Example sentences of "was [verb] to make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The film was intended to make a star of Twentieth Century Fox boss Darryl F. Zanuck 's latest protege , French actress Genevieve Gilles , whose first picture it was , after her success as a model . |
| 2 | The Grand Prix title could bring her earnings in just one week to an unprecedented £120,000 nice work for a girl who last year was considering taking up a full-time job because she was struggling to make a living on the Grand Prix circuit . |
| 3 | But if I was pressed to make a choice , apart from Coldingham Loch , I would have to admit that the Whiteadder River is my favourite Border stream , and I confess that I have a vested interest in Whiteadder . |
| 4 | The exercise was designed to make a student stand in front of class , sing his song and force each syllable out in an elongated manner so that it had a beginning and an end ; this , Landau explained , ought to enable the student to go into neutral , physically and mentally , so that tensions could be released and what was happening inside could be heard through the voice changes . |
| 5 | This study was designed to make a distinction between three different concepts of risk : objective , estimated and subjective , the variable of particular interest being subjective risk . |
| 6 | At one point , too , the producer David Wolper was approached to make a film about Central America ‘ to tell the story better ’ , but he demurred ; he had ‘ the Statue of Liberty coming up . ’ |
| 7 | Before going to Beijing , on Oct. 7 Patten was expected to make a key policy speech to the Hong Kong legislative council , reports said . |
| 8 | played rather a dirty trick on me because he did n't tell me that I was expected to make a speech . |
| 9 | There was one witness , a Mrs Jackson , who had bumped into a man at the appropriate time , near Oliver 's premises in Cross Street , but the good lady was refusing to make a statement without the consent of her husband . |
| 10 | A definition of that sort might allow the person addressed to take into account the fact that the person making the utterance was seeking to make a serious point , or engage him in reasoned discussion , or was acting unintentionally . |
| 11 | The point that I was seeking to make a moment ago — I reiterate it now — is that I think that it is to the advantage of everyone in Northern Ireland for the politicians of Northern Ireland , of all shades of opinion , to come together , to talk and to express their mutual wish for peace in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | As Nether Wyresdale is a relatively small parish and does not have a large budget it was decided to make a one-off donation to the appeal . |
| 13 | The rain cast a decided dampener on their spirits and , as it became heavier , Geoffrey was moved to make a mild complaint . |
| 14 | The position of Bob John was stabilized at left-back , Billy Blyth was recalled to form the ‘ three Bs ’ halfback line with Baker and Butler , and Dr Jimmy Paterson , the amateur outside-right , was persuaded to make a comeback . |
| 15 | Now , with her husband playing the ‘ hero ’ survivor of the post office raid in Two Living , One Dead , she was persuaded to make a comeback , as the wife of the other , ‘ cowardly ’ survivor , played by McGoohan , already a star of films and the TV thriller series Danger Man . |
| 16 | Clay was used to make a range of items ranging from loom-weights to the unique clay figure from Spong Hill ( Hills 1980a ) , but pottery vessels are the most frequent . |
| 17 | The excavated earth was used to make a parapet in front of the trench and a reredos behind it ; the front was further protected by barbed wire entanglements of varying depth and complexity . |
| 18 | ( It was used to make a " gun-shot " by being popped at the right moment , thereby creating the wrong time for the murder . |
| 19 | It was agreed to make a pictorial record of the village — houses , trees , buildings etc. to be retained by the Village Association . |
| 20 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council it was agreed to make a donation of £50 towards the setting up and running of this service . |
| 21 | To his surprise , he discovered that what was needed to make a powerful political speech was not the same gift as that which was needed to make a powerful sermon . |
| 22 | To his surprise , he discovered that what was needed to make a powerful political speech was not the same gift as that which was needed to make a powerful sermon . |
| 23 | Third , the right was needed to make a clear public rejection of the Tsarist record and to combat Great Russian chauvinism . |
| 24 | By then , Jack Nicholson had , after a lot of heart-searching , agreed he was going to make a movie out of Larner 's book for BBS , with Larner himself as joint scriptwriter . |
| 25 | For one appalling moment he thought the fräulein was going to make a scene . |
| 26 | In my mind I was one of them and there was no way that I was going to make a living from carrying out painful experiments on friends . |
| 27 | If I was going to make a change , that was the time to do it . ’ |
| 28 | The question in Hunt 's mind , when I saw him at the beginning of the 1976 season , was whether changing teams and style was going to make a substantial difference in his way of life : in his informality , his private life , his sense of his own personal liberty . |
| 29 | She imagined he was going to make a move towards her , but what he did was to hitch the child closer to him until his face was almost pressed against his own and then he smiled a smile that widened his full lips but , as she had seen before , did not separate his teeth . |
| 30 | I did n't see the same face twice for three weeks — there were so many sound stages and all these people , and on top of that , I was going to make a movie with Clark Gable . |