Example sentences of "[noun sg] make it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You had to go to such trouble to persuade the subject to accept the poison and when ( or rather , in his case if ) you managed it , your very intimacy made it all too clear to everyone that you were the one who was slipping them the doctored crumble , the dodgy spaghetti bolognese or the potato salad unusually rich in mineral salts . |
| 2 | The insistent demands of the computer make it hard for attention to wander , and unlike a human opponent , it can not be sidetracked , or exhausted . |
| 3 | If anything , the deepening and lengthening recession made it more rather than less unlikely that the electorate would turn to Mr Kinnock as an economic messiah . |
| 4 | Since English people are also stereotyped in Ulster in various ( usually unfavourable ) ways , it was probably equally important that my mixed , but mainly Scottish , accent made it extremely difficult for subjects to fit me into any clear popular category . |
| 5 | The hosepipe ban made it hard for Pa to water during the hours of daylight . |
| 6 | Their presence made it hard for the women to rescue the corpses of the drowned , and many bodies had to be abandoned to them . |
| 7 | Cos my Mum made it so |
| 8 | Wilcox , always one to strike while the iron was hot , signed a deal of his own with United Artists , then remade his silent film , Nell Gwynn , presumably thinking its mix of history and sexiness made it sufficiently like Korda 's hit to clean up . |
| 9 | The terms of this description make it absolutely clear that Polygnotos did not adhere to the single ground-line but placed his figures up and down the field with some rudimentary indication of setting ; and a few Athenian vases which must have been painted around the sixties show the same thing . |
| 10 | After a minimum five years ' operating experience it would be time to think about taking a few orders for commercial stations , the first of which should come on stream about 2020 — always provided , of course , that the cost and dwindling resources of uranium made it commercially worthwhile : |
| 11 | When he entered the party in 1927 , his radical , iconoclastic temperament made it relatively easy for him to align his own cultural views with those of a sectarian political group . |
| 12 | The difficulties of the student in arranging pupillage make it rather theoretical to give advice on the assumption that he can pick and choose . |
| 13 | The isolation made it virtually impossible to gain any conclusive information on the scale of the weekend violence , but a growing volume of eyewitness accounts spoke of hundreds being killed in a bloodbath at the hands of the army and secret police . |
| 14 | Having been to a coeducational school , she did not find men a novelty , and in theory ought to have been able to discriminate better than Liz ( who endured some fairly dreadful experimental evenings in her search for entertainment ) , but her natural kindness made it almost impossible for her to refuse any overture , however offensive , however louche . |
| 15 | ‘ In addition to interfering with existing contracts , ’ said Lord Reid ‘ the defendant 's action made it practically impossible for the appellants to do any new business with the barge hirers . |
| 16 | Ernest Bevin 's entry into the wartime coalition made it even less likely than before that the bulk of trade-union officials would tolerate the Communists let alone support them . |
| 17 | And , ironically again , the increasing specialization of Greek scholarship made it increasingly more problematic for German writers to draw on Greek literature and its topoi as wholeheartedly as they once had . |
| 18 | The incorporation of the French intellectual tradition and the artistic underground made it all the easier to hide the ideological background of the Socialist regime . |
| 19 | ‘ Stick on a swimsuit , and we 'll take our chances on the car making it there in one piece . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Nothing either good or bad , but thinking makes it so ’ , CS 1 . |
| 22 | THINKING MAKES IT SO |
| 23 | The fact that Treasury rules restricted past investment makes it all the more necessary now for the privatised companies to get on with it . |
| 24 | The result makes it very difficult for the Lions to win the series . |
| 25 | This uncertainty makes it particularly interesting to know whether intentionally childless women are different in personality or attitudes from those who wish to have children , and whether these attitudes could readily become more widespread . |
| 26 | If I am warned that my weight makes it highly likely that I will suffer health problems in hot climates , the probability of my being ill is reduced if I do either one of two things — lose weight and/or avoid the tropics , Thus , I have some choice about my life . |
| 27 | And any attempt to make it more effective would have been virtually impossible in political terms . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ We have a superb set , designed by a local artist , and have updated the original 50s script to make it more relevant , ’ added Tina . |
| 30 | The deal makes it almost certain that Mr Sam Nujoma , president of Swapo , will become the country 's first president . |