Example sentences of "to make it [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain Dr Richard Hughes introduced modifications into Hahnemann 's original teachings in order to popularize homoeopathy and to make it simpler to prescribe . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We wanted to make it simpler for people to understand . |
| 4 | In the carve gybe this is a good thing since a competent windsurfer will cut many corners of the original technique to make it smoother . |
| 5 | The above example illustrates how conjunctions which are typically used in Arabic discourse are added to a translation to make it smoother , even when no conjunctions are used in the source text . |
| 6 | A Barry Lavety goal earned both points against Ayr United and enabled the Paisley club to make it tighter with the three clubs above them all dropping a point each . |
| 7 | Getting a Tory to say what he believes — and , to make it worse , what he knows you know he believes — is about as daunting as drawing teeth . |
| 8 | To make it worse , I think Paul had gone three shots ahead , at eight-under as he again played the first nine well . |
| 9 | Make a special note of anything that is unexpected such as a sore throat that is better for swallowing solid food — normally one would expect this to make it worse . |
| 10 | To make it worse , they feel guilty about it ; they think they are failures to themselves , traitors to their sex and threats to their babies . |
| 11 | To make it worse , the Connor bitch was on a fancied runner in the big race . |
| 12 | Then , just to make it worse , I went into the SAS . |
| 13 | I do n't want any rows to make it worse for him . ’ |
| 14 | But the poverty trap for those who go from unemployment to a low paid job is already severe and yesterday 's measures seem likely to make it worse . |
| 15 | But the poverty trap for those who go from unemployment to a low-paid job is already severe and yesterday 's measures seem likely to make it worse . |
| 16 | Or your last option is to do what the good folk at the training agency have done , which is they claim that the today marker is not erm , sturdy enough , so they superglue the er , the two markers together , to make it thicker . |
| 17 | I would say I think that 's a very good point chairman now can we ask perhaps either our groundsman or or or whatever to look at it to see if something to make it safer for these these people to er get access to . |
| 18 | Jay so wanted to make it better , but how ? |
| 19 | It is frustrating as a producer , when you have so many ideas that are worth trying to make it better . ’ |
| 20 | It is not a perfect country ( there never was one ) and we must continue working to make it better . |
| 21 | He probably knows already that his spelling is weak : what he wants to be told is how to make it better . |
| 22 | But we want to make it better , to give you more of what you want . |
| 23 | ‘ But I know how to make it better , too . |
| 24 | Next year we 'll certainly be back and we 've certainly got a lot more plans to make it better . ’ |
| 25 | You tell me what hurts and I 'll know how to make it better . |
| 26 | I took it into to make it bigger , right , it was mum 's , so they said well we 've got to put valuation on it to send it away , so I said well I have n't got a clue , so they wrote down a thousand pound and I thought never in all this world . |
| 27 | Hence it was important to reduce levels of grant to make it clearer to voters what services actually cost . |
| 28 | The opportunity has been taken in the new version to rewrite the material , to make it clearer and more accessible for the reader . |
| 29 | This is an important and also a difficult point , so let me try to make it clearer . |
| 30 | Together they negotiate a solution to the problem , the first speaker A asking the second B to repair the term by making it more specific , and the second several times repairing his own explanation to make it clearer ( capitals indicate stress ) : |