Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] it [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , it turned out to be the Newtonian theory of gravity that had to be modified to make it compatible with the invariance properties of the Maxwell theory . |
| 2 | They have had to learn to live with one another , to adjust , to get used to each other 's habits , hobbies , friends and relations — the most crucial and critical period for every newly married couple — but they have had to do it all under the full glare of the media . |
| 3 | That 's helped to make it one of the most profitable independent companies . |
| 4 | Although you will be writing a story in which a murder , or more than one murder , is the key happening , you have got to make it compatible with the humour with which you intend to infuse the whole . |
| 5 | We have tried to make it clear in the law that what we are establishing is a parallel procedure and not an exclusive procedure , so that the other law as it existed , whatever it is , still does exist today , but that here is a prescribed procedure which terminally ill patients may choose to use should they wish to do so . |
| 6 | ( The language of the extract has been modernized to render it accessible to the general reader . |
| 7 | Sufficient data stretching back to the mid-sixteenth century have now been assembled to make it possible for the first time to study short-term as well as long-term characteristics of demographic behaviour at the micro level . |