Example sentences of "make it [adj] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have repeatedly made it clear in the House and beyond that I am working to seek an agreement at Maastricht that will be acceptable to the House and this country . |
| 2 | Sabre Rattler , a beaten hot favourite on each of his first two starts , may make it third-time-lucky in the EBF Beckhampton Maiden Stakes ( 2.10 ) . |
| 3 | ( The secret life of the apple NI 212 ) OK , so the pear did n't make it big in the Garden of Eden but the Romans worshipped it as an aphrodisiac , and consecrated it to Venus , Goddess of Love . |
| 4 | Many of the women made it clear in the interviews that their concern is not simply to get housework done in the most efficient way and the shortest possible time . |
| 5 | The two other big diversified computer companies are Unisys Corp at $8,400m or so , and NCR Corp at $7,100m — only the same size as Apple Computer Inc , a pure personal computer play with few designs on the data centre — and if AT&T Co is really serious about making it big in the computer industry , it will soon have to start thinking of buying NCR a present — and Unisys begins to look tempting now that James Unruh has finally got the company onto an even keel and Unisys ' own mainframe millstones under control . |
| 6 | This , for a man whose entire working life had been devoted to making it big in the movies , came as a depressing , frustrating fact as he surveyed his position that year . |
| 7 | The hip could experiment and buy Coltrane , the mass market could buy Johnny Dankworth 's modern jazz pastiche , ‘ Experiments with mice ’ , in enough numbers to make it seven in the April 1956 hit parade . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He makes it clear in the dedication of the latter that voices and instruments were to be used now together , now separately ( ‘ per vocum et instrumentorum melodiam , tam conjuncte quam divisim ’ ) but not at all clear how this was to be done . |