Example sentences of "[noun] to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | monitor current prescriptions to make sure that children are not using them for their first experiments with drugs . |
| 2 | He used the best available craftsmen to make beautiful rusticated quoin stones , decorated iron rainwater heads , bolection moulded panelling and door surrounds with broken pediments over , a plaster ceiling on the landing with swags and scrolled foliage , and a grand segmental pediment over the front door . |
| 3 | I rely on you gentlemen to make sure |
| 4 | All he needed , he sometimes thought , was a trunk to make him look exactly like an elephant . |
| 5 | Several films of the 1930s were to deal with the very real and widely condemned phenomenon of lynching and in 1935 MGM had finally allowed their imported genius Fritz Lang to make this story after several years of waiting . |
| 6 | The altering of the landscape in order to achieve better energies at a site may be a simple matter , like tending a spring to make sure it continues to Mow freely , or planting trees at a sacred spot . |
| 7 | O'Brien suspects northern influence was brought to bear on Dick Spring to make him change his tune . |
| 8 | He had his living to make and he came to Port Talbot to make it as a teacher . |
| 9 | The barrier is now visible to both sides and can be referred to : " I would not waste my time selling a policy that was no good because the effort required would be too great — I have a living to make . |
| 10 | ‘ I have the living to make , you know . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You have a very positive standing , my dear young lady , ’ said Mr Stanforth patiently , and perhaps a little patronisingly , too , for this was where money entered into the reckoning , and very young concert artists and music teachers with a living to make must surely react to the alluring image . |
| 12 | From their point of view you are just a loss making nuisance and they have a living to make . |
| 13 | He has a living to make . |
| 14 | This has enabled authors to make claims and counter claims about the importance of different variables in the absence of any sustained efforts to discover which are directly and which are artefactually related to abuse . |
| 15 | This has led some authors to make Sivapithecus a human ancestor , and others to recognize the affinities of these fossil genera with the orang-utan but provide evidence linking the orang clade with humans . |
| 16 | These trees , in full sunlight , were growing more vigorously than the forest trees and produced enough pods to make our life easier . |
| 17 | Only a few of these had pods , but here and elsewhere we found enough pods to make an important observation : all the wild cocoa throughout the Amazon region of Ecuador shares a common set of genetically determined characteristics including white seeds , very rough-surfaced yellow pods , and the absence of red pigmentation in the leaves . |
| 18 | It also asked large company clients to make sure that black and Asian lawyers get at least 5% of their work . |
| 19 | Counselling enables clients to make their own decisions and find their own solutions |
| 20 | There are many fertility treatments available to childless couples , and fertility counselling aims to enable clients to make an informed choice . |
| 21 | Secondly , the inclusive approach may act as a positive encouragement to clients to make use of legal services . |
| 22 | It 's becoming the fashion among big clients to make lawyers pitch for their custom . |
| 23 | This requires would-be clients to make an initial minimum deposit of $10,000 — £7,150 — pay an annual account maintenance charge of $100 , plus an additional $5 a month if the account falls below $5,000 ( which can be avoided by placing two commissionable trades a year ) . |
| 24 | He opened his mouth to make an acid retort , and then remembered that the sura which permitted captives to be enslaved also went to considerable lengths to provide laws for their welfare . |
| 25 | Helpless in her pinioned position , she opened her mouth to make a cutting retort and met Roman 's questing finger , slowly outlining her mouth , feathering indescribable sensations over the surface of her skin , then sliding between her lips and parting them with such lazy insistence that a shiver of reaction made her tremble all over . |
| 26 | She opened her mouth to make a suitably cutting retort , then closed it abruptly as she realised . |
| 27 | But although she opened her mouth to make it quite clear to her infuriating parent that she was not , never would be , and never wanted to even think about being in love with Luke Hunter , somehow the words would n't come . |
| 28 | First she opens one of his eyelids to check the pupil , then she puts her finger inside his mouth to make sure his tongue does not block the airway . |
| 29 | Determined to change the conversation , she opened her mouth to make a remark about the surrounding countryside , but he said suddenly , ‘ It 's too much to hope that a beautiful girl like you has had no experience . |
| 30 | Fabia opened her mouth to make some kind of sophisticated reply , but her heart was racing so much — nobody had even paid her such an extravagant compliment before , and yet made it sound true and sincere , and not extravagant at all — that she could think of nothing to say . |