Example sentences of "to make [noun] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took a fright like that to make Peggy look solemn . |
| 2 | I was using the very fast 12-shot per roll film which estate agents use to make houses look good in the rain . |
| 3 | The Bank has quadrupled its investment in environmental projects over the past year , from US$404 million to US$1,600 million , but critics charge that the money is being used to make projects look green rather than cancelling bad projects , which Bank officials are said to be reluctant to do . |
| 4 | ‘ To make lips look fuller , the trick is to define them with a brown eyeliner and outline the shape you want them to be and then go for a light coloured lipstick . |
| 5 | Attempts to make labels seem urgent by putting qualifiers alongside them ( for example , so aggressive , extremely hyperactive ) only disguise the subjectivity of the problem . |
| 6 | Mother Francis hoped that the Community in Dublin would understand the need to make Eve feel important and part of the place as they had always done here in Knockglen . |
| 7 | And some have diced with death to make Bond look good . |
| 8 | But what security precautions could the Indian 's offer to make England feel any more comfortable in the coming weeks if the current Hindu-Moslem clashes continue ? |
| 9 | What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call , carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead . |
| 10 | She has to make workers feel welcome and valued — but must n't tolerate carelessness or inefficiency . |
| 11 | She tried to make Martha speak high English at home as if she were still in school , but the old woman often lapsed into patois herself . |
| 12 | Both seemed to lack the facility to make things look right . |
| 13 | Transcription has the unfortunate tendency to make things seem simpler and more clear-cut than they really are . |
| 14 | Headhunting 1960s-style tended to make consultants feel conspiratorial , shady and slightly suspect even if , like Young , they were wholly convinced of the ultimate value of executive search to a company 's efficiency and performance . |
| 15 | Our technique is to make customers feel relaxed and make them feel they are buying the right car for their needs . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It is wrong to make businesses pay more than they can afford . |
| 17 | At worst , it is placebo politics , selling a deceit to make people feel better . |
| 18 | I want to make people feel good ’ |
| 19 | We all need motivating and encouraging and we need to make people feel good about their efforts and achievements . |
| 20 | And just the sense of security and I do n't think that the level of incidence was very high , but it was enough to make people feel insecure about walking through there at night . |
| 21 | This needs to be done on such occasions , to make people feel involved and committed — they are then more likely to turn up , even on a bad day ! |
| 22 | Perhaps maybe a cut off time for when a meeting should finish , which I think we 'd all dearly love , maybe that very common in business , maybe it 's about time we put it into council life as well , so those of progress , not trying to make people feel guilty but trying to serve the people they represent . |
| 23 | ‘ You just say that to make people feel sorry for you . |
| 24 | To , to make people feel sorry for them and they have no shame at all in breaking limbs and distorting their features and all so that kind to make themselves look as pitiful as they possible can because they 're going to live a life of a beggar and they tell us it 's very profitable being a beggar in some lands , people can make in this country they reckon up to in places like London a hundred pounds a day being a beggar that 's more than you earn a day is n't it ? |
| 25 | If the process of shopping is seen to represent a leisure activity and a positive social experience , then the environment must be designed to make people feel comfortable . |
| 26 | ‘ My job is to make people look good , ’ she replied a little tartly . |
| 27 | What we 're hoping to do in this exhibition is to make people realize that science and technology is not as difficult as some people would have you believe , and that it can be fun . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm interested in the small things that gradually lead to the repression of women — I want to make people see these , but be able to laugh at the same time . |
| 29 | In Chapter 11 we showed that an increase in the after-tax wage ( as for example when income tax rates are cut ) will have a substitution effect , tending to make people work longer hours , but an income effect , tending to make them work fewer hours . |
| 30 | Some of her friends bought cushions and pictures and even , extravagantly , curtains , in an effort to make rooms look homely , and though she liked the results , she viewed the aim with contempt . |