Example sentences of "[v-ing] to make it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , something James could not know when the season began , 1976 was going to be one of the most contentious seasons , politically and administratively , that I have ever known in the sport , and there were several times in the year when it really looked as though the fates were conspiring to make it impossible for Hunt to win . |
| 2 | We are looking to make it simple for people . ’ |
| 3 | THE visit of Cheshire Jets to Crowtree tomorrow sees Dave Elderkin 's men looking to make it three wins out of three against the league 's bottom club . |
| 4 | The clergy were going to make it impossible to find the young priest 's murderer . |
| 5 | on saving education , he said that I supposed to get the six teachers , he said I 'm gon na get rid of five he said and if I possible can I 'm going to make it four , that got ta remember those of you who are on protected salaries erm you again the pay and a half other members of staff and he said he wanted voluntary redundancies and early retirements where possible , you know , and also he had n't supposed to tell for a month so this will come out later in the year |
| 6 | I told Michael what he wanted to hear , pretty much , without actually promising anything , because I could tell he was going to make it easy for me He was falling asleep on my shoulder When he did , I slipped out from under him , picked up his sexy uniform , which did n't seem quite so sexy any more , and took his glider key off the chain Then I got dressed quick , holding the key in my teeth , and then I went over to the kite , but I must have made a noise ; because Michael woke up I looked back and saw him putting both feet in one leg of his trousers , calling my name , trying to back out of it |
| 7 | All of Bicester it seemed were there , but Kersal , clearly in athletic mood were n't going to make it easy . |
| 8 | That 's quite difficult to do because where there 's so many churches not being sure whether they 're going to make it this year how can they say what 's going to happen next year ? |
| 9 | But he thinks he 's the centre of the world and he was going to make it difficult for Angie to do what she wanted if it would affect his career . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's stopped snowing , ’ Paula remarked , ‘ but this fog is going to make it difficult for you . ’ |
| 11 | She was grateful for the air-conditioning , because she was quite well aware that her unruly emotions were going to make it difficult for her to sleep . |
| 12 | Is n't this going to make it difficult now , I mean with jobs the way they are , does this mean tat people can come in from erm E C countries and er there is no reason why they should n't be given a job erm against somebody who lives in this country ? |
| 13 | John was going to make his comforting fiction — that she had not really saved the firm , merely secured it a little earlier than the normal contracts would have saved it anyway — he was going to make it true , by ( in effect ) doctoring the books . |
| 14 | ‘ I had it all worked out what I was going to say , how I was going to make it romantic , and sensual , so that you could n't possibly turn me down . |
| 15 | Rightly so he thought sadly and I 'm going to make it worse' . |
| 16 | In Europe , pressure is growing to make it mandatory to have some form of closed transfer system for chemicals . |
| 17 | The Young Minds Information Service was launched last week , aiming to make it easier for families with troubled children or adolescents to gain access to counselling and other professional help . |
| 18 | Legent Corp is aiming to make it big in systems management . |
| 19 | failing to make it clear , if it is the case , that service is charged extra or that some other additional charge is made ; |
| 20 | It is failing to make it clear to parents that the law gives them full rights to withdraw their children from religious instruction and religious observance . |
| 21 | Yeah do you think I was doing to make it harder for you ? |
| 22 | ‘ It has taken the rise in bottled water drinking to make it practicable to sell it on its own . ’ |
| 23 | The background against which they fought was arid red desert ; they might have been fighting to make it green again ; yet one had the feeling that if either defeated the other it would be disaster . |
| 24 | Her tears were wetting his shirt and she lifted her hand , wiping at her wet cheeks and smoothing the white shirt thoughtlessly , trying to make it dry . |
| 25 | Now Claire looks straight at Keith , speaking intensely , trying to make it all real for him . |
| 26 | Like everyone else in this market , IBM is trying to make it easy for small sites to install so it comes in a wide variety of fixed configurations that encompass various Token Ring , Ethernet wide area network and SDLC attached devices . |
| 27 | It is frustrating as a producer , when you have so many ideas that are worth trying to make it better . ’ |
| 28 | He did , but ran himself out trying to make it 101 ; still a six-wicket victory all the same . |
| 29 | It was on Stephen Leacock 's advice that I tried my hand at writing humour and found it very arduous work ; writing ordinary prose was hard enough , but trying to make it funny was even harder . |
| 30 | So you could see the pattern yourself and make it easier and a lot of the time at school when the teacher 's telling you , Why do n't you do it this way ? they 're not trying to make it harder for you . |