Example sentences of "be [vb pp] make the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Video hire stores say if the movie is a money spinner in the cinema the general video release could well be delayed making the sale of pirate tapes particularly lucrative . |
| 2 | While the centre rectangle has the ‘ grain' in-line with the edges , each of the triangles which will be joined to make the head and foot will have their ‘ grain' running at right angles ( and parallel to ) the edges . |
| 3 | Ultimately , the machine layout or interface design may be modified to make the operating instructions easier to follow . |
| 4 | If that spark is to grow , wood must be added to make the flame grow bigger . |
| 5 | He stared out of his constricting net of anxieties and fears at this clean , smooth , well-intentioned boy , and wondered why he should be expected to make the effort to answer him at all . |
| 6 | Although all sets and costumes were designed in colour , a lot of ingenuity needed to be applied to make the sets visually more interesting to the viewers ; compensating them for only seeing everything in monochrome and through a slightly muzzy 405 line picture . |
| 7 | This can be either broad , with the full expression of human feeling common only to the Labour movement , or it may be narrow , niggardly and mean with only the objective of shirking responsibility , and never carrying out in the spirit of those laws work which could be applied to make the conditions of the working people easier , and the lives of their children brighter and better . |
| 8 | Everything will be done to make the occasion as ‘ normal ’ as possible . |
| 9 | Please could you look into this and see what can be done to make the lights visible again . |
| 10 | Please could you look into the matter and see what can be done to make the lights visible again . |
| 11 | Please could you look into this and see what can be done to make the lights visible again . |
| 12 | He found trees full of beautiful moss roses , red , white and yellow , which showed what can be done to make the desert smile . " |
| 13 | He found trees full of beautiful moss roses , red , white and yellow , which showed what can be done to make the desert smile . " |
| 14 | 2 The " condition " — acts which must be done to make the sentence operative . |
| 15 | This is regrettable , certainly , and everything should be done to make the lives of these animals as good as practicable . |
| 16 | Oh , there were all kinds if things that could be done to make the visit memorable . |
| 17 | A further stereo jack provides a side chain insert point , allowing for items like equalisers to be connected to make the compressor sensitive to certain frequencies — for example when ‘ de-essing ’ ( removing unwanted sibilance from certain words ) . |
| 18 | All the weight has to be used to make the tail dig in , so the posture needed is exactly that of a very bad carve gybe , ie straight front leg , leaning back and pulling the rig towards you . |
| 19 | It is therefore necessary to ascertain whether this device could be used to make the member States liable to the creditors in international law . |
| 20 | The Bank 's waste cups will go to produce a wide variety of goods and may even be used to make the trays for collecting the Bank 's waste paper . ’ |
| 21 | Gastric emptying tests can not therefore be used to make the diagnosis , although they can , nevertheless yield results consistentwith the diagnosis . |
| 22 | Although Kruger would eventually like to target consumers and the breakfast table market , he said that this was not possible at the moment — some form of docking station would be needed to make the proposition viable , and this is not yet available . |
| 23 | Otherwise , after a hard day 's work in the middle of winter , you will find that you can not be bothered to make the effort to go along and you will have wasted the fees . |
| 24 | They decided that Pilger , Hayling and the journalists simply could n't be bothered to make the move . |
| 25 | A number of techniques can be employed to make the experience more valuable . |
| 26 | There are , of course , cases where the user has to resort to good old ASCII , the lingua franca of all computer systems but even here there are tricks that can be employed to make the process a little easier . |
| 27 | Walter Monckton , his legal adviser , seized the point , and on Saturday , 5 December , asked almost as a condition of Abdication , that a special bill should be introduced to make the decree immediately absolute , and thus remove the danger . |
| 28 | Resources need to be provided to make the care programme approach a reality . |
| 29 | However a special fuel pump had to be found to make the tractor suitable for farm work . |
| 30 | The demand must be dated and signed by the creditor himself or by a person stating himself to be authorised to make the demand on the creditor 's behalf . |