Example sentences of "to the [noun] make [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having secured Theodora 's obedience , however , he left it to the Archdeacon to make his wishes clear . |
| 2 | The amendment to the concession makes it clear that the concession does not have that effect . |
| 3 | The Spirit is his parting gift to the Church to make his presence as real to them as if they were listening to him teaching beside the Sea of Galilee : and the Spirit can do more for us than ever Jesus could have done had we been his contemporaries . |
| 4 | Paragraph 2.9 of the Code of Practice to the Act makes it clear that a person can be detained on the basis of a known history of mental illness following non-compliance with medication . |
| 5 | In the 1980s we are still sufficiently close to the Occupation to make it difficult to assess some of the longer term significances of its reforms . |
| 6 | Yet the sequel to the story makes it quite plain that this appalling feast of destruction was in accordance with God 's will ( ch. |
| 7 | David Curry , Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries & Food , concluded that the balance of opinion was against the regulation and significant amendments would have to be made to the proposal to make it acceptable . |
| 8 | What is significant for understanding why to is used with the infinitive of reaction is that the notion of " evaluation " implies a judgement as to whether the event was opportune or not , and this judgement involves an implicit reference to the situation as it existed before the infinitive event occurred , i.e. to the factors making its occurrence either opportune or inopportune . |
| 9 | She came downstairs , she slopped all the way through to the kitchen made herself a cup of tea and sat |
| 10 | Jane Pargeter walked self-consciously to the kitchen to make herself a cup of tea : she had obviously decided she had drunk enough gin for the afternoon . |
| 11 | It 's up to the RFU to make it worth their while . |
| 12 | For every complaint that you have there may be 20 dissatisfied people that have n't actually come up to the school to make their feelings known — they do n't even tell you that they are upset . |
| 13 | The was a photographer who used to say , ‘ Catch a butterfly ’ to the girls to make them smile . |
| 14 | Untanned skin takes time for the natural melanin pigment to be triggered off by sunrays and to rise to the surface to make you look brown . |
| 15 | Furthermore the structures of the lexical entries have tended to be proprietary to the system making it impossible to exchange lexicons between systems . |
| 16 | The letter to the Hebrews makes it clear that the Old Testament sacrifice was at best an incomplete answer to the problem of sin . |
| 17 | We could specify in which hand the draw-sheet is to be held , which arm the nurse is to use to support the patient , the degree of tension to be applied to the draw-sheet to make it taut and smooth . |
| 18 | This facility is also open to the public making it possible to watch the enthusiasts and craftspersons at work . |
| 19 | The result might have been different if there had been a notice attached to the goods making it clear that these goods had nothing to do with the defendant 's business as a dealer in second-hand goods but had come from his home and that the sale of the goods was to be a private transaction . |
| 20 | Alternatively , feminist psychologists ' reduction of gender relations to the unconscious makes them see them as irrevocable . |
| 21 | This addition to the maps made them more useful , especially for agricultural purposes , but it entailed resurveying ground already covered and slowed the progress of subsequent work . |
| 22 | By killing and dividing the animals the parties to the treaty made it clear that the penalty for breaking the agreement was death . |
| 23 | My letter to The Times makes my own position clear . |
| 24 | Christina left Stephen a message before driving out to the airport to make her delivery . |
| 25 | Pitching it up to the batsman made it , quite often , unplayable . |
| 26 | If that sounds like standard talk , Back To The Planet make it seem heartfelt . |
| 27 | He went out to the lean-to make it . |
| 28 | Coffee was a nauseous substitute concocted from acorns ; bread had already been rationed by the beginning of 1915 to about 2 Ibs a week , and goodness knows what was added to the flour to make it so grey and gritty ! |
| 29 | Different kinds of opacity within a program were discussed earlier and these would seem to have quite different correlates in the sphere of consciousness : the lower level of language is almost totally inaccessible from the higher level ( unless special structural features are added to the language to make it accessible ) , in rather the way that the machine code of our brain , if there is one , is utterly inaccessible to me , thinking in English . |
| 30 | Their devotion to the group makes it less likely that they will think in creative ways that are tangential to , or radically different from , those of the group . |