Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council 's economic development committee agreed yesterday to make a maximum contribution of £25,000 to help fund the survey which is to be carried out by Quayle Munro , an Edinburgh-based investment and venture capital organisation . |
| 2 | The curator , John Elderfield , muses on the rival reputations of Matisse and Picasso and suggests that Matisse 's real influence has yet to make itself felt : ‘ I am going to be very interested to see whether this exhibition will have an effect on contemporary painting ’ |
| 3 | Rites of passage designed solely to make transition bearable , he wrote . |
| 4 | However , in most cases that problem could be overcome , for example , in an appropriate case by the protector flying overseas to make the appropriate decisions and consider the appropriate proposals . |
| 5 | Long-term employment also allows management to decide rationally to make large-scale investments in upgrading the skills of their workforce and in training them , secure in the knowledge that the investment will earn them a return , rather than accrue to someone else who succeeds in poaching the labour away . |
| 6 | Capitalism has yet to make high quality beefsteak available on a regular basis for all the inhabitants of the rich countries , let alone those in the poor countries . |
| 7 | A graphical interface designed both to make the operation of software simpler for the non-expert and to allow programs to communicate with one another . |
| 8 | The war began finally to make sense . |
| 9 | Many of the children had never been away from home before and there were inevitable bouts of homesickness but the Dreamflight team worked hard to make them feel at ease . |
| 10 | They go together the chlorine and sodium go together to make the sodium chloride and the H and the O H go together and make the water . |
| 11 | To a publisher or bookseller working hard to make a living in a very chancy occupation time spent answering questions from a researcher who has never himself worked in a commercial business may seem to be time wasted . |
| 12 | The court has still to make its final decision . ’ |
| 13 | In fact , however , their very rarity served only to make the procedure arbitrary in the extreme and , indeed , may have added to the reluctance of owners to offer land for development at all . |
| 14 | A settlor had only to make sure that he chose a word which made clear an intention on his part that a trust obligation should arise in the trustee . |
| 15 | Finally , give the subordinate authority to go away to make the final choice and implement any action . |
| 16 | While the Cabinet has yet to make final decisions , ministers seemed set to approve a pay freeze . |
| 17 | While the Cabinet has yet to make final decisions , ministers seemed set to approve a pay freeze . |
| 18 | Felton declines to comment on the cost of producing a magazine lavish enough to make many editors green with envy , but says Shell underwrites 50 to 70 per cent of it . |
| 19 | Despite promises of reductions in sulphur , the British Government has yet to make much progress . |
| 20 | The ministry of agriculture has carried out successful trials on the new tests but says the government has yet to make a final decision on wether to fully adopt the new system . |
| 21 | For the next five minutes , its full beam still on , the car kept behind them , even when the road widened enough to make passing possible . |
| 22 | Even the current world recession has left Singapore virtually unscathed because after the 1985/86 slump , the government worked hard to make the economy less dependent on single industries , such as electronics , or certain countries , such as the US . |
| 23 | She had n't really believed him , but so much of her new life had still to make sense to her that she had not challenged his statement . |
| 24 | The virus has yet to make much headway in the wider community . |
| 25 | Triton shells are frequently found in shrines , and with the narrow end cut away to make a mouthpiece . |
| 26 | Individuals and corporate entities who use inside information do so to make money . |
| 27 | However , there are many areas such as complex tabulated material , scientific equations and formulae and the use of non-latin alphabets where desktop publishing has yet to make any sort of impact at all . |
| 28 | Such cases illustrate the capacity of English judges prospectively to make law and reveal a sharp bifurcation between the decision in a particular case and the rule of law which it supports . |
| 29 | The tabloid press tries hard to make a Home Secretary 's life a misery . |
| 30 | The former Scarborough player has yet to make his first-team debut for Boro following a £40,000 transfer last summer . |