Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [adv] to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such a case the only way to make sense of the rule that the buyer must bear the loss is still to make him pay whilst allowing him to take whatever remains of the goods . |
| 2 | Her only other fashion rule is always to make sure her shoes and tights are the same colour , making her 5ft 5 inches seem to stretch up just a little further . |
| 3 | Headline is here to make a profit . |
| 4 | The big creatures stand quite high from the background , but this depth of cutting is only to make the contours clear ; the surface is a flat plane , details lightly modelled or engraved on it . |
| 5 | This range varies for different purposes , but the aim is always to make it as wide as possible . |
| 6 | I mean your own aim is really to make yourself superfluous in the end . |
| 7 | The job of the chant leader is simply to make sure that ‘ Shit ! ’ comes in at exactly the right time . |
| 8 | This method is not very satisfactory when the point is precisely to make generalisations about group behaviour , as in the case of language and sex research . |
| 9 | Part of the training is here to make that point very clear : the aircraft/avionics interface is designed in such a way that there can be no failure which will end in loss of control authority , but one must of course invest time and effort to understand the procedures . |
| 10 | The nurse is there to make the nursing contribution to the solution , amelioration or prevention of the patients ' actual or potential problems . |
| 11 | I 'm entitled to this because I am a taxpayer , and the system is there to make sure that taxpayers get the treatment they need . ’ |
| 12 | The answer to the problem is surely to make sure that all MDs are supervised , registered , and properly conducted . |
| 13 | Although we do n't have one for review , the idea is obviously to make full use of the stereo Alesis delay on gigs small enough not to need further amplification . |
| 14 | The latter comes in only when this mechanism is no longer operative , when it fails to apply , and the role of the preposition is then to make up for the inoperative movement of incidence … |
| 15 | The Multiprotocol Networking Transport Architecture 's task is simply to make applications independent of any particular network transport layer . |