Example sentences of "and to make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we pass this policy we can save at least £5bn to help to put this country on its feet again and to make decent lives for ordinary people possible , ’ he said . |
| 2 | It is a responsibility of the Centre to provide support to the academic economist developing programs for new techniques and to make appropriate programs commercially available outside the academic environment . |
| 3 | It will pay them to settle in advance how such matters are to be resolved and to make appropriate provision in the partnership agreement . |
| 4 | And I know it 's their intention to discuss it and to make appropriate representations . |
| 5 | There was to be a drive to recruit married women who had left teaching , and to make part-time teaching more attractive . |
| 6 | To shewe the villain and to make all clere |
| 7 | The policy behind Article 35 is to protect a third party from undesired obligations and to make that party 's consent the basis of any such obligations . |
| 8 | Autonomy involves the right and the capacity to exercise choice and to make reasoned judgements , and not the capacity to have those judgements invariably realised in action . |
| 9 | When this was fed back to the operators , they were quickly able to see how their actions were contributing to the effluent and to make substantial reductions in the amount of ammonia leaving the plant . |
| 10 | It gave them space and energy to reconsider what they wanted from life and to make certain changes with confidence . |
| 11 | At any rate he took it sufficiently seriously to be anxious to resign and retreat to Worcestershire immediately , without waiting to see what forces might crystallize around him , and to make tentative plans for spending the winter abroad . |
| 12 | The increasing abstraction of modern art has tended to extend this distance from the immediacy of forms , and to make such art increasingly difficult to interpret for those not familiar with the conventions and history of the field . |
| 13 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in the exercise of its inherent jurisdiction the court would not order a medical practitioner to treat his patient in a manner contrary to his clinical judgment and professional duty ; that the proper approach , pending any final decision , was for the court to consider the options available to it in exercising its inherent powers and to make such order as best served the child 's true interests , and it would be wrong to apply the principles governing the grant of interlocutory injunctions in civil proceedings ; that , further , the judge 's order was defective in that it failed to specify the precise requirements imposed on the health authority and to take sufficient account of that authority 's distribution of resources in its patient care ; and that , accordingly , the order would be set aside ( post , pp. 516B–G , 517D–F , 518E–F , H — 519C , E–H , 520B–C , E–F ) . |
| 14 | The duty to provide such public sewers as may be necessary for effectually draining their district for the purposes of the Act , and to make such provision , by means of sewage disposal works or otherwise as may be necessary for effectually dealing with the contents of their sewers. ( s.14(1) ) |
| 15 | It is the duty of the official receiver to investigate the conduct and affairs of every bankrupt and to make such report ( if any ) to the court as he thinks fit ( s 289(1) ) . |
| 16 | It is the official receiver 's duty to investigate the conduct and affairs of the bankrupt and to make such report ( if any ) to the court as he thinks fit ( s 289(1) ) . |
| 17 | Only then can they grow up able to enjoy full lives , to become responsible and useful citizens and to make good parents in turn . |
| 18 | I am pleased to report that in 1992 , ICI continued to improve the environmental performance of its operations worldwide and to make good progress towards meeting its environmental objectives . |
| 19 | He also promised to promote her son , then studying at Cambridge , to appropriate benefices and to make other benefactions . |
| 20 | He also promised to promote her son , then studying at Cambridge , to appropriate benefices and to make other benefactions . |
| 21 | A committee was appointed to consider the plans , to choose a site for the infirmary and to make other recommendations ; it included the Duke of Bedford , Mr. Osborn , Mr. Pym , Mr. Higgins of Turvey , Lord John Russell , Samuel Whitbread and Dr. Yeats — the latter a local physician . |
| 22 | As well as a chance for the farmers and traders to do business , it was an opportunity to meet old friends and to make new ones . |
| 23 | The battery group , under Dr Colin Vincent , aims to develop a new range of materials to improve the reliability of batteries and to make new ones that are smaller and lighter than today 's batteries . |
| 24 | As they work with poetry , children are able to reflect on what they know , to extend their understanding and to make new discoveries . |
| 25 | My thesis is that the remedy is not to discard voluntary bodies but to infuse them with a new purpose and to make new demands upon them ; and I have suggested that the new purpose is nothing less than to preserve the individuality of man . |
| 26 | 146 ( 1 ) A right of re-entry or forfeiture under any proviso or stipulation in a lease for a breach of any covenant or condition in the lease shall not be enforceable , by action or otherwise , unless and until the lessor serves on the lessee a notice — ( a ) specifying the particular breach complained of ; and ( b ) if the breach is capable of remedy , requiring the lessee to remedy the breach ; and ( c ) in any case , requiring the lessee to make compensation in money for the breach ; and the lessee fails , within a reasonable time thereafter , to remedy the breach , if it is capable of remedy , and to make reasonable compensation in money , to the satisfaction of the lessor , for the breach . |
| 27 | By the next morning its hyperactivity had returned , and to make future ease of handling possible it was decided to employ the Walther method of de-clawing . |
| 28 | It is also possible to get data for past populations of countries , and to make alternative projections towards the present day , thus comparing what did happen with what might have happened . |
| 29 | Higher levels of analysis can provide extra knowledge , both to aid detection of errors , and to make alternative suggestions for possible correction of a detected error . |
| 30 | Likewise the Whig Junto chief , John Somers , defended " The Archbishop , and those of his worthy Brethren " against those who would " traduce the Governors of the Church , as Enemies and Betrayers of it , and to make zealous Churchmen and others believe , that there are some men who are better Pastors , and truer Friends of the Church than the Bishops are " . |