Example sentences of "to make it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pride alone should have made her indifferent to Luke 's touch , at the very least ; old hatred and new resentment ought to make it repulsive . |
| 2 | You need at least 22 people to start a union , around 50 to make it worthwhile and , by law , an overall maximum of 5,000 . |
| 3 | Many birds lose the power of flight — for there are no large predators to make it worthwhile . |
| 4 | That would appear to make it worthwhile for science to be a little more lenient with the serious UFO researchers and their data . |
| 5 | Those in back can adjust the rake of the split backrests and height of the rear cushions electrically , but the degree of adjustment is insufficient to make it worthwhile . |
| 6 | It is clear that what Bukharin had in mind here was that the ‘ town ’ must provide consumer goods and means of production to agriculture on such a scale as to make it worthwhile for the peasants to produce more than for their own immediate needs . |
| 7 | And I 'll tell you , sooner or later it 's going to occur to someone you could be useful ; useful enough to make it worthwhile taking out that dog . |
| 8 | Any AME who has to re-equip will have to do more than that to make it worthwhile . |
| 9 | With some 2,000 licencees worldwide it reckons Stardent/AVS installations account for no more than 10% of its base — too few to make it worthwhile porting future versions of AVS onto old Stardent kit . |
| 10 | Setting up the program can be time-consuming — you have to back up your entire hard disk , repartition it and encrypt it — so you 'd have to have some really important data on your machine to make it worthwhile . |
| 11 | More sensibly , it is quite possible that the manager is not earning returns as high as shareholders would like , yet that because it is costly for shareholders to gain enough additional information to improve the situation sufficiently to make it worthwhile whilst acting rationally , they appear passive . |
| 12 | In most cases , there are insufficient surviving remains to make it worthwhile conserving the site for public display : if it has been fully excavated , all that may remain to be seen are , literally , a few depressions in the natural subsoil , even if what was excavated above was quite spectacular . |
| 13 | I can claim that I did , and that I never breached that trust , assuming that I had any information of a sufficiently intriguing character to make it worthwhile betraying a friend . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , enough weight had been given by several sources to make it worthwhile checking . |
| 15 | And people think that you work when you like , when it fits in , like , with homework , but I have to work every minute to make enough to make it worthwhile . ’ |
| 16 | The following day James Molyneaux , the leader of the Official Ulster Unionist Party ( OUP ) , said that he thought there was enough in Brooke 's speech " to make it worthwhile for us to meet him " , although along with other unionist politicians in Northern Ireland he reportedly remained adamant that the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 had to be suspended before talks could be opened . |
| 17 | Amaranth had repeated enough of what Harvey had told her about the motorway to make it worthwhile telephoning his partner in Arden to make local inquiries . |
| 18 | In order to make it worthwhile for people to buy bills , therefore , they must be sold below their face value ( i.e. at a discount ) . |
| 19 | Erm we 're trying to have beer put on the price each time now to make it worthwhile so you get a chance of getting your money back . |
| 20 | Now , as the bloke said there , the only way you can do that with people coming in from the outside is that British Gas have got to keep pushing their prices up to make it worthwhile for somebody else to come in . |
| 21 | to make it w- , to make it , to make it worthwhile . |
| 22 | I knew that soon I would have to come to grips with what had happened , to wring some meaning out of it to make it endurable ; but for the moment I simply could n't bear to think about it . |
| 23 | Then Boon and Steve Waugh put on 50 , when the latter edged Ambrose to Williams to make it 114-2 . |
| 24 | I only meant to make it welcoming and nice . |
| 25 | In Britain Dr Richard Hughes introduced modifications into Hahnemann 's original teachings in order to popularize homoeopathy and to make it simpler to prescribe . |
| 26 | P-E International Plc has won the £150,000 contract to help the UK Inland Revenue with the implementation of the proposed reforms of personal tax assessment : in the budget , Chancellor Norman Lamont announced an overhaul of the tax return and payment process to make it simpler and fairer and offer the option of self-assessment and the revised system is scheduled to be in place by the 1996-7 tax year . |
| 27 | We wanted to make it simpler for people to understand . |
| 28 | Yavlinsky refused Gorbachev 's invitation to the G-7 summit because , he claimed , his programme had been weakened too much to make it viable . |
| 29 | It was sold to the Housing Association at a reduced value in order to make it viable . |
| 30 | Toughened glass is glass which has been heat treated to make it four to five times stronger than normal glass , but which gives it the characteristic that , should it break , it does so in harmless tiny fragments rather than the dangerous slivers associated with normal glass . |