Example sentences of "making [pron] [vb infin] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibilities for recasting the UK accounts are being examined , with the intention of making them reflect the real resource use , or output contribution , of the public sector , rather than simply its share of expenditure . |
| 2 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 3 | One of the first problems faced by the Republic was that most of the colonies outside New England were loyal to the Stuart monarchs , and so in the early 1650s considerable effort had to be put into making them accept the new government . |
| 4 | THE central plank of the bill is the curb on the country 's biggest industrial polluters by making them use the best available technology to cut discharges . |
| 5 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 6 | It will not fight by raising its wings and clashing its talons and making noise ; but quietly , cleverly , making you see the Men as friends , making you fear the wide world outside , so that when opportunity comes you will not take it as you should but hide behind excuses like ‘ The time is n't right yet ’ or ‘ I do n't think I can do that ’ . |
| 7 | He blames Attorney General Sir Nicholas Lyell for making him sign the public immunity certificate . |
| 8 | They caught him unprepared , before he could blank out his mind , making him remember the last time he had heard that sort of ringing , last Sunday . |