Example sentences of "make [pron] [vb infin] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever made you think that the idea — of course quite impossible , though for the sake of argument we will not imagine it so — myself and Edward going away together was simply unconventional . |
| 2 | The sole exception to this seems to be in the case of co-ordination of whole clauses , where the co-ordination would be a matter of like treatment in respect of assertoric or imperative or interrogative force ( so that co-ordinations of , say , a command and a statement , if they ever occur , sound odd , or make one feel that the speaker has switched constructions in the middle of a sentence ) . |
| 3 | According to Eadmer , it was a small incident which opened Anselm 's eyes to the true state of affairs , and made him realize that the king would in no circumstances allow him to take any action beyond the routine of his episcopal duties . |
| 4 | Reuben Haredale 's steward , who murders his master for money , and also the latter 's gardener in circumstances that shall make it seem that the body , when discovered , is that of Rudge himself . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Examples like these make it appear that the performance of manufacturers ' software can always be bettered . |
| 7 | It is not enough to make me forget that the owl remains elsewhere . |
| 8 | If our propaganda has failed , it has failed because we have been unable to arouse the British people in such a way as to make them feel that the cause of Republican Spain was their cause in such a measure that they would take every risk , even the risk of war to make the Republican cause in Spain prevail . |
| 9 | It was all a smokescreen to make them believe that the Clarion Call had been lost at sea . |
| 10 | That 's what makes me think that the man may have been a foreigner perhaps even killed on the other side of the channel . " |
| 11 | If it is thought that it means that any decision should be taken at the lowest possible level , that unfortunately makes me believe that the concept is not all that it is cracked up to be , and for a number of reasons . |
| 12 | Then he looked at the Curator , straight into his eyes to make him understand that the person he was thinking of was himself . |
| 13 | Mrs. Hamblin had not intended to make it appear that the car belonged to the trader . |
| 14 | Is the proliferation of training schemes and employment agencies merely a move a ) to reduce unemployment statistics b ) to make it seem that the government is doing something without it having to positively intervene economically in a massive problem ? |
| 15 | Our quarrel is with the notion that underpins it , namely that methods are atheoretical which makes it seem that the choice of a research method is governed by technical criteria . |
| 16 | His example makes it seem that the circle is not simply a detachable result of , or something which can be considered in isolation from , certain motions , but rather something whose very nature and properties are essentially tied up with its method of production . |
| 17 | This example makes it seem that the consumer price is raised by the full amount of the tax . |
| 18 | The excitement of The Place of the Lion is in its power to shake the reader up — to make us feel that the world is not the place we thought it was . |
| 19 | Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real , when in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real , but of the order of the hyperreal and of simulation " . |
| 20 | Then the policeman continued , ‘ If the method was copied in order to make us believe that the crime was committed by the killer of the other girls , then our new killer is either clumsy , or stupid . ’ |