Example sentences of "to make [pers pn] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I think the knobbly wheels are just to make it grip the ground better , ’ said Dorcas , his voice sounding a long way off . |
| 32 | Wilson and Jones , in their investigations of this effect , did not test the carcinogens on cells , but on DNA extracted from cells and treated so as to make it mimic the methylated DNA of a dividing cell . |
| 33 | I have settled the succession by English law and not by Welsh , to make it hold the firmer , and stop their mouths from questioning it . |
| 34 | But this difficulty is not enough to make us abandon the theory . |
| 35 | It is perfectly true that there is nothing conclusively in the poem to make us identify the first stair with Dante 's Inferno , the second with his Purgatorio , the third with Paradiso ; as there is not ( a more piercing uncertainty ) anything to determine for us whether ‘ the broadbacked figure drest in blue and green ’ , with his ‘ music of the flute ’ , is an image of what must be renounced in order to achieve Paradise , or else an image of how terrestrial life can most nearly attain the paradisal . |
| 36 | This single observation is not enough in itself to make us accept the assertions of differentiation theory — there are , it turns out , a number of possible interpretations . |