Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [adj] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We must continue to make it clear to potential aggressors , however , that we should strike back with all the means that we judge appropriate , conventional or nuclear . |
| 3 | Their progress was fast , the ground had hardened after the rains while Sir James had unfurled the royal standard of Scotland to make it obvious to any others using the road to stand aside quickly and let them pass . |
| 4 | Gaviria stated that the economy needed a " shake-up " in order to increase its size and competitiveness and to make it attractive to foreign investors . |
| 5 | Observers from Russia , Portugal ( Angola 's former colonial master ) and America , who had spent much of the six weeks drafting and redrafting endless versions of the ‘ Abidjan protocol ’ — the peace agreement that never was — worked until the last minute trying to reformulate this point to make it acceptable to both sides . |