Example sentences of "[vb past] make it a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His pen-and-ink drawings provided Minton with unrelieved amusement , as Lyttelton has recalled : Humphrey Lyttelton 's presence at Camberwell helped make it a centre for the beginnings of ‘ trad ’ , a jazz revival which replaced ‘ the polite and effete noise which had hitherto passed for genuine jazz ’ with a new vitality and energy . |
| 2 | Russia 's anti-reformist central bank , which is Sberbank 's largest shareholder , tried to make it a subsidiary earlier this year — accusing its management , paradoxically , of being too profit-conscious . |
| 3 | And the massive Independent Television outside broadcast unit ensemble helped to make it a busy day at Horsted Keynes with the Bluebell already geared up that day for the official launch of the Southern Q1 they have restored on behalf of the National Railway Museum . |
| 4 | They even had a bridesmaid , Janice MacMillan 's daughter , who helped to make it a real white wedding . |
| 5 | TWO schoolboy boxers , Joe Ainscough and Tony Maguire , helped to make it a successful night for Kirkdale ABC by outpointing their opponents , J.Addison ( Tuebrook ) and A.Khaliq ( Bradford ) respectively , at their club 's final show of the season at The Mons , Bootle . |
| 6 | Teachers Sarah , Caroline , Else and Wendy send a big ‘ Thank You ’ to everyone who supported their first ever Rally and helped to make it a big success — they are actually thinking of a second one this year ! |
| 7 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 8 | Glasgow was a unique case and a powerful argument now existed to make it a special case . |
| 9 | The staff agreed the bird was too beautiful to be thrown out and decided to make it a mascot . |
| 10 | Returning Edward the proofs of his book , Helen commented : ‘ This has indeed been a fair spring for us , though they had made it a winter . |
| 11 | But their choices remained either in the storeroom or in the window because her father had made it a rule that the window was n't to be cleared until the day before Christmas Eve . |
| 12 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
| 13 | Ever since the aborted rebel Wallaby tour to South Africa in 1987 , French had made it a personal goal to see the Springboks return to the international stage . |
| 14 | Patrick had made it a rule that he was never to be disturbed in the mornings , but that she might bring him urgent interruptions in the afternoon . |
| 15 | The world shortage and price rises had made it a rare delicacy for ordinary citizens , but David Laing liked to sip and swig constantly . |
| 16 | But there was nothing to be done ; Goibniu had made it a request that Floy and Snodgrass travel to the Fire Court leaving Fenella alone . |
| 17 | Although he had made it a condition of his NBC appearance that his whereabouts not be disclosed , Neal Miller called next day to say that he had taken over as his handler and to reprimand him for doing the broadcast without permission . |
| 18 | She had made it a habit never to leave medicines lying about since the time she found Emma sucking a Panadol , thinking it was a mint , but thankfully then having the sense to spit it out when she found it was n't . |
| 19 | Harvey said making it a one-word question . |
| 20 | Yes , y yes , you , you were , you 'd sort of passed all your exams so yo th they sort of had to make it a little bit easier . |
| 21 | He hoped to make it a fitting swan-song . |
| 22 | Established media groups like Hachette , publishers of Elle magazine , failed to make it a commercial success . |
| 23 | They wanted to make it a game to remember for their boss , for birthday boy , Glenn , but on the night , sadly , there was no icing on the Town cake . |