Example sentences of "make it [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Urban motorways have proved no solution to Britain 's chronic traffic congestion — indeed some say they have made it worse . |
| 2 | The ‘ new conservatives ’ have made it worse by arguing , incorrectly as it happens , that since the children of the élite for the most part ( and for both genetic and environmental reasons ) become the élite , then the elaborate process of selection may as well be shortened and a plain hereditary principle reintroduced . |
| 3 | Mr. Clark had to get a bricklayer to repair the walls that were broken and he complained that although the schoolmaster was in attendance the whole time , the boys had made it worse than it was before . |
| 4 | Not only have they made it worse , they knew they would ; even if they genuinely thought their policies were somehow better for Britain as a whole , they knew damn well they 'd put hundreds of thousands of people out of work , and Saatchi & Saatchi must have known that , too , if they 'd bothered to think . |
| 5 | And now we 've made it a fire door it 's made it worse . |
| 6 | She 'd made it worse . |
| 7 | and the drought of course has made it worse |
| 8 | I should 've she made it worse , she started slapping her jaw you should n't hit your man one punch jaw and mouth , his jaw and nose and everything . |
| 9 | Section two , there was a revised estimate for nineteen ninety two ninety three and there are two main points to mention , firstly members will see that the revised estimates in total are less than the original estimates and this is because affording interest rates have made it cheaper to service the outstanding debt from previous years ' capital programmes . |
| 10 | If he had written it in letters of fire he could n't have made it plainer . |
| 11 | Gesner had made it better than it was and had carried Ingrid through most of her numbers . |
| 12 | All it meant was I could attack the trial in the job , which would have made it better for me , or from outside the job . ’ |
| 13 | This was partly because the increasing integration of world capital markets has made it easier to finance current-account deficits . |
| 14 | It would have made it easier to help you , and I venture the opinion that our servants feel well treated . |
| 15 | I think you have something definite to say — and I hope I have made it easier for you to say it . ’ |
| 16 | It is now fairly certain that the Australia antigen represents part of the virus responsible for type B hepatitis and its discovery has made it easier to determine the modes of transmission and the presence of a ‘ carrier ’ state , in which the infected person may suffer no ill health from his disease but is still capable of passing it on to others . |
| 17 | On this side of the Channel , in contrast , religion still maintains its place in schools , however uneasily ; and this itself has made it easier to assume that somehow or other there will be moral teaching as well . |
| 18 | It has made it easier for participants in training courses to understand the concept of oppression , to recognize oppressive attitudes and behaviour , and to identify oppressions which may be new to them : heterosexism is often a new concept to heterosexuals . |
| 19 | Third , trade-union reforms have made it easier for firms to fire people . |
| 20 | But in the short run the part-timers and weaker unions have made it easier for firms to shed labour . |
| 21 | But the Lord has made it easier for you by giving us the lesson taught so simply and sublimely by our parents — the joy of love , that is of understanding and being understood , of giving and receiving , of sacrificing oneself to be recreated , of pouring out the treasures of one 's own heart only to find them multiplied endlessly . |
| 22 | The Australian government has made it easier to take action against the discrimination and demeaning of women by the country 's media . |
| 23 | And he points out , being private has made it easier to invest without worrying about the effect of reduced profits on the city . |
| 24 | If they had been invited it might have made it easier , since it would have allowed him to slip away unnoticed . |
| 25 | The second is that , in fact , direct democracy could be a great deal more widely practised than it actually is , and that some modern technological developments have made it easier to implement than it might have been a century ago . |
| 26 | This imbalance , in the number of sessions held by the Council compared to the Assembly , must have made it easier for the Council to usurp executive powers . |
| 27 | One important theme in the remainder of this chapter is the extent to which a modular course design has made it easier or harder to seize opportunities and work within constraints . |
| 28 | The closeness of consumer and producer has made it easier for the Registry to expect and to receive from the Computer Centre a computing service of commercial standards , especially in terms of quality and meeting deadlines . |
| 29 | Recent changes in legislation have made it easier for local authorities to promote traffic calming schemes and a significant programme for their provision has been approved by the Regional Council . |
| 30 | Since 1975 a number of sector-specific EC Directives have made it easier for professionals to practice elsewhere in the Community . |