Example sentences of "and to make it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain Dr Richard Hughes introduced modifications into Hahnemann 's original teachings in order to popularize homoeopathy and to make it simpler to prescribe . |
| 2 | They had learned the principles and techniques necessary to focus all the attention onto the VIPs , and to make it easy for presenters , audiences and the news media . |
| 3 | Choosing the right diet is the key , and to make it easy for you we have devised a three-part series , Slim Plan ( page 81 ) , backed by all the knowledge , research and thorough testing you have come to expect from the Good Housekeeping Institute . |
| 4 | By attempting to create rules for the exercise of power , the people subject to it have some hope of being able to control it and to make it legitimate in their own eyes . |
| 5 | Because the motorbike was tucked cunningly under the very rampart of the fortress , much closer than the blue Corvette , Wilkie was able both to reverse the firm family progress of the Grimauds , and to make it impossible for Alexander not to catch up . |
| 6 | The Government 's objective was to make the industry more efficient , to bring it into the latter part of the 20th century and to make it possible for British mines to produce competitively . |
| 7 | It is essential that we should find a way to control our currency and to make it stable . |
| 8 | Announcing the changes , Lacalle stated that he was creating a " special cabinet " , comprising de Posadas , Ache , Braga and Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Alvaro Ramos Trigo , to supervise the restructuring of Uruguay 's industrial sector and to make it competitive in the planned 1995 four-member South American common market , Mercosur [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 9 | Amanullah 's pursuit of his two most cherished objectives , to modernize his country in the shortest possible time and to make it independent of Britain , soon brought him into headlong conflict with Humphrys , whose previous eighteen years in India , mostly among the tribes across the frontier from Afghanistan , had not prepared him to deal with a ruler of such independence of mind . |
| 10 | The conditions laid down were therefore designed to differentiate the National Government from the Lloyd George coalition , and to make it clear that the National Government was not intended , as the Lloyd George coalition had been , to lead to a permanent realignment of the party system . |
| 11 | She burst out laughing , and to make it clear that she was n't laughing at him she pointed out the sign . |
| 12 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 13 | This , it is proposed , should be reformulated so as to replace the expression ‘ merchantable quality ’ with ‘ acceptable quality ’ and to make it clear that it covers the fitness of the goods for all their common purposes , their safety , durability , freedom from minor defects and appearance and finish . |
| 14 | … We have consciously tried to place responsibility on the management of nationalized industries and to make it clear that pay negotiations are matters for them and their employees . |
| 15 | Gaviria stated that the economy needed a " shake-up " in order to increase its size and competitiveness and to make it attractive to foreign investors . |
| 16 | The task of David Pomeranz in writing , and Adrian Reynolds in presentation , was to get this story into a two and a half hours ' stage show and to make it entertaining . |
| 17 | The oboe tends to impoverish the tone of the violins and to make it sound thin and pinched . |
| 18 | For Italians it is almost always ‘ the more , the merrier ’ and to make it easier for you to party as a party , we have a special group offer which gives one free place for every 20 paying customers . |