Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview . |
| 2 | Although I recognise that for obvious reasons the Secretary of State will not want to be locked or painted into a figure of 512 as the maximum , which is what it would be , will he tell the House whether , in the light of last week 's discussions with President Yeltsin and the changes that have taken place since Christmas , the Government are now considering the minimum deterrent to be somewhat lower than they had previously considered it necessary to be ? |
| 3 | But no , I suppose he would have considered it disloyal to the old man . |
| 4 | It 's , what they 've done is they 've closed er er , erm branch , an office massive office in London and they 've moved them all over to Leeds because they ca n't get the people to take jobs in London so they 've transferred it all to Leeds , and erm there 's a chance of erm getting promotion , well , a very good chance of getting promotion down there . |
| 5 | I 'd rather have said it all to his face ! |
| 6 | Susan could n't think of a film where he had made it alive to the end credits . |
| 7 | But the loss of military independence , industrial capacity , employment and markets that such a policy would involve has always made it unacceptable to Western European governments and electorates , including our own . |
| 8 | The lack of detail in recalls made it impossible to adequately divide information into central and peripheral , however , in the sense that most information given was related to events on the road , the information which was recalled should probably be categorized as largely central to the task of driving . |
| 9 | In a hard-hitting statement at the end of a recent workshop on ‘ Communication and Prophecy ’ , held in Harare , Zimbabwe , women from nine African countries called on the Church in Africa to ‘ re-examine its leadership structures and strategies that have made it vulnerable to manipulation by government ’ . |
| 10 | Some , no doubt , would have preferred John Cox to have ‘ made it relevant to today ’ by setting his production in contemporary Croatia , perhaps , with Kalashnikovs in place of crossbows . |
| 11 | We hope that the new course will start early in 1988 , and this has made it necessary to re-time the POTENTIAL TEACHERS ' DAY for Saturday 14 November 1987 ; see back page for details . |
| 12 | Whose age had made it sacred to the view , |
| 13 | Indeed their background as Greek intellectuals would have made it nonsensical to them to have said of a particular item in our world ( a particular human being ) that he was ‘ God ’ . |
| 14 | The Chancellor has evidently made it clear to Moscow that West Germany respects East Germany 's existence as a separate state , that it does not want to alter the present military set-up of Nato and the Warsaw Pact , and that although it aims to overcome the division of Europe , this does not also apply to the political division of Germany — at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 15 | It is now the 6th September and my visits round the Commando units 3 , 4 , 6 and 45 Royal Commando , not forgetting French Commando , have made it clear to me the large number of casualties in this campaign . |
| 16 | Three times he had made it clear to MacDonald that he did not wish to accept his resignation — on the morning of Sunday 23 August , when he told MacDonald that he would ‘ advise them ( the other two party leaders ) strongly to support ( him ) ’ ; at 10.20 p.m. on the evening of the same day , after the Cabinet meeting , when the King ‘ impressed upon the Prime Minister that he was the only man to lead the country through this crisis and hoped that he would reconsider the situation ’ ; and at the Buckingham Palace conference itself . |
| 17 | He had expressed so often the depth of his love and had made it clear to me that I had given meaning to his life . |
| 18 | ‘ The recognizable direction of social development ’ , she concluded , ‘ has made it clear to me that there is no social class in Poland that has at one and the same time both an interest in , and an ability to achieve , the restoration of Poland ’ . |
| 19 | But I am surprised your powers of observation have not already made it clear to you that he is in reality more than that . |
| 20 | Now that Hilary was three years old , Stephen had made it clear to his own mother that the necessity for her to remain at the Manor was past . |
| 21 | The accountants had made it clear to the Committee that they did not accept the findings of the DTI reports ( which formed the basis for the inquiry ) , and that documents they would need to deal further with the matter were no longer available . |
| 22 | He added that he had made it clear to the IoT that the Faculty would be willing to explore co-operation over exams , but the IoT was not interested . |
| 23 | As Niki said at the time , his Number One position ( an unofficial title , though Prost had made it clear to me , as to others , that he considered his first season at McLaren to be very much a learning process ) was under threat , and that was not a situation Niki appreciated . |
| 24 | Leigh had made it clear to Olivier during this time of her mental illness that she no longer loved him , and Olivier was well aware that his wife wanted to be with Finchie . |
| 25 | I understand Wednesday manager Trevor Francis , who rebuffed Ferguson on the phone , has made it clear to his board that should they be seduced by a new United bid , he would consider his future at the club . |
| 26 | ‘ As for the County Council 's wish for the WHR freehold , we believe the course suggested by the High Court for the Ffestiniog Trust to seek the Amending Order is the best safeguard for the future of the WHR , and we have made it clear to the Council that we would respect their wishes concerning footpaths , cycle tracks and so on . ’ |
| 27 | The scheme has made it clear to managers that the teaching contracts represent a substantial part of each hospital 's budget , and Dr Pearson says that most managers are now very anxious to work with the medical school to ensure a good service for the students . |
| 28 | The appellant , in evidence during the trial , had insisted that he had made it clear to Mr. Burt that he was not a fully qualified accountant , although he had passed some examinations . |
| 29 | I 've made it clear to Craig-Dunlop that the family does n't want her life prolonged , for religious reasons . |
| 30 | She had made it clear to the woman that she had strong Nazi sympathies , and often attempted to talk about the war in the desert , but to no avail . |