Example sentences of "the [noun] to make [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas 's lack of success in front of goal , though , underlines Aberdeen 's Achilles ' heel — the inability to make pressure tell . |
| 2 | In their different ways , both absolute and relative concepts suggest that the struggle to make ends meet is fought out in and against the routines which sustain health ; in the routines of buying bones from the butcher and not buying new shoes for the children . |
| 3 | She no longer had the money to make ends meet . |
| 4 | A post-imprisonment supervision was to be introduced for those serving more than one year , and wider powers given to the courts to make parents take responsibility for their children 's offences . |
| 5 | More helpful , perhaps , for both native and foreign speakers of French is the decision to make accents correspond to the way words should be pronounced . |
| 6 | In a sense , it is the counterpart of our need for autonomy : while autonomy is the freedom to make things happen , security is the freedom from things we do not want to happen . |
| 7 | In the fight to make ends meet , she was obliged to surround herself with people . |
| 8 | You have to y y y you have to promote the product to make people buy it . |
| 9 | Mother Francis hoped that the Community in Dublin would understand the need to make Eve feel important and part of the place as they had always done here in Knockglen . |
| 10 | Both seemed to lack the facility to make things look right . |
| 11 | Hastings the man to make Lions roar |
| 12 | Women are up well before dawn and may have only five or six hours sleep a night in the effort to make ends meet . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're the horriblest Mummy in the world to make Daddy go , ’ she said . |
| 14 | He knew the way to make people do what you wanted was to make them think it was their idea . |
| 15 | She has an extraordinary gift , as she is telekinetic and so has the power to make things happen through thought-transmission . |
| 16 | If the force is to be linked with the Regular Army , legislation must come before the House to make employers give leave of absence . |