Example sentences of "make [pron] appear that " in BNC.

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1 Not least , the absence of any serious rationing of consumer goods , and the large number of exemptions from military service for skilled workers and farmers made it appear that the regime was well in control of developments , did not fear a war on the 1914–18 scale , and was even rather generous in its provisioning arrangements .
2 This made it appear that he threw the ball when bowling at his fastest ; when he reduced his pace he was relatively innocuous .
3 Examples like these make it appear that the performance of manufacturers ' software can always be bettered .
4 He argues the company has tried to monopolise the market by convincing customers that its relational database management system is effectively the computer , making it appear that all other functions and tasks the user may want to perform are bound tightly to the database — requirements that can only be met by other Oracle products .
5 By promising the Jacobites that he would seek to get James Francis Stuart acknowledged as Anne 's successor , he not only won Jacobite support at home , but was also able to neutralise the Jacobite threat abroad , by making it appear that there was no point in St Germain or the French attempting an invasion .
6 The Reich had been injecting money into Danzig to make it appear that Forster and his pals were able to find the resources to create employment projects through their superior management skills .
7 For we are taught both by the words of worthy men of old and by our experience that this is a most certain sign , and it has been found that even if she be urged and exhorted by solemn conjurations to shed tears , if she be a witch she will not be able to weep : although she will assume a tearful aspect and smear her cheeks and eyes with spittle to make it appear that she is weeping ; wherefore she must be closely watched by the attendants .
8 It was possible that Riddle had committed suicide in such a way as to make it appear that he had been murdered .
9 I make sure , then prepare to leave , but I want to make it appear that I entered and left the church like a ghost .
10 Mrs. Hamblin had not intended to make it appear that the car belonged to the trader .
11 And Eddie Gilfoyle , who had been having an affair , tried to make it appear that she 'd committed suicide , it was alleged .
12 The above research on car parking makes it appear that memory in such situations is remarkably similar to memory in more traditional laboratory paradigms .
13 Extra input current drawn through the troublesome capacitance C amounts to From the point of view of the input terminals , the presence of capacitance C makes it appear that there is additional reactive impedance bridging the input terminals .
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