make them indistinguishable from each other . |
| 15 | In the second half of 1989 about one-third of convicted ETA prisoners were also reclassified to make them eligible for early release . |
| 16 | He did not wish to make her unhappy by any further probing after such a flow of confidences , so he just asked her which city in England she came from , this being a question all immigrants were accustomed to . |
| 17 | A woman whose energy and appetite for merriment were so enormous and whose gift for friendship was so limitless as to make her unique in high London society . |
| 18 | Despite persistent disciplinary problems , he has been guaranteed around £15,000 to make himself available for one of the England tours . |
| 19 | Throughout his career there have been calls on Prince by both the US and UK critical establishment to be a better role model , to make himself accountable to some kind of community , to address himself explicitly to the problems of the day . |
| 20 | Second , it may need to make itself distinct from other species with which it shares its living space . |
| 21 | He opens his wooing with a courteous regard for the lady 's feelings ( at the same time as with a pragmatic eye on the best route to success ) : ( " I will tell you what I have to say , but to make you angry by any deed I should be loath . " ) |
| 22 | ‘ The kind of childhood I had tends to make you wary of trusting people . |
| 23 | It so happened that the dresser at the Shield gave notice , and Dinah decided that she herseelf could teach Lilian to make herself useful in that and other ways . |
| 24 | I felt I had to make him happy after all the sad things which had happened to him , so I told him his English was very good . |
| 25 | Like everyone else in this market , IBM is trying to make it easy for small sites to install so it comes in a wide variety of fixed configurations that encompass various Token Ring , Ethernet wide area network and SDLC attached devices . |
| 26 | The social class composition of lawyers compared with particular client groups appears to make it easy for some to consult lawyers while presenting barriers to other sections of the community . |
| 27 | I have chopped up the Info in such a way as to make it Faxable on 2 sheets So I could do that too , at a pinch . |
| 28 | Previously there were many beginners ' boards available but most were supplied with a massive 6.5m 2 sail which stretched and distorted to make it unmanageable in more than a few knots of wind . |
| 29 | On Dec. 5 , 1990 , the Commission put forward proposals to make it illegal for certain airlines to agree on standard fares or to distribute all available take-off and landing slots at a particular airport among themselves . |
| 30 | You may also limit the duration of the Offline run if , for instance , you have only one tape drive and need to make it available for other operations . |