Example sentences of "[noun] to make it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murray 's club-mate , Tom McKean , has set his store on the World Indoors but first he has a personal score to settle with his GB team-mate , David Sharpe , who pipped him on Saturday to make it 1-1 between them indoors this winter . |
| 2 | Marwood , the League 's leading scorer with 224 points , added both goals to make it 18-12 . |
| 3 | Whereas I hardly ever break a string ; I mean , you do n't have to hit your guitar with a hammer to make it sound loud . ’ |
| 4 | This involved changes in the refuelling system ; it was a bid to make it easier to obtain weapons-grade plutonium . |
| 5 | ‘ We knew Wednesday had problems at the back when long balls were played at them , so it came as no surprise when we scored on the break to make it 1–1 . ’ |
| 6 | For your first flight , choose a day with some wind to make it easier to keep the wings level and to keep the glider straight . |
| 7 | Birkdale does n't need a lot of wind to make it tough like some links courses . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll finish his bed and get him to lie on his side to make it easy for thee . |
| 9 | The lake , visidle from the house , and backed with trees and a small Greek temple , had been cleaned and drained by David Fairfax to make it fit for swimming , and a diving-board had been installed . |
| 10 | The house needs remedial action to make it safe , but who has to bear the cost of this work ? |
| 11 | And a handful of baking soda , tonight ask your Aunt Jean to make it lovely . |
| 12 | Then Thomson bought The Times late in 1966 and poured resources into it in an attempt to make it profitable . |
| 13 | His first Prayer Book was influenced by Luther ; his second more by Zwingli , in an attempt to make it acceptable to the Continental churches and enable a Reformed General Council to bring the whole of Christendom into a new and scriptural unity . |
| 14 | There are good arguments for limiting a field of study to make it manageable ; but it is also true to say that the answer to the question of what gives discourse its unity may be impossible to give without considering the world at large : the context . |
| 15 | Ok … your final task for the day is to name your ‘ brilliant ’ midfield … and we 'll have a little comparison shall we … in fact Ill use Leeds ' reserves to make it fairer . |
| 16 | He seemed to know what she needed , silence , a little small talk to make it natural , transport at the door . |
| 17 | Morris then turned provider for Colin Irwin to make it 4–1 after 51 minutes . |
| 18 | PAUL STEWART is now a 2.3 million midfield player at Liverpool but he is the first to admit it needed a referee 's red card to make it all happen . |
| 19 | ‘ We are happy to legislate on something which is already happening in the game , in other words to make it legal for the hooker to strike as soon as the ball leaves the hands of the scrum-half — as happens in reality — rather than when it pitches . |
| 20 | In the 15th over Stinson made the break-through for Armagh when he bowled Adams to make it 35 for one . |
| 21 | A Barry Lavety goal earned both points against Ayr United and enabled the Paisley club to make it tighter with the three clubs above them all dropping a point each . |
| 22 | But we need the funding to stage the kind of programme to make it significant , and to lay the groundwork for more , and longer Glasgay ! s , perhaps every second year . ’ |
| 23 | A tap-penalty try by Ian Campbell , who then kicked a penalty , put Bishops 7–0 ahead but the visitors scored a try before half-time to make it 7–4 . |
| 24 | She answered her own question to make it easier for Clarissa 's essential information . |
| 25 | Agrippina contains all the right elements to make it one of Handel 's most popular stage works . |
| 26 | As to what the hon. Gentleman said about those who worked for Karl Construction , the building firm that was decimated on Friday , let me pay here , on the Floor of the House , the most profound tribute to those in civilian employment in the Province who go to work to make it possible for the security forces to do their job . |
| 27 | Instead they relied on forcing dry wedges of wood into existing cracks in the stone and pouring water on the wood to make it swell and eventually crack the stone . |
| 28 | Setting up the program can be time-consuming — you have to back up your entire hard disk , repartition it and encrypt it — so you 'd have to have some really important data on your machine to make it worthwhile . |
| 29 | Ian has spent the winter season rebuilding his machine to make it one of the fastest 600s on the grid . |
| 30 | We could specify in which hand the draw-sheet is to be held , which arm the nurse is to use to support the patient , the degree of tension to be applied to the draw-sheet to make it taut and smooth . |