Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] to make " in BNC.

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1 Ferry companies need to get their acts together to make ferries safe .
2 You can add objects together to make a complex outline or intersect the shapes to produce holes in one object with another .
3 The dream to join the two ramps together to make a 32ft wide superramp was finally realised this year and the work was completed in March .
4 His wife April just scrapes enough money together to make the hundred and fifty mile round trip to see him twice a week
5 Finally , we will add a fourth part below to make complete four-part harmony .
6 Lord Keith , however , employed his powers of patronage effectively to make the Elphinstone interest powerful enough to defy even Henry Dundas 's dominance of Scottish politics .
7 The Germans have long made a national sport of running long words together to make longer ones ; as have the Irish , eg in place names like Newtonabbey , Maguiresbridge and Patrickswell .
8 And that 's an encouraging line because those of us , and I include myself who am not always articulate , who ca n't always get the , the words together to make a sentence and finish it , can try nevertheless to come up with something which is interesting , can contain the ‘ Hey , this is for you , ’ for the audience , along the lines we 've been talking about yesterday .
9 How did you put all those pictures together to make a whole person ?
10 It joins the two pictures together to make one new picture .
11 Todd Swank , of Foundation , then decided to do the same and only retain his street skaters together to make a really small team .
12 The program then brings the images together to make one colour image .
13 Erm , I 've put a label A B C , in one cell , D E F in another cell , and in this cell B five , I 've got the formula , plus the three ampersand B four , and th the result of it is this longer label , if you join the two labels together to make this label A B C D E F. Anybody using ampersand at all ?
14 And , and er then that midwife would po call and see them perhaps one well they call at six months just to make sure ev ev everything was alright .
15 and then the second man he set he sat next to it with his arm over his shoulders just to make sure he was comfortable with the with as you say , the seat belt on as well you see , to secure him , and off the lads set , all the way across Hull Road right the way t across to Queen Anne 's .
16 We widened the steps slightly to make them a secure and comfortable width to walk and wheel a barrow down .
17 Meanwhile , the invention of new financial instruments may enable an institution both to make initial gains by charging high fees and , by virtue of its developing expertise , to make longer term excess profits .
18 They have to be poured with caution and skill to keep the slight yeast sediment out of the glass and the publican has to rotate his stock carefully to make sure the beer is served when it is in the peak of condition .
19 They revisited six months later to make further observations .
20 When I say ‘ relationship ’ I mean this in its purely formal sense ; there is no attempt here to make any claim about possible causal relationships between ideas and practice .
21 Nothing has happened since I came here 10 months ago to make me change my mind that this is the biggest club left in Britain .
22 We 're seeing the end of a long period of Cold War which effectively the West have won because they have kept their defences up , er and I think as Tom King , he was out here last week , has said we need to keep a strong force here to make sure that the Soviets keep their side of the bargain and er start a withdrawal at some stage .
23 We 're going to have guards there to make sure they do n't nick the knives .
24 In fact , he made it a rule never to make any friend who could not be useful to him .
25 She said no I think I 'll go home I 'll be alright , so I took her back home about eleven and erm erm I kept phoning her every hour on the hour just to make sure she 's alright , then I said I want you just to promise me one thing you 're not do anything silly , I 'm here , I do n't care what it takes , I 'm here , so she said alright then , so I said it 'll break mum 's heart it 'll break dad 's heart ,
26 Perhaps these really were ‘ men who had high purposes ’ , as North described McFarlane and Poindexter , men who ‘ were trying their level best to make this world a better place . ’
27 ‘ We are doing our level best to make sure all the election information arrives , but we are sending out something like 100 million items across the country . ’
28 It reminded me of when I used to give people money just to make them go away again .
29 She 'll be out in ten minutes , but I 'll pinch some loose skin just to make sure there 's no reaction . ’
30 The stages were so enormous — about 60 feet across — that you had to poke out a bit of noise just to make yourself heard .
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