Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] and to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | A committee was appointed to consider the plans , to choose a site for the infirmary and to make other recommendations ; it included the Duke of Bedford , Mr. Osborn , Mr. Pym , Mr. Higgins of Turvey , Lord John Russell , Samuel Whitbread and Dr. Yeats — the latter a local physician . |
| 2 | The move is seen as a way of helping to get the Argentinian privatisation programme off the ground and to make some inroads into the country 's foreign debt , which currently totals some $60billion . |
| 3 | The solvent used tends to be methylene chloride thickened with SCMC to a gel consistency to slow down the evaporation of the solvent and to make the product easy to apply . |
| 4 | Some of these new Jacobean pulpits were raised to a great height and topped by impressive sounding-boards in order both to emphasize the importance of the sermon and to make the preacher visible above the rows of high-backed pews . |
| 5 | Although the courts might be willing to imply terms , for example that the licensee or " purchaser " of such systems owns the copyright in any output , it is obviously more sensible to recognize the difficulties associated with this part of the Act and to make suitable contractual provision for ownership ( as opposed to authorship ) of computer output . |
| 6 | Yet it is not uncommon for people who can not get to sleep , or who have woken up , to get up in the middle of the night and to make themselves a snack because they are hungry . |
| 7 | The Japan Times of Jan. 8 , 1990 , reported that , notwithstanding political advances towards the LDP by Komeito , Komeito and the DSP had agreed to increase co-operation in advance of the elections and to make the " utmost effort " to facilitate meetings and discussions between leaders of the four non-communist opposition parties . |
| 8 | Such an agency generates a repulsive force which eventually becomes so strong as to halt the contraction of the object and to make it ‘ bounce ’ . |
| 9 | The oboe tends to impoverish the tone of the violins and to make it sound thin and pinched . |
| 10 | I bear you no ill will , for well I found the tables entirely turned upon me , and that I was in far ore danger from you than you were from me for I was just upon resolving to defy all the censures of the world and to make you publicly and openly my wife . " |
| 11 | In those circumstances , it was thought right to reduce some of the activities of the RNR and to make them more relevant to the future . |
| 12 | It should then be for the official aircraft accident investigating authority to establish the cause of the accident and to make recommendations for avoiding similar accidents in the future , and it should be for the civil courts to decide who is liable to pay damages and to whom . |
| 13 | They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing . |
| 14 | He wrote on various subjects , all of them with one aim in view , namely to keep his name before the public and to make sure that his ideas were not allowed to disappear from circulation . |
| 15 | Long necks and long legs enable the birds to both keep a wary eye over the landscape and to make a speedy departure should they be threatened . |
| 16 | When this was fed back to the operators , they were quickly able to see how their actions were contributing to the effluent and to make substantial reductions in the amount of ammonia leaving the plant . |
| 17 | to consider applications for places on the Course and to make offers , invite for interview or take other action as appropriate ; |
| 18 | Frequently this involves turning steeply at low speed to keep the radius of turn to a minimum and to make use of the narrow cores of lift . |
| 19 | Well I mean I can assure them that the , the National Rivers Authority in the Thames region is monitoring rivers on a daily basis throughout the year and that we would hope to deal with pollution incidents as they occur , and we would hope with our monitoring and the pressure we put on third parties to er actually over the years , to improve things from what they are at the moment and to make things better . |
| 20 | The two and a half hour plenary session this afternoon will provide a forum to bring the insights of the workshops to everyone at the conference and to make practical suggestions for the way forward . |