Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] is to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | The town of Bolton has just announced that it is to make its football hero , Nat Lofthouse , a freeman of the borough . |
| 2 | On Humberside , Sandtoft has recently announced that it is to make a machine-pressed plain tile for the first time . |
| 3 | Ford of Europe announced that it is to make over 10,000 job cuts by the end of 1993 , about 40% of which are expected to be in the UK . |
| 4 | Shrugging off the distressing four-day kidnapping ordeal of its president , Adobe Systems Inc , Mountain View , California has come out with a whole string of announcements , headlined by the news that it is to make the Display PostScript system available to users of Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations . |
| 5 | Teacher support groups are increasingly being set up to provide the opportunity for greater honesty , and it can be less threatening for people who feel isolated to join one of these than it is to make individual overtures within their own staffroom . |
| 6 | If she is severely disturbed emotionally , above the level normally expected in bereavement , and if she can not sleep , he may prescribe tranquillisers and a night sedative ; but this will usually be only for a limited period to help her over a particularly bad patch , as he will not want her to become addicted to these drugs , which if taken for too long may delay the normal grieving process which she will need to experience if she is to make a satisfactory recovery . |
| 7 | The artist may live passionately through every brush-stroke , but the weaver can not — she needs a clear head and a sense of the goal before her if she is to make order and substance out of the strands with which she works . |
| 8 | By dropping the novel and other kinds of drama , more time would be provided for the extensive reading of poetry which is so essential if one is to make sense of any one poem . |
| 9 | It is not easy to achieve this effect if they do not take into account the dimension and spacing of the steps as well as their particular quality , which must be in tune with the music if it is to make sense . |
| 10 | Every movement on stage has to be a conscious effort on the dancer 's part if it is to make its proper impact . |
| 11 | If it is to make good on Mr Bush 's hope that it may be possible to ‘ settle the conflicts that divide the Arabs from Israel ’ , it will have to convince the Israelis that they can be secure even shorn of the occupied territories . |
| 12 | Achieving a standstill is vital for Heron if it is to make headway in rescheduling its debt . |
| 13 | The profession will have to take positive steps if it is to make any progress in bridging the expectation gap . |
| 14 | The Pratt Green Trust seeks to represent the interests of the churches in this area , but needs wider support from the Church if it is to make much progress . |
| 15 | It would be useless to pretend that identity of non-meanings , if it is to make sense , ought to be so explicable and then criticise this idea on the grounds that it can not be so explained . |
| 16 | In my view it is clear that the party is very much in search of a leader , very anxious , if it is to make an adequate showing at the next general election , over the fact that it needs a symbol of more meaning to the mass electorate than Mr Attlee . |
| 17 | Adams showed the authority and leadership you would expect from a defender who has won 17 caps at senior level but in World Cup terms the most significant performance came from Gascoigne , who cut out the asides and showed some of the tactical discipline he has to acquire if he is to make the most of his natural talent in international football . |
| 18 | Mr Stern 's costings tell him it is not worth paying more than £750/acre for bare arable land if he is to make a reasonable living . |
| 19 | Ben Clarke , of Bath , has the awesome task of dislodging Dean Richards at No 8 if he is to make his England debut on Saturday . |
| 20 | In other words , the sceptic , if he is to make himself understood , can not avoid relying on the conceptual scheme that he is overtly attacking , and if so , his argument collapses before it can even get off the ground . |