Example sentences of "it make [adj] " in BNC.

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1 When you 're on it make sure you believe what you 're saying !
2 With the arrival of scientific methods in the twentieth century , we have been able to determine the essential nature of a healthy diet , and with it make dietary changes based on knowledge .
3 A second visionary experience was required to create the world of the archetypal stage , the skene , and with it make true drama possible .
4 Medical evidence shows using DSE is not associated with damage to eyes and eyesight nor does it make existing defects worse .
5 Did it make inessential demands on the teacher ? 12 .
6 The only real characteristic of each day was that it was the same as the day before and to give any account of such days in strict sequence would make as tedious reading as it made tedious living .
7 It made sad reading , with five entire families from her street numbered among the dead .
8 First , it developed the concept of integrated and comprehensive provision ; secondly , in making a connection between school and wage-earning ‘ it successfully rendered the transition as a social and educational process ; thirdly , it made vocational guidance and after-care appear to be essential features of any youth employment scheme ; fourthly , it showed that the service could offer significant opportunities for exercising a personal influence over the adolescent and his family .
9 Also , it made extra work for the cook .
10 At the meeting the SOC finally ceased its efforts to amend the UN draft plan so that it made explicit mention of " genocide " , in reference to the appalling human rights record of the Khmer Rouge government of the late 1970s .
11 The creation of the autonomous region had been opposed by the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNFL ) , the largest of the separatist guerrilla organizations , on the grounds that it made insufficient concessions to Moslem autonomy and failed to meet the terms of the 1976 Tripoli Accord [ see p. 28440 ] .
12 The invention of printing , a key technical stage in the technology of distribution , had remarkable early effects in that it made technical distribution much easier but in conditions of relatively unaltered social distribution .
13 From my discussions with British Rail , I know that it made specific proposals for the diversion of at least four of the crossings and that the Ramblers Association objected to them all .
14 Expensive jewellery and make-up completed the display of wealth , though it made Huy self-conscious and uneasy .
15 It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign .
16 It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign .
17 By purporting to de-interpret them by removing the excrescences of later interpretations it made possible a reinterpretation which allowed mythology to be seen again as something that while still existing on the level of the most civilized and polished communication kept speaking of what it had sprung from — men 's basic needs and desires .
18 This development was important because it made possible the invention of the domestic clock and also the watch .
19 Invented in the late 18th century , it made possible large schools with a wide range of age and ability , that could be run by a small complement of teachers .
20 But , for Canterbury , it made possible the appointment of a new prior , and Anselm appointed Ernulf , who was one of Lanfranc 's men , but of a very different stamp from his predecessor .
21 The economic significance of this division was that it made possible a very high rate of saving .
22 Electricity continued to replace steam-powered mechanical drives , and the subdivision of power which it made possible remained a fundamentally attractive characteristic .
23 In financing the development at home and abroad of the railways , it made possible the enormous growth in the production first of iron , later of steel , which characterised the secondary stage of the Industrial Revolution and guaranteed it as an irreversible change .
24 It made possible both Lenin 's defeat of revisionism and the adventurism of hot-headed figures such as Bogdanov , and the dissemination among advanced workers of the scientific understanding of the laws of history discovered by Marx and developed by Lenin .
25 This head felt that the re-expression and development of ideas which IT made possible allowed every pupil the chance to have second thoughts .
26 But Luke only nodded , as if it made perfect sense .
27 In the relatively affluent days of the 70s and early 80s leisure centres , squash courts and swimming pools sprang up all over the place , much of it made available through international funds .
28 It made pre-tax profits of 95.3 billion roubles in the year ending on January 1st 1993 ( $141m , at the average exchange rate for 1992 ) .
29 In 1992 it made pre-tax profits of £4.6m on sales of £80m .
30 Brewin was sold to management by Scandinavian Bank for about £6 million last year , when it made pre-tax profits of £1.4 million on turnover of £14.4 million .
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