Example sentences of "[noun] to make it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although she opened her mouth to make it quite clear to her infuriating parent that she was not , never would be , and never wanted to even think about being in love with Luke Hunter , somehow the words would n't come . |
| 2 | And any attempt to make it more effective would have been virtually impossible in political terms . |
| 3 | Alongside this professionalisation was a parallel emphasis on the spectacularisation of football — i.e. an attempt to make it more attractive and eye-catching via such devices as pre-match and half-time entertainment and the regular televising of match highlights . |
| 4 | ‘ We have a superb set , designed by a local artist , and have updated the original 50s script to make it more relevant , ’ added Tina . |
| 5 | In an exchange of letters the Polish government declared among other things that the " prospect " of Poland joining the EC " will increasingly create opportunities to make it easier also for German citizens to settle in the Republic of Poland " . |
| 6 | She got the ceiling decorated and made improvements to the entrance to make it more welcoming . |
| 7 | We can show you how to wake up ‘ lazy money ’ which is lying uninvested , and how to restructure investment to make it more productive . |
| 8 | When you have a course that works , you do n't sit back and watch the grass grow — you set to work to make it even better . |
| 9 | We were told that she set to work ‘ editing ’ the crazed philosopher 's work to make it more Nazi , and that Elisabeth had a strong and malign influence on the growth of National Socialism . |
| 10 | and we kept the homes small , about twenty in a home to make it more like home-like and not institution . |
| 11 | And B T so and Imperial who 's had a different experience to you after a takeover bid from a new employer clearly wants a legal framework , steel braces put within Trust Law to make it much more clear where power lies in th the operati operation of the trust and that possibly one one of those steel braces would the law would relate on h who could get their hands on the surplus and in what conditions . |
| 12 | The screens should be removed from the reception desk to make it more friendly and less like a bank . |
| 13 | To Sainte Colombe , music is all about sadness and loss ; he added a seventh string to his viol to make it sound more melancholy . |
| 14 | It was n't much of a fall , just one of those nippy little sprinklings that come early in the winter to make it absolutely clear that it is , well , the winter . |
| 15 | The only small mammal to make it even to the top 20 was the meerkat , cover star of our February 1987 issue and subject of Meerkats United , one of the most popular Wildlife on One programmes ever shown . |
| 16 | A plump old man sitting in a wooden scaffold on a marine building site sawed the top off an immense teak column to make it flush with the decking . |
| 17 | … ’ The implication that St Theresa reads the Scottish Catholic Observer is perhaps mischievous on my part , but it does raise the question of why the petition was not addressed to the saint directly and required publication to make it more efficacious . |
| 18 | There are several ways you can experiment with your homeloan to make it more profitable . |
| 19 | It 's very difficult for an English group to make it there , so I thought it would be nice to a French one because I quite admire that conservative spirit . |
| 20 | Paragraph seven making it clear put that an initial assessment has already established er it has already passed the preliminary assessment stage er and that er the director is undertaking the data collection procedure so that the site can be properly assessed and I do drawn er Mr attention er to that I erm have taken the opportunity during the last adjournment Chairman to speak to Mr about the appropriateness of the wording of his er er amendment and I believe that he he may wish to er move something which is slightly different er which will certainly er we 'll deal with that er if he does move that but er it clearly is the intention of this report and of the committee that when the work has been completed on the assessment of traffic calming measure in Shalford and its priority established , that we would then bring er another report er to the highways and transportation committee in response to this petition er as as indeed is set out in paragraph ten B and if Mr wished that to be brought forward through to council then that will be done but I leave to him if he wish to move an amendment to make it quite clear , since er I must say this motion is rather bland . |
| 21 | Would n't recommend masses into it , but because it 's no income potential , and it 's not that flexible , you 've got to keep it for five years to make it really work . |
| 22 | The first thing that strikes you about this program is Top Level 's evident desire to make it as friendly as possible . |
| 23 | We would like to se the political parties commiting themselves to an overhaul of the sentencing process to make it more rational and civilised . |
| 24 | I am always surprised that clubs will happily buy an expensive tractor to pull gliders back , but will not provide aids to make it all less strenuous and time-consuming . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , there 's no need to make it sound as though I 'm a plague-carrier . |
| 26 | As a county we seem to have a need to make it as hard to succeed as we can . |
| 27 | Work has since taken place to make it more secure and some Category A prisoners have gone back ; although not all . |
| 28 | Coffee was a nauseous substitute concocted from acorns ; bread had already been rationed by the beginning of 1915 to about 2 Ibs a week , and goodness knows what was added to the flour to make it so grey and gritty ! |
| 29 | It was all possible , though it took a war to make it so . |
| 30 | In proposing a cut of 10 per cent in the car tax , the society also suggested that there was a strong environmental case for reducing vehicle fuel taxation on diesel to make it significantly cheaper than petrol . |