Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three factors ( size , speed , and groove-pitch ) might be manipulated to make long-playing records . |
| 2 | If it is agreed that project work has a great deal to offer in terms of developing reading , but recognised that these opportunities tend not to be exploited to the full , it is necessary to examine ways in which project work can be designed to make fuller use of its potential . |
| 3 | An acceptable formula will probably be expected to make each school 's ‘ budget share ’ depend mainly on the numbers of pupils in the school , but also to take into account such factors as the ages of the children , the subjects they are studying , and the numbers with special needs ; and also perhaps the levels of social advantage and disadvantage in the community the school serves . |
| 4 | Katharine will be expected to make two speeches during her visit , but for now she 's practicing the most important phrase : thank-you for having me . |
| 5 | No legislation could be expected to make ready-money dealings the universal rule . |
| 6 | Aguirre , previously thought of as one of the President 's most loyal officers , described it as " unfair and unjust " and stated that a leader who was incapable of " making a just and proper decision over a simple matter such as appointments can not be expected to make correct decisions about the complex affairs of state " . |
| 7 | Peter Field , the chief Australian negotiator , said that although developing countries in the " Cairns Group " would be expected to make lower cuts in protective import tariffs , their endorsement of the proposals showed that they were " prepared to bite the bullet " . |
| 8 | Finally , CytR would be expected to make identical contacts to the two cAMP-CRP complexes in deoP2 . |
| 9 | One was to acknowledge that GATT 's rules should take account of levels of economic development , and that developing countries henceforward would not invariably be expected to make reciprocal concessions to the rich , developed countries . |
| 10 | Furthermore , graduates can be expected to make fewer demands on the public purse in later life . |
| 11 | The Swedish Prime Minister , Carl Bildt , justly complained that ‘ membership has unspecified potential obligations ’ , and that Sweden thus could not be expected to make binding assurances that she would participate in a common defence policy which has not yet been defined . |
| 12 | The White Paper takes the same approach : ‘ Local authorities will be expected to make maximum use of the independent sector . |
| 13 | Local authorities will be expected to make maximum use of the independent sector . |
| 14 | However , the builder may be expected to make some contribution towards travelling time and costs where he has failed to obtain suitable sub-contract labour within the vicinity of the site and a subcontractor is requested to travel an excessive distance . |
| 15 | The original idea was that the gliders should be built to make one flight only . |
| 16 | If Saddam Hussein or Colonel Qaddaffi were bidding for control of a firm that employs 130,000 people , makes explosives and could be made to make chemical weapons , that would be reason for concern . |
| 17 | The need for improved facilities for Arts and Social Studies , as an aid to the recruitment and retention of academic staff and to assist in the improvement of research activity , has caused the University to launch a review or three sites ( namely the area around the St Cross Building , the central site surrounding the Bodleian Library , and the Taylorian/Ashmolean site ) to see what scope there is for the rationalisation of existing uses and what changes can be made to make better use of them , with a view to defining a comprehensive and coherent scheme for the development of each site which has most to commend it on academic grounds . |
| 18 | However , an attempt must be made to make constructive suggestions , even if there are glaring contradictions . |
| 19 | To return to Lévi-Strauss , the point has been made that emotion need not be seen as obscure and incomprehensible , and that Freud 's importance is that he made a lasting contribution to explicating how the most obscure actions can be seen to make emotional sense . |
| 20 | For used money to be viable it has to be seen to make new money . |
| 21 | If Corys can be seen to make repeated dashes to the aquarium surface , this tends to indicate a low oxygen level ; a high nitrate level , and/or low pH . |
| 22 | Although Quattro Pro 4 ca n't be said to make any task easier than in an equivalent Windows spreadsheet , what it does prove is that with very little limitation a DOS product can manage the same job as a Windows product any trouble at all . |
| 23 | It is technically perfectly lawful for a Minister of the Crown to be empowered to make statutory instruments in such a way that they are never subjected to parliamentary scrutiny — indeed , there is no requirement of promulgation or publication for an instrument to become legally binding and an instrument made by the Minister and cached in his bottom drawer could be as binding as the Theft Act ( although in this situation ignorance might , rarely in our law , offer a defence by reason of s.3(2) of the Statutory Instruments Act |
| 24 | Whilst the evident unpopularity of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe may be thought to make such forces reliable in wartime for garrison and rear duties only , fact is that these military forces are trained and equipped for a war with NATO , according to an offensive doctrine of ‘ coalition warfare ’ , designed to place them from the start of hostilities onto an ‘ external front ’ . |
| 25 | Fastness to light may be a problem , but this does not mean that they can not be used to make finished pieces . |
| 26 | He predicted that in future the technique would be used to make subtle change to politicians ' facial features in print and on television to make them appear more attractive . |
| 27 | While there are tools that have more stitch hooks ( optional ) and these could be used to make wider cables , a three over three pattern probably remains the most comfortable to work with . |
| 28 | Standard techniques may be used to make broad comparisons between groups of individuals but the statistical analysis of changes over time and interrelationships between events , topics often of special interest to the psychologist , is much less well understood . |
| 29 | Cut and sew can also be used to make two fronts from a single knitted piece . |
| 30 | The same approach could be used to make other animal tissues into useful transplants . |