Example sentences of "to make [pers pn] [vb infin] that the " in BNC.

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1 It is not enough to make me forget that the owl remains elsewhere .
2 If our propaganda has failed , it has failed because we have been unable to arouse the British people in such a way as to make them feel that the cause of Republican Spain was their cause in such a measure that they would take every risk , even the risk of war to make the Republican cause in Spain prevail .
3 They are used to politicians listening with some care to their demands , and the evidence of this attention and the obvious impact of general elections is usually sufficient to make them feel that the old maxims of the Westminster model still have some meaning .
4 It was all a smokescreen to make them believe that the Clarion Call had been lost at sea .
5 Then he looked at the Curator , straight into his eyes to make him understand that the person he was thinking of was himself .
6 Mrs. Hamblin had not intended to make it appear that the car belonged to the trader .
7 Is the proliferation of training schemes and employment agencies merely a move a ) to reduce unemployment statistics b ) to make it seem that the government is doing something without it having to positively intervene economically in a massive problem ?
8 The excitement of The Place of the Lion is in its power to shake the reader up — to make us feel that the world is not the place we thought it was .
9 Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real , when in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real , but of the order of the hyperreal and of simulation " .
10 Then the policeman continued , ‘ If the method was copied in order to make us believe that the crime was committed by the killer of the other girls , then our new killer is either clumsy , or stupid . ’
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