Example sentences of "[noun sg] to make it [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | This involved changes in the refuelling system ; it was a bid to make it easier to obtain weapons-grade plutonium . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Birkdale does n't need a lot of wind to make it tough like some links courses . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll finish his bed and get him to lie on his side to make it easy for thee . |
| 7 | The house needs remedial action to make it safe , but who has to bear the cost of this work ? |
| 8 | Then Thomson bought The Times late in 1966 and poured resources into it in an attempt to make it profitable . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He seemed to know what she needed , silence , a little small talk to make it natural , transport at the door . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She answered her own question to make it easier for Clarissa 's essential information . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Ian has spent the winter season rebuilding his machine to make it one of the fastest 600s on the grid . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Five minutes later , Thame centre half , Edwards , was dismissed from the field for aiming a punch at Tony Penge ; this made Thame 's task even harder especially when Penge scored two minutes later from close range to make it two nil . |
| 23 | Mr McGill repairs a window to make it safe , paints the air raid shelter door , does some concreting in the garden . |
| 24 | Market forces are based on contract , and the proposal that I advanced would clarify the law to make it possible for people to enter into contracts , which would have the consequences that I described . |
| 25 | One of the first things that the Labour party would do would be to change the law to make it easier for trade unions to strike . |
| 26 | ‘ And shall we make it a pwethent to make it happy ? ’ |
| 27 | This is partially true , but the motivations for saying ‘ quack ’ , the kind of quack a duck makes , the social message that is being conveyed — fear , alarm , pain , surprise , contentment , ‘ Come here ’ , ‘ Go away ’ , ‘ Look what I 've found ’ — this all requires a mind behind the larynx to make it express or utter the intent and feeling within the duck 's mind , to give the quack the correct inflection and intonation . |
| 28 | Yes , erm , I had in mind that , is there a seconder to that ? my own view is that erm , and that goes for most of the way for dealing with the problem , but I think it would be appropriate for this committee to make it clear that erm , any extension of the maximum aggregate for the current financial year will be met by an appropriate reduction or a corresponding reduction in the expenditure for ninety four ninety five , erm and I 'm not certain that that 's absolutely clear to the public or indeed to all members of |
| 29 | David Curry , Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries & Food , concluded that the balance of opinion was against the regulation and significant amendments would have to be made to the proposal to make it acceptable . |
| 30 | For this reason , many recommend care at home , if local nursing and social services can give enough back-up help to make it possible . |