Example sentences of "make it the " in BNC.

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1 A sense of something old , strange and eerie came over me as we passed directly below Benbulbin , that strange grey-green mountain , chief link in the chain that guarded Ulster and has made it the most separate of Irish provinces from the beginning of time .
2 Of course , being a boy made it the more difficult , it would not be as easy , but it had begun to seem to her not impossible to keep in touch with Pen wherever he was .
3 Its elasticity would have made it the ideal candidate for a trampoline-cover .
4 In per capita terms , Venezuela 's long history as an oil exporter — between 1929 and 1969 it was the world 's leading exporter — has made it the richest country in South America .
5 This has been the practice in many countries internationally , but our sudden realisation of its effectiveness in creating bilingualism has made it the major discovery in language acquisition .
6 The sheer scale of the service sector has made it the focus for attack by the proponents of the de-industrialisation thesis .
7 That was my first impression of a city whose disastrous birth rate has made it the largest in the world , a vast expanse of concentrated housing broken only by open spaces of baked earth where the wind-blown dust swirled , and far away to port the snow-capped volcanic hulks of Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl towering huge through the burnt brown atmosphere .
8 Why could n't they 've made it the Soton game ? ?
9 A tribute to the horse and people who 've made it the home of National Hunt racing .
10 All of that suggests that the sheep industry is poised to make the most of the structural accident that has made it the biggest producer of lamb in the Northern Hemisphere .
11 We will meet at Fortingall tomorrow , and let us make it the biggest meeting of all — the Glen Lyon folk will join us there , and once Breadalbane joins with Atholl , then they will know that the whole people is on thy move .
12 King Edward bent to pick it up amid suggestive laughter , declaring ‘ shame on him who thinks evil of it ’ , and prophesying that he would make it the most sought-after badge of honour in Britain .
13 Yesterday it said the issue would mature in 23 to 28 years ' time , which will make it the longest-dated gilt available in the market .
14 ‘ Shall we make it the best of three ? ’
15 On our first day we headed for that beautiful beach … but we did n't make it the temptation was too great to lounge by probably the largest and most stunning freshwater pool in the Canaries .
16 Though it says it still has $1m in the bank , it is currently out for a second round , believed to be in the neighbourhood of $4.5m , which would make it the most heavily backed venture in the field .
17 Did the salary make it the offer he could n't refuse ?
18 But clearly it is another factor that would make it the less satisfactory for us simply to refuse the application without more .
19 I mean , why , why make it the pensioners every time ?
20 Or you could make it the positive , but you ca n't have both .
21 The new machine will set you back a cool £1,700 which does n't make it the cheapest machine in the world .
22 Small but perfectly put together — that 's sassy Current Account , a compact A4 publication distributed three or four times a year to a circulation below 1,000 , which might well make it the least-read of any of the winners in the Editing for Industry competition .
23 I might as well make it the whole way .
24 The self-styled Scottish convention was self-appointed and is unrepresentative , and the introduction of tax-raising powers for Scotland would make it the highest-taxed part of the United Kingdom and would destroy and inward investment that has done so much for its standard of life .
25 This must make it the best value in multimedia ever offered to schools .
26 The less official he could make it the better .
27 Its combined output will make it the second biggest in Britain .
28 We have four players in our forward line which must make it the best in Europe , if not the world .
29 Now , Labour needs a further swing of eight per cent to be sure of an overall majority but six per cent would make it the biggest single party .
30 yes some will make it the earth , but then again some will vanish
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